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Father Roger Landry. / Credit: EWTN News/Screenshot Boston, Mass., Dec 18, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). Father Roger Landry is now Monsignor Roger Landry — but he says he’s not ready to abandon the title “Father” anytime soon. Monsignor Landry, 54, the incoming national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States and…
U.S. Supreme Court. / Credit: PT Hamilton/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 18, 2024 / 16:50 pm (CNA). The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a six-year-old case about whether South Carolina can prevent Medicaid funds from covering non-abortion services at Planned Parenthood facilities and other abortion clinics. On Wednesday, the justices announced they would take…
Pope Francis speaks to pilgrims gathered in the Paul VI Audience Hall for his general audience on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 18, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday prayed especially for Cyclone Chido victims in the French territory of Mayotte during his…
Pope Francis speaks with young men during a general audience. / Credit: Vatican Media Madrid, Spain, Dec 18, 2024 / 10:15 am (CNA). In a message addressed to young people entering the workforce, Pope Francis, alluding to bosses, advised them not to “give in to requests that humiliate you or cause you discomfort, to ways…
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the Vatican’s current doctrinal chief and principal drafter of ‘Fiducia Supplicans,’ is shown during the Synod on Synodality at the Vatican, Oct. 9, 2023. / Credit: Edward Pentin / National Catholic Register National Catholic Register, Dec 18, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA). Around this time last year, a Vatican document authorizing…
Blessed Martyrs of Compiègne were guillotined for their faith on July 17, 1794. / Photo illustration. Vatican City, Dec 18, 2024 / 11:17 am (CNA). Pope Francis has officially declared the 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns of Compiègne, executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, as saints through the rare procedure of “equipollent…
St. Nicholas, by Jaroslav Čermák (1831-1878). / Credit: Galerie Art Praha via Wikimedia (public domain) CNA Staff, Dec 18, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). After years of excavation work, the leader of an archeological expedition at the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, announced this week that her team has found a sarcophagus that…
null / Credit: udra11/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 18, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). Wednesday, Dec. 18, is a special day in the Catholic Church, though relatively few Catholics probably realize it. This Wednesday — along with the following Friday and Saturday, Dec. 20 and 21 — is an ember day, a day traditionally set aside…
Pope Francis meets political authorities, civil leaders, and diplomats in the Republican Palace in Baghdad on March 5, 2021. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI MENA, Dec 17, 2024 / 16:10 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has revealed that he narrowly escaped two attempts on his life during his visit to Iraq in March 2021 in the…
An Ontario judge has acquitted Linda Gibbons, a 76-year-old Christian grandmother and pro-life activist who was charged with protesting within an “buffer zone” outside an abortion clinic. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Campaign Life Coalition CNA Staff, Dec 17, 2024 / 16:40 pm (CNA). Here’s a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related updates. Ontario judge…
