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Aerial view of tornado damage in Elkhorn, Nebraska, taken on April 29, 2024. Tornadoes ripped through the Midwest over the weekend of April 26–28, 2024. / Credit: mpi34/MediaPunch/IPX/AP Photo CNA Staff, Apr 30, 2024 / 12:15 pm (CNA). After a blockbuster night of severe weather that saw tornadoes touch down in at least six states…
Pope Francis prays during his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on April 24, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 30, 2024 / 13:00 pm (CNA). On the occasion of its first general convention taking place in Rome this week, Pope Francis has addressed a message to the…
Elevation of the chalice at a Traditional Latin Mass. / Credit: Wikimedia JoeJ10/CC BY-SA 4.0 CNA Newsroom, Apr 30, 2024 / 11:45 am (CNA). At the pinnacle of his professional sports career, one French athlete announced his intention to quit volleyball to embrace monastic life at a famous French abbey. Ludovic Duée, captain of the…
Palma il Giovane (1550-1628), “Portrait of Pope Pius V.” / Credit: Public Domain National Catholic Register, Apr 30, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). Michele Ghislieri, later St. Pius V, was born in Bosco, northern Italy, in 1504 and ordained a Dominican priest in 1528. Recognizing his holiness and learning, his community elected him prior four…
French authorities determined that “there does not appear that there is any infraction sufficiently characterized to justify any criminal procedure” against Father Matthieu Raffray. / Credit: Father Matthieu Raffray YouTube Channel / Screenshot ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 29, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). French priest Matthieu Raffray disclosed that the Paris prosecutor’s office has dismissed…
Father David Waller will become the first bishop Ordinary of the Ordinariate. / Credit: Courtesy photo / Bishop’s Conference of England and Wales National Catholic Register, Apr 29, 2024 / 18:45 pm (CNA). The Vatican has announced a new leader of the ordinariate in Great Britain. Father David Waller, 62, a parish priest and vicar…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill on April 23, 2024, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 29, 2024 / 14:30 pm (CNA). Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said that he would not advocate for a law that would restrict…
null / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 29, 2024 / 16:10 pm (CNA). A federal court has ordered the governments of North Carolina and West Virginia to provide coverage for sex-change operations in state health care plans offered to state employees and through Medicaid. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals — which has jurisdiction over…
Landscape view of Sacrofano, Italy, north of Rome. / Credit: Dmitry Taranets/Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Apr 29, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). The World Meeting of Parish Priests for the Synod opened on Monday to discuss “how to be a synodal local Church in mission,” allowing priests from around the world to discuss questions raised during…
President Joe Biden speaks during the White House Correspondents dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., on April 27, 2024. / Credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 29, 2024 / 16:52 pm (CNA). U.S. president Joe Biden has come under fire for making the sign of the cross during a…
