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null / Credit: txking/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 17, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). Opponents of the death penalty in the United States are celebrating a milestone as the country marks the 200th death row exoneree in roughly 50 years and more states continue to abolish capital punishment. Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN), which advocates ending capital…
Matt Maher performs at SiriusXM Studios on Nov. 1, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee. / Credit: Jason Kempin/Getty Images for SiriusXM CNA Staff, Jul 17, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). More than 50,000 people will gather in Indianapolis this week for the National Eucharistic Congress, the culmination of the multiyear National Eucharistic Revival. The goal of…
A participant in the OneLife rally in Los Angeles on Jan. 23, 2016. / Credit: Courtesy of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 16, 2024 / 17:20 pm (CNA). More than 100 Senate and House Republicans are demanding answers after a leaked photo of an Army briefing at Fort Liberty, North Carolina,…
Christina Wheatley, a cancer survivor, in front of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Indianapolis, where a welcome Mass was held July 16, 2024, to kick off the National Eucharistic Congress. / Credit: Zelda Caldwell/CNA Indianapolis, Ind., Jul 16, 2024 / 17:50 pm (CNA). “We are being sent forth on mission to make Christ…
Elevation of the chalice at a Traditional Latin Mass. / Credit: Wikimedia JoeJ10/CC BY-SA 4.0 Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 16, 2024 / 16:20 pm (CNA). As worries mount over a possible ban against the Traditional Latin Mass, prominent Catholic and non-Catholic artists, activists, and leaders have come together in a letter to urge Pope Francis…
Father Marko Rupnik, SJ. / Credit: Vatican News/Screenshot ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 16, 2024 / 16:50 pm (CNA). Father Marko Ivan Rupnik is a former Jesuit priest whose artwork decorates Catholic churches, chapels, and shrines around the world, including the Redemptoris Mater chapel in the Vatican and the major seminary of Rome. He is accused…
This photo taken on Jan. 15, 2024, shows a Chinese flag fluttering below a cross on a Christian church in Pingtan in China’s southeast Fujian province. / Credit: GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Jul 16, 2024 / 14:50 pm (CNA). The popular U.S.-based Catholic app Hallow has been removed from the Apple App…
null / Credit: Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 16, 2024 / 15:20 pm (CNA). A federal appeals court this week refused to reinstate federal family planning grants to Oklahoma after the state refused to provide abortion referrals in its family planning services. The state in November filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of…
Michigan State Capitol Building in Lansing, Michigan. / Credit: John McLenaghan/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 16, 2024 / 15:50 pm (CNA). Catholic counselors filed a federal lawsuit on Friday against Michigan’s broad ban on so-called “conversion therapy” for minors, saying the law limits their ability to counsel children struggling with their gender identity. The Michigan law,…
null / Credit: ArtOlympic/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 16, 2024 / 14:20 pm (CNA). A suspect in a vandalism incident at a New York City parish has been charged with a hate crime after beheading a statue of the Christ Child in Queens. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a press release on her website…
