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Pope Francis with Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago on Sept. 2, 2015. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 20, 2024 / 14:35 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has appointed five new auxiliary bishops for the Archdiocese of Chicago and assigned each bishop-elect a titular see in the Middle East and North Africa region, Cardinal Christophe…
CatholicVote president Brian Burch appears on “EWTN News Nightly” on Jan. 9, 2024. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly” screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 20, 2024 / 15:05 pm (CNA). President-elect Donald Trump selected CatholicVote president and co-founder Brian Burch to serve as the United States ambassador to the Holy See, he announced on Truth Social Friday afternoon….
Christmas lights line a street in Rome, Italy, Dec. 17, 2024. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Rome Newsroom, Dec 20, 2024 / 13:35 pm (CNA). Rome during the Christmas season is a feast for the senses. Twinkling lights drape over the city’s cobblestone streets, towering Christmas trees adorn piazzas, and Nativity scenes beckon from churches and…
Archpriest of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral Monsignor Olivier Ribadeau Dumas blesses a Nativity scene in the recently reopened cathedral on Dec. 20, 2024, in Paris. / Credit: Kiran Ridley/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 20, 2024 / 14:05 pm (CNA). The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has blessed the Nativity scene at the…
null / Credit: pim pic/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 20, 2024 / 12:15 pm (CNA). Many women who undergo chemical abortions experience more pain than they were prepared for and more than 40% go through “severe” pain, according to a peer-reviewed study of British women conducted by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS). The study,…
Bishop Gregory Kelly. / Credit: Scott Wagner Photo LLC, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Dec 20, 2024 / 12:45 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has appointed a new bishop to lead the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, more than a year after the Holy See removed its Bishop Joseph Strickland amid questions over management…
Nigerian Christian mother of five Rhoda Jatau was acquitted of blasphemy charges after a two-and-a-half-year legal battle. / Credit: Photo courtesy of ADF International Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 20, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). A Nigerian Christian mother of five has been fully acquitted of “blasphemy” charges after a two-and-a-half-year legal battle. A judge in…
Pope Francis meets with U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday, June 14, 2024, after a session at the G7 summit, which is being held June 13–15 in the southern Italian region of Puglia. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2024 / 19:45 pm (CNA). U.S. President Joe Biden accepted an invitation to visit…
An FBI agent stands outside the Houck residence in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 23, 2022. Mark Houck was arrested that day and charged with assaulting a Planned Parenthood escort outside an Philadelphia abortion clinic on Oct. 13, 2021. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Houck family Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 19, 2024 / 17:35 pm…
null / Credit: RasyidArt/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 19, 2024 / 15:55 pm (CNA). A school district in Ohio must pay a teacher a $450,000 settlement after it forced her to resign for refusing to participate in the “social transition” of minor students. Attorneys representing Ohio teacher Vivian Geraghty at the legal group Alliance Defending…
