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Archbishop Samuel Aquila leads the Eucharistic procession down Colfax Avenue in Denver on June 9, 2024. / Credit: Kate Quiñones/CNA Denver, Colo., Jun 11, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). In the glaring hot sun, nearly 5,000 filled the streets of downtown Denver in a Eucharistic procession on Sunday, June 9, in what was likely the…
null / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 11, 2024 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The Massachusetts state government this week announced what it billed as a “first-in-the-nation” effort to discredit — and steer pregnant women away from — pregnancy resource centers in the state. The state’s Department of Public Health said in a press release on…
null / Credit: Pexels CNA Staff, Jun 11, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). The Catholic bishops of the United States are inviting Catholics to observe a week dedicated to prayer, reflection, and action related to religious freedom with topics such as church vandalism, blasphemy laws, and Christian persecution in India as particular areas of focus. …
Pope Francis waves to the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square to hear his Angelus address on Sunday, June 9, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jun 11, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA). The Vatican will publish a study document on papal primacy and ecumenism on Thursday that will contain proposals “for a renewed…
A man receives his ballot for the European elections in a polling station in The Hague on June 6, 2024, on the first day of the European Parliament election. / Credit: Nick Gammon/AFP via Getty Images CNA Newsroom, Jun 11, 2024 / 14:45 pm (CNA). Amid political tensions across the continent following the weekend European…
Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima speaks at a press conference at his private residence in Lilongwe on Feb. 5, 2020. / Credit: AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP via Getty Images ACI Africa, Jun 11, 2024 / 13:05 pm (CNA). Vice President Saulos Chilima of Malawi and nine others have been confirmed dead in a plane crash. President Lazarus…
Massimo Bianchi and Cristiane Murray address attendees at a June 11, 2024, Vatican press conference regarding the upcoming Vatican Observatory conference to take place June 17–24, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Jun 11, 2024 / 13:45 pm (CNA). In 1931, when astrophysicist Father Georges Lemaître proposed the Big Bang theory — the idea…
Interior view of a stained-glass window of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. / Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 11, 2024 / 12:05 pm (CNA). The U.S. Catholic bishops are expected to approve a document at their spring meeting this week that apologizes to Catholic Indigenous communities for a…
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, exit a polling booth adorned with curtains displaying the colors of the flag of France before casting their ballot for the European Parliament election at a polling station in Le Touquet, northern France, on June 9, 2024. / Credit: HANNAH MCKAY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff,…
Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda was named president of the Polish bishops’ conference on March 14, 2024. / Credit: Silar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Newsroom, Jun 11, 2024 / 09:30 am (CNA). The Polish Bishops’ Conference has issued a letter opposing a political push to legalize abortion, stressing that “no one, in the name…
