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null / Credit: mangpor2004/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Apr 2, 2024 / 17:35 pm (CNA). The Oklahoma Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday for a case that will determine if the state can fund a Catholic charter school. The case, Drummond v. Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board, follows the board’s decision to approve St. Isidore of…
Pope Francis and Archbishop José Antonio Eguren. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 2, 2024 / 16:15 pm (CNA). The Vatican announced on Tuesday that Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop José Antonio Eguren of Piura and Tumbes, Peru. Eguren, 67, has been in charge of the Archdiocese of Piura and…
null / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 2, 2024 / 17:05 pm (CNA). Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, signed a bill that legalizes and regulates paid surrogacy in the state. Michigan will join the large majority of states in the country that permit paid surrogacy. The only remaining states to not permit paid…
Critics of the hate speech bill worry that it could criminalize the speech of people such as author J.K. Rowling, who has said that “transgender women” are not actually women. / Credit: Daniel Ogren/Wikipedia/CC BY 2.0 Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 2, 2024 / 14:45 pm (CNA). A new hate speech law that went into effect…
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, pictured here in 2014, took up his new post as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in September 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Apr 2, 2024 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The Vatican’s top doctrinal office next week will unveil a new declaration on the theme…
Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller is presented with a gift at the Sacred Covenant signing on Sunday, March 31, 2024. / Credit: Archdiocese of Vancouver CNA Staff, Apr 2, 2024 / 15:45 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Vancouver on Easter Sunday signed a “sacred covenant” pact with the Indigenous Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc government at Kamloops,…
Chef José Andrés discussing the delivery of aid to Ukraine in 2022. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 2, 2024 / 13:40 pm (CNA). Seven humanitarian aid workers with the World Central Kitchen (WCK) were killed by an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on Monday, subsequently bringing the group’s relief efforts in…
Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento, California. / Credit: Randy Miramontez/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Apr 2, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA). Following more than 250 lawsuits alleging abuse against the Diocese of Sacramento, Bishop Jaime Soto announced on Monday that the diocese will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. California’s Child Victims Act, signed in 2019…
Pope Francis greets a woman religious at a Mass on the World Day of Consecrated Life, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, on Feb. 2, 2024, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Apr 2, 2024 / 12:40 pm (CNA). Pope Francis’ prayer intention for the month…
A smoker in Leipzig, Germany. (Photo from 2018.) / Credit: Tobias Tullius / Unsplash (CC0)) CNA Newsroom, Apr 2, 2024 / 11:15 am (CNA). While Germany legalized the recreational use of cannabis on Monday, April 1, the debate over the contentious legislation is far from over. Catholic voices have raised several concerns about legalizing drug…
