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Eucharistic Adoration at Lucas Oil Stadium during the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, Indiana. July 17-21,2024. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA CNA Newsroom, Jul 27, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). The National Eucharistic Congress which gathered more than 50,000 Catholics together last week in Indianapolis was “powerful,” “moving,” and filled with “extraordinary reverence,” according to…

A picture taken on March 27, 2019, shows a scaffold during the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral in Paris. / Credit: LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Jul 27, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). The city of Paris is hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics beginning July 26 through Aug. 11. More than 10,000…

Seminarians and their teachers at St. Augustine Major Seminary in Jos, Nigeria. / Credit: Father Peter Hassan ACI Africa, Jul 27, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). Seminarians in Africa are not allowed “to be themselves” and must find ways “to get by,” a Catholic priest from Nigeria has said, challenging institutions that form future priests…

In reparation for the blasphemy, Bishop Donald Hying of Madison, Wisconsin, called on Catholics to “fast and pray, renew our devotion to the Eucharist, the Sacred Heart and the Virgin Mary.” / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly” / Screenshot CNA Newsroom, Jul 27, 2024 / 01:17 am (CNA). A drag queen-led parody of the Last Supper…

First row (L-R) Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, and Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina. Bottom row (L-R) Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain/Official Photo National Catholic Register, Jul 26, 2024 / 16:45…

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Russian Orthodox Church Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev during a state ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on September 22, 2016. / Credit: Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images CNA Staff, Jul 26, 2024 / 17:15 pm (CNA). Russian Orthodox Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev of Budapest-Hungary has been temporarily suspended following…

Norwegian players Christian Sorum (L), Anders Mol (2ndL) and Australian players Zachery Schubert (2ndR) and Thomas Hodges (R) take part in a practice session ahead of the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Eiffel Tower Stadium in Paris on July 24, 2024. / Credit: ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images Vatican City, Jul…

The motto of the modern Olympic Games, “Faster, Higher, Stronger,” was coined by French Dominican friar Louis Henri Didon. / Credit: Pixabay / Public Domain ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 26, 2024 / 17:45 pm (CNA). The motto of the modern Olympic Games, “Faster, Higher, Stronger,” was coined by French Dominican friar Louis Henri Didon, who…

Omaha Archbishop George Lucas in a 2011 photo. / null Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 26, 2024 / 15:40 pm (CNA). Omaha Archbishop George Lucas has categorically denied accusations that he sexually abused two minors several decades ago while he was dean of education at St. Louis Preparatory Seminary in Missouri. Lucas is one of several…

null / Credit: Brian A Jackson / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 26, 2024 / 16:15 pm (CNA). The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of the legality of a law that restricts abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy and prohibits doctors from performing sex change surgeries on minors, which allows both rules…