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The moment a man tries to steal a consecrated Host in Honduras. / Credit: Facebook Canal 16 Ocatepeque/Screenshot ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 19, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A priest prevented a man from taking off with an unconsumed consecrated Host after approaching to receive Communion during the Mass for the second anniversary of the…
A confirmation Mass is held at St. Mary’s Parish on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024, in Franklin, Massachusetts. / Credit: St. Mary’s Parish CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2024 / 05:15 am (CNA). The Diocese of Baton Rouge announced it would be lowering its confirmation age, just days after the Diocese of Salt Lake City shared it…
null / sfam_photo/Shutterstock. CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2024 / 04:44 am (CNA). The Canadian government is actively soliciting citizen input for a proposal to legalize “advance requests” in which citizens can pre-arrange to be euthanized at a time when they are unable to consent to the procedure. The country’s federal government is inviting citizens to…
St. Januarius and the miracle of the liquefaction of his blood contained in a relic. / Credit: Louis Finson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Photo2023, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Madrid, Spain, Dec 18, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). The faithful of the city of Naples in Italy experienced profound relief when they witnessed…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives for meetings at the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Dec. 16, 2024 in Washington, DC. / Credit: Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 18, 2024 / 17:50 pm (CNA). Robert F. Kennedy…
The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments, dating from 300 to 800 A.D. was sold at Sotheby’s auction house on Dec. 18, 2024, in New York City. Expected to sell for $1-2 million, it went for $5.04 million. Inscribed with the commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script, the tablet was discovered during railroad excavations…
Father Roger Landry. / Credit: EWTN News/Screenshot Boston, Mass., Dec 18, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). Father Roger Landry is now Monsignor Roger Landry — but he says he’s not ready to abandon the title “Father” anytime soon. Monsignor Landry, 54, the incoming national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States and…
U.S. Supreme Court. / Credit: PT Hamilton/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 18, 2024 / 16:50 pm (CNA). The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a six-year-old case about whether South Carolina can prevent Medicaid funds from covering non-abortion services at Planned Parenthood facilities and other abortion clinics. On Wednesday, the justices announced they would take…
Pope Francis speaks to pilgrims gathered in the Paul VI Audience Hall for his general audience on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 18, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday prayed especially for Cyclone Chido victims in the French territory of Mayotte during his…
Pope Francis speaks with young men during a general audience. / Credit: Vatican Media Madrid, Spain, Dec 18, 2024 / 10:15 am (CNA). In a message addressed to young people entering the workforce, Pope Francis, alluding to bosses, advised them not to “give in to requests that humiliate you or cause you discomfort, to ways…
