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The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, with a capacity of 6,000 in its upper church, was standing room only for the National Prayer Vigil for Life in 2024. / Credit: Photo by Joe Bukuras/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 27, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). The U.S. bishops are calling on faithful Catholics across…
A sign hangs above a Planned Parenthood clinic on May 18, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois. / Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images CNA Staff, Nov 27, 2024 / 05:30 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life related policy developments in the United States. Lawmakers ask for investigation into abortion funding More than 100 members of Congress asked the Government Accountability…
Black smoke billows over the city after drone strikes in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Sept. 19, 2023, amid Russia’s military invasion on Ukraine. Drones attacked Ukraine’s western city of Lviv early on Sept. 19, and explosions rang out, causing a warehouse fire and wounding at least one person. / Credit: YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP…
Pope Francis waves to pilgrims at his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 26, 2024 / 14:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Monday clarified that the final Synod on Synodality document — which calls for structural changes, including more lay and…
Facade of St. Peter’s Basilica / Credit: Nils Huber / Unsplash Vatican City, Nov 26, 2024 / 12:40 pm (CNA). The Vatican may make “spiritual abuse” a formalized crime in Church law, rather than merely an aggravating circumstance of other crimes. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) is forming a working group…
null / Credit: RasyidArt, Shutterstock. CNA Staff, Nov 26, 2024 / 13:07 pm (CNA). The superintendent of a Wisconsin Catholic school system has been fired along with a high school principal after officials there reportedly found violations of diocesan safe environment protocols meant to protect children from sexual abuse. Kate Heim, the interim president of…
The late Monsignor Thomas Oleghe, the oldest priest in Nigeria, who died on the feast of Christ the King, Nov. 24, at the age of 104. / Credit: Diocese of Auchi ACI Africa, Nov 26, 2024 / 11:19 am (CNA). Father Thomas Oleghe, the oldest priest in Nigeria has passed away at the age of…
Georgetown University, located in Washington, DC, is the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. / Credit: Rob Crandall, Shutterstock. CNA Staff, Nov 26, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). When Georgetown Law student Brittany Lovely, who is scheduled to give birth in December, shortly before final exams, asked for permission to take her test early, late,…
Credit: Panelists at the 2024 International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit on Jan. 30-31, 2024 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. Credit: IRF Summit. / Credit: International Religious Freedom Summit CNA Staff, Nov 26, 2024 / 05:30 am (CNA). The annual International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit in Washington, DC, brings together more than 90 religious…
Nov. 25 marked the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Argentina and Chile, a treaty that was mediated by Pope St. John Paul II. Pope Francis is shown here speaking at the event. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 25, 2024 / 17:40 pm (CNA). Pope Francis presided over a…
