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A bridge over the Mississippi River near St. Louis. / Credit: Checubus/Shutterstock St. Louis, Mo., Jun 18, 2024 / 16:15 pm (CNA). A pro-abortion lawsuit filed by a number of religious leaders in Missouri was thrown out after a judge ruled that the state’s pro-life laws do not infringe on Missourians’ freedom of religion. In…
Hundreds of Catholics participate in Eucharistic procession in the Brookline neighborhood of Pittsburgh. / Credit: Tyler Arnold/CNA Pittsburgh, Pa., Jun 18, 2024 / 15:15 pm (CNA). As hundreds of Catholic pilgrims processed through the streets of Pittsburgh as part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, some of the faithful saw the procession as an opportunity to…
null / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 18, 2024 / 15:45 pm (CNA). A federal court on Monday protected the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) from a new federal abortion rule as litigation over the directive plays out in court. The USCCB will not be “forced to support employee abortions against their religious beliefs” while a…
Archbishop-elect Benjamin Phiri of the newly erected Archdiocese of Ndola in Zambia. / Credit: Archdiocese of Ndola ACI Africa, Jun 18, 2024 / 14:45 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has erected the Archdiocese of Ndola in Zambia and appointed Bishop Benjamin Phiri as its first archbishop. The southern African nation has had two metropolitan sees —…
Pro-life activists chant during a Celebrate Life Day Rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the first anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2023, in Washington, D.C. / Credit Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 18, 2024 / 12:12 pm (CNA). With the second anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s…
null / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 18, 2024 / 13:15 pm (CNA). A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a new Biden Title IX rule in six states that included “gender identity” in Title IX’s long-standing protection against discrimination by sex. “There are two sexes: male and female,” began Chief Judge Danny Reeves of the…
Photograph of Father Luis María Roma, SJ, in the auditorium of the John XXIII boarding school in Cochabamba, Bolivia, the place where another Jesuit priest, Alfonso Pedrajas (“Padre Pica”) allegedly committed most of his abuse of minors. This image was taken there in October 2023. / Credit: Andrés Henríquez/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 18,…
The sisters Madeleine and Marie-Liesse together with Louis Antona at the entrance of Greece. The three young people covered the distance from Paris to Jerusalem on foot, arriving in mid-May 2024. “I needed to walk 4,500 kilometers to understand that Jesus is not just in Jerusalem, but was by my side every step of the…
Migrants mostly form Central America wait in line to cross the border at the Gateway International Bridge into the U.S. from Matamoros, Mexico, to Brownsville, Texas, on June 4, 2024. / Credit: CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 17, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). As Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is threatening…
null / Credit: Declausura Foundation ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 17, 2024 / 17:15 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Burgos in Spain has granted an extension to the Poor Clares of Belorado, giving them a new deadline of Friday, June 21, to appear before an ecclesiastical tribunal and retract their formal declaration that they are leaving…
