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Opponents of transgender treatments on children gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 4, 2024, as justices hear oral arguments for a challenge to a Tennessee law banning transgender surgeries and hormones for minors. / Credit: Madalaine Elhabbal/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 4, 2024 / 16:10 pm (CNA)….
Zion Lutheran Church in Long Valley, New Jersey, is one of two churches that have won a victory against county officials who were excluding them from a historic preservation grant program. / Credit: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Dec 4, 2024 / 16:40 pm (CNA). Two churches in New Jersey have…
Jaime Mayor Oreja inaugurates the sixth Transatlantic Summit of the Political Network for Values held in Spain’s Senate. / Credit: Nicolás de Cárdenas/ACI Prensa Madrid, Spain, Dec 4, 2024 / 17:10 pm (CNA). “Faith is not imposed, but it doesn’t hide” is how Jaime Mayor Oreja, the driving force behind the pro-life and pro-family summit…
Pope Francis meets with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Dec. 4, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 4, 2024 / 15:10 pm (CNA). Pope Francis received the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, at the Vatican on Wednesday. The meeting, which Orbán described as “an opportunity for peace,” lasted…
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has filed a legal brief in which he argued that Missouri’s regulations on abortion providers are consistent with Amendment 3 and are justified on grounds of patient safety and informed consent. / Credit: DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images St. Louis, Mo., Dec 4, 2024 / 15:40 pm (CNA)….
Palliative care. / Credit: Photographee.eu/Shutterstock London, England, Dec 4, 2024 / 14:30 pm (CNA). The case for assisted dying rests on dangerous misconceptions about the reality of death and dying, according to leading palliative care doctors across England and Wales. Following a Westminster debate on Nov. 29 in which members of England’s Parliament (MPs) voted…
Pope Francis is shown the new popemobile, an electric Mercedes, on Dec. 4, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 4, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA). Pope Francis was handed the key to a new Mercedes-Benz “popemobile” on Wednesday by the CEO of the German luxury car brand. Ola Källenius, the…
Father Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty this week to kidnapping and raping a teenage boy in the 1970s, heading off a long-delayed trial that launched with an indictment last year. / Credit: New Orleans Police Department CNA Staff, Dec 4, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). A priest in New Orleans pleaded guilty this week to kidnapping…
Cardinals outside the Paul VI Hall. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Dec 4, 2024 / 12:30 pm (CNA). The 21 new cardinals to be created by Pope Francis at the Dec. 7 consistory reflect the pontiff’s vision for a missionary Church that reaches out to the world’s peripheries. Following the 10th consistory of his…
Pope Francis blesses a toddler during his general audience on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in St. Peter’s Square. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 4, 2024 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Pope Francis during his general audience at St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday said all evangelizing activity depends on the Holy Spirit and not on…
