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Credit: Unsplash. / null CNA Staff, Jun 6, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA). A parish in the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, is openly promoting blessings for same-sex couples despite a Vatican directive that suggests such blessings should be “spontaneous.” Historic St. Paul Catholic Church in downtown Lexington says on its website that “same-sex couples who would like…
Bernini’s famous baldacchino in St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Ricardo André Frantz|Wikipedia|CC BY-SA 3.0 Rome Newsroom, Jun 6, 2024 / 11:52 am (CNA). The Vatican arrested a former employee in late May for attempted extortion after he sold an allegedly stolen 17th-century manuscript to the Vatican for hundreds of thousands of euros. According to the…
Bishop Jacques Habert of the Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux in France greets Britain’s Princess Anne (right) on June 5, 2024, as she arrives to attend the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s annual service of remembrance at Bayeux Cathedral in Bayeux, Normandy, northwestern France, as part of the events to mark the 80th anniversary commemorations of…
Attendance at 2024 National Youth Day in Honduras topped 30,000. / Credit: Youth Ministry of the Diocese of Danlí ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 6, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). More than 30,000 young people gathered June 1–2 in the city of Danlí, located in southeast Honduras, to participate in the Central American country’s National Youth…
U.S. assault troops in an LCVP landing craft approach Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Father Ignatius Maternowski (shown at left) died that fateful day. / Credit: Public domain/U.S. military National Catholic Register, Jun 6, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). Tens of thousands of Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944….
Rodrigo Iván Cortés, president of the National Front for the Family, described Claudia Sheinbaum’s victory as “very bad news for life, family, and freedoms.” / Credit: EWTN Noticias/Screenshot ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 5, 2024 / 18:50 pm (CNA). Various pro-life, pro-family, and lay leaders of the Catholic Church in Mexico have reacted with concern to…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, speaks during a news conference on the Right to Contraception Act outside the U.S. Capitol on June 5, 2024, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images CNA Staff, Jun 5, 2024 / 18:10 pm (CNA). The U.S. Senate has rejected the “Right to Contraception Act,” which would…
A U.S.-bound migrant carries a baby in the Darien Province in Panama, on Sept. 22, 2023. / Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 5, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA). The head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration denounced President Joe Biden’s latest executive action on…
null / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 5, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA). Archdiocese of Denver Catholic preschools will now be allowed to participate in Colorado’s universal preschool (UPK) program after a federal court ruled Tuesday that the state’s decision to exclude Catholic preschools was unconstitutional. Two Catholic parishes with preschools, St. Mary Catholic Parish…
People visit a polling station to cast their vote during the second phase of voting on April 26, 2024, in a village in Ukhrul district, Manipur, India. / Credit: Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images Bangalore, India, Jun 5, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), for the first…
