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null / Credit: PUWADON SANG/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 14, 2025 / 14:45 pm (CNA). Catholic leaders have voiced support for a bill that would establish a federal tax credit to expand school choice in K–12 education. If passed, the Educational Choices for Children Act (ECCA), introduced at the end of January during National School Choice…
null / Credit: LookerStudio/Shutterstock Vatican City, Feb 14, 2025 / 15:15 pm (CNA). Pope Francis’ adviser on artificial intelligence (AI) warned of the risks of the new technology, saying that its unregulated use could result in the creation of bioweapons as well as an increase in income inequality. Father Paolo Benanti discussed ethical and human…
Syrian refugees in the Bekaa valley of Lebanon in 2018. / Credit: Melkite Greek Archeparchy of Furzol, Zahle and the Bekaa CNA Staff, Feb 14, 2025 / 14:00 pm (CNA). A major global Catholic aid group says the recent funding cuts at the U.S. government will not affect its globe-spanning ministries in India, Africa, and…
Pope Francis greets members of the Gaudium Et Spes Foundation at the Vatican on Feb. 14, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Feb 14, 2025 / 12:35 pm (CNA). Catholic leaders across the U.S. and the world united in prayer Friday for Pope Francis after it was reported the 88-year-old had been hospitalized with bronchitis. The…
U.S. Border czar Tom Homan defends the morality of the Trump administration’s enforcement policies on “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” on Feb. 13, 2025. / Credit: “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo”/Screenshot CNA Staff, Feb 14, 2025 / 09:15 am (CNA). Addressing concerns raised by Pope Francis about the U.S. government’s initiation of a…
A photograph shows an outside view of the Gemelli hospital in Rome on June 8, 2023. / Credit: ALBERTO PIZZOLI / Getty Vatican City, Feb 14, 2025 / 06:05 am (CNA). Pope Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Friday to undergo testing and treatment for bronchitis, the Vatican said. The 88-year-old pope was…
Sts. Cyril and Methodius. / Credit: Self-scanned, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Feb 14, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA). On Feb. 14, the universal Church honors brothers Sts. Cyril and Methodius, who are called the “Apostles of the Slavs” for their tireless work in spreading the Gospel throughout Eastern Europe in the ninth…
The skull of St. Valentine is kept in the Greek-Catholic Church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome. / Credit: nomadFra/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 14, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). In most stores in the weeks leading up to St. Valentine’s Day, you’re likely to find a plethora of pink-and-red cards, heart-shaped boxes of Russell…
null / Credit: Mehdi Kasumov/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 13, 2025 / 17:15 pm (CNA). The Catholic University of America announced that it has earned the R1 designation for institutes with the “highest levels of research activity,” according to Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education, which grants the status. “Being named an R1 institution…
null / Credit: Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 13, 2025 / 17:35 pm (CNA). A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order barring transgender medical surgeries and interventions for individuals under the age of 19. The move comes after a group of seven families with transgender-identifying children filed a lawsuit…
