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null / Credit: Pixabay CNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 18:21 pm (CNA). A priest in Florida bit the forearm of a woman he says was desecrating the Eucharist in a Communion line at church this past Sunday and has now been charged with one count of battery. Father Fidel Rodriguez, 66, admitted to police…
A moment of prayer during the procession through the narrow streets of the Christian quarter of Bab-Touma (St. Paul) in the Old City of Damascus on July 9, 2023, in celebration of the liturgical feast of the Martyrs of Damascus. / Credit: Courtesy of HS/Custody of the Holy Land Jerusalem, May 23, 2024 / 17:11…
Pope Francis speaks from the window of the Apostolic Palace on a rainy Sunday in Rome on Feb. 11, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, May 23, 2024 / 17:41 pm (CNA). Pope Francis today urged the abolition of human trafficking, “one of the most terrible scourges of our time” that disrespects and…
Blessed Carlo Acutis. / Credit: Diocese of Assisi CNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 15:21 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has recognized a second miracle attributed to the intercession of Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager who died in 2006, paving the way for him to be canonized by the Catholic Church. A gamer and computer programmer…
The Cathedral of St. Augustine in Kalamazoo, Michigan. / Credit: rossograph via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) CNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 13:38 pm (CNA). Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has released the third of seven reports on alleged sexual abuse in dioceses throughout the state. The report details “allegations of abuse that took place…
St. Vincent de Paul Church, the oldest Catholic parish church in continuous use in Baltimore, which was dedicated in 1841, is among the churches slated for closure. / Credit: Smash the Iron Cage|Wikimedia|CC BY-SA 4.0 CNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 14:08 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced this week that more than half…
A Virginia council of the Knights of Columbus will be permitted to hold its annual Memorial Day Mass on Monday, May 27, 2024, in a federal cemetery after the National Park Service (NPS) backed down and allowed the group to hold the observance. / Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images CNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 14:38…
The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. / Credit: Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity Discalced Carmelite Nuns CNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 13:04 pm (CNA). The Holy See has reinstated a Carmelite mother superior nearly a year after the bishop of Fort…
The Biden administration holds that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) can be used to require emergency room doctors to perform abortions. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 11:17 am (CNA). The Biden administration this week launched an online tool designed to allow patients to report violations of…
Israel Antiquities Authority excavation in Rahat (aerial view), May 2024. / Credit: Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority Jerusalem, May 23, 2024 / 10:31 am (CNA). Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have discovered a Byzantine-period church in the northern Negev desert with wall art displaying ships. The surprise findings were announced in a press release issued…
