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English actress and international disability rights activist Liz Carr, who produced and stars in the 2024 BBC documentary “Better Off Dead?”, speaks in the U.S. Congress on Sept. 18, 2024. / Credit: Ken Oliver-Méndez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 23, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Last week, the first screening in the U.S. of the BBC…
Unlike their counterparts in Colorado, California’s Catholic bishops’ conference has not taken a position on the proposed state constitutional amendment that would repeal a 2008 state constitutional amendment that defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman. / Credit: Christopher Padalinski, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Denver, Colo., Sep 23, 2024…
Pope Francis addresses the faithful during second vespers on the feast of Our Lady of the Snows at the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Aug. 5, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Sep 23, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis canceled his meetings on Monday due to suffering from symptoms of a…
Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia (center), at his blessing of Mary’s Comfort maternity home on Aug. 9, 2024. More maternity homes are popping up across the United States to house and support pregnant mothers and their babies since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022. / Credit: Mary’s Comfort…
Pope Francis waves from a window of the Apostolic Palace at the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his weekly Angelus address on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media. Vatican City, Sep 22, 2024 / 09:25 am (CNA). On Sunday, Pope Francis recalled Jesus’ teaching that true power is found by taking…
null / Credit: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock ACI Africa, Sep 22, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Members of the African Synodal Digital Youth Influencers who graduated recently from the African Digital Faith Influencers Formation program of the Pan African Catholic Theology and Pastoral Network (PACTPAN) were told to “brace for the challenges that lie ahead of [them] in…
null / Credit: txking/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Sep 21, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). Pro-life advocates have seen significant gains in rolling back the death penalty in states around the country in recent years. A smaller but still determined band of activists and policymakers, meanwhile, is hoping for a similar victory at the federal level. The…
Priests and deacons of the Society of St. Pius X walk to Mass in Econe, western Switzerland, on June 29, 2009. / Credit: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Sep 21, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). A group of Carmelite nuns in Arlington, Texas, announced this month that they would henceforth associate with the…
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich (right), relator general of Synod on Synodality, speaks to the media on June 20, 2023, at the temporary headquarters of the Holy See Press Office in Vatican City. Beside him is Cardinal Mario Grech, the secretary general for the Synod of Bishops. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Sep 21, 2024 /…
Pope Francis meets with priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Dehonians) on June 27, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Sep 21, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Seventy-one years ago, on Sept. 21, 1953, a young Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s priestly vocation was born. He would enter the novitiate of the…
