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Notre Dame philosophy professor David Solomon. / Credit: de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame CNA Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 17:26 pm (CNA). David Solomon, a longtime professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and founder of what is now the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture,…
Chinese pilgrims attend the general audience in St. Peter’s Square, Oct. 12, 2016. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 9, 2024 / 15:07 pm (CNA). Pope Francis conveyed a “message of hope” to Chinese Catholics and expressed his desire to one day visit the Basilica of Holy Mary, the Help of Christians, in Shanghai, China,…
The Governatorato (Vatican City State Administration) building in the Vatican. / Credit: www.vaticanstate.va ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 15:37 pm (CNA). Rosario Murillo, wife of dictator Daniel Ortega and vice president of Nicaragua, announced that seven priests left the Central American country and have arrived “safely” at the Vatican. Without further explanation, Murillo…
Former seminary student Broderick Witt entered the guilty plea at Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, where he was facing multiple counts of “pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor.” / Credit: Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office CNA Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 16:07 pm (CNA). A former Catholic seminarian in Ohio pleaded guilty this week…
The Maine State House in Augusta. / Credit: Wangkun Jia/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 14:26 pm (CNA). Catholic schools will be excluded from Maine’s tuition grant program, a Maine district court affirmed on Thursday. The court ruled that while the plaintiffs “are raising important legal questions,” they are “not entitled to a preliminary…
Two vehicles for the Spanish troop within the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on the tense southern border of the country in August 2024. / Credit: Ramiz Dallah/Shutterstock ACI MENA, Aug 9, 2024 / 12:25 pm (CNA). In a stark departure from the destructive war of 2006, which had political and partly Christian…
null / Credit: melissamn|Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 13:33 pm (CNA). A consortium of investors is warning major retailers including Walmart and Costco against selling the abortion pill, arguing that it will drive away customers and bring “legal and political risk” to the businesses. The letters, distributed earlier this month and signed by…
The parade has the support of the archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Cardinal Orani João Tempesta. / Credit: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Digital, Aug 9, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The first Family Pride Parade will take place on Saturday, Aug. 10, the day before Father’s Day in Brazil,…
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), pictured in 1938-1939. / Credit: Public Domain CNA Staff, Aug 9, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Aug. 9 is the feast day of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as Edith Stein. A convert from Judaism at the age of 30, she later entered the…
St. Maximilian Kolbe (bearded, in front row, center) and his companions in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1936. / Credit: Public Domain/Courtesy of ‘Maximilian Kolbe: The Saint of Auschwitz’/Sophia Institute Press Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 9, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). When the American military dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, the…
