Category: Church News

null / Credit: ADragan/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 10, 2024 / 11:50 am (CNA). Nearly 150 Catholic hospitals across the United States provided children with transgender drugs or performed gender-transition surgeries on them between 2019 and 2023, contradicting Church teaching and the U.S. bishops’ prohibition on Catholic health care providers offering such interventions, according to…

German film score composer and record producer Hans Zimmer performs during the “Hans Zimmer Live North American Tour 2024” at Scotiabank Arena on Sept. 19, 2024, in Toronto. / Credit: Mathew Tsang/Getty Images Vatican City, Oct 10, 2024 / 09:15 am (CNA). The Vatican announced Thursday that Oscar-winning film composer Hans Zimmer will conduct a…

Lia Garcia, director of Hispanic Ministry at the Archdiocese of Baltimore, speaks at a panel discussion exploring the impact of U.S. Latinos on the 2024 election hosted by Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. / Credit: Georgetown University/Art Pittman Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 10, 2024 /…

null / Credit: Pavel1964/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 9, 2024 / 16:10 pm (CNA). A United Nations report on violence against women and girls in sports defended spaces for women on Tuesday by calling for separate sports for biological males who identify as “transgender persons.” The United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls in a presentation…

Anti-death penalty activists, including members of MoveOn.org and other advocacy groups, rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip on Sept. 29, 2015, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Larry French/Getty Images for MoveOn.org CNA Staff, Oct 9, 2024 / 15:05 pm (CNA). The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments…

null / Credit: Billy Hathorn, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 CNA Staff, Oct 9, 2024 / 13:35 pm (CNA). The Vatican has authorized the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to remove a priest from the clerical state after an investigation found he sexually assaulted two children years ago. Martin Boylan “has been dismissed from the clerical state…

Bishop Michael Martin prays with victims of Hurricane Helene while surveying storm damage at Swannanoa, North Carolina, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. / Credit: Diocese of Charlotte CNA Staff, Oct 9, 2024 / 14:05 pm (CNA). Charlotte Bishop Michael Martin recently toured several locations in his diocese ravaged by last month’s Hurricane Helene, offering spiritual and material…

The Vatican has announced that the completed restorations on the soaring baldacchino over the central altar of St. Peter’s Basilica designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini will be unveiled on Oct. 27, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 9, 2024 / 14:35 pm (CNA). The Vatican has announced that the completed restorations on the…

Maureen McKinley helps her children through some study exercises in her family’s dining room in Phoenix. McKinley and her husband, Matt, home-school their five children and offer the older children a curriculum that includes Latin. / Credit: Jake Kelly CNA Staff, Oct 9, 2024 / 12:35 pm (CNA). Home schooling continues to grow even as…

Pope Francis during the weekly general audience at St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 9, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 9, 2024 / 13:05 pm (CNA). In the first general audience since the opening of the second session of the Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis on Wednesday told pilgrims that Catholics should be…