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University of Notre Dame / Peter Zelasko/CNA CNA Staff, Oct 25, 2023 / 17:50 pm (CNA). Concerned students at the University of Notre Dame have objected to an upcoming drag show set to be held on campus as part of a one-credit course, which the university has defended as falling under academic freedom. In a…
Newly elected Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, speaks in the House chamber after his election at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 25, 2023, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 25, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). Rep. Mike Johnson, a 51-year-old Louisiana Republican, was elected Speaker of…
Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 25, 2023 / 19:00 pm (CNA). Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, the primatial archbishop of Mexico, downplayed the issues that have generated some controversy during the Synod on Synodality and believes that this assembly “will not enter into concrete proposals on these issues.”…
Sister María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, whose religious name was María Antonia of St. Joseph. / Credit: Public domain CNA Staff, Oct 25, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA). The Vatican on Tuesday announced that Pope Francis has authorized the promulgation of a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to an 18th-century Argentinian religious sister, paving…
null / Credit: Emiliano Arruabarrena/Cathopic ACI Africa, Oct 25, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA). Tributes are pouring in for Brother Godwin Eze, a Nigerian monk who was kidnapped by Fulani bandits and brutally killed, with those who knew the monk describing him as “very prayerful” and “very easygoing young man.” Eze, a Benedictine novice, was…
Colorado State Capitol Building in Denver. / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 25, 2023 / 16:55 pm (CNA). A Christian school will be allowed to participate in Colorado’s universal preschool program after a judge ruled Oct. 20 that the state cannot discriminate against the school based on its religious beliefs about gender ideology. Colorado District…
Pope Francis on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, appointed Father Richard Laurenson as the new bishop of the Diocese of Hamilton in northern New Zealand. / Credit: New Zealand Bishops’ Conference Denver, Colo., Oct 25, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday appointed Father Richard Laurenson as the new bishop of the Diocese of…
The Diocese of Ilorin in north-central Nigeria is grieving the murder of a monk who was abducted from his monastery at Eruku earlier this month. Br. Godwin Eze’s death was confirmed by two other monks who were kidnapped with him, Anthony Eze and Peter Olarewaju. The other two monks were recently released and are currently…
Delegates to the Synod on Synodality meet in the final days of the synod, Oct. 25, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 25, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA). The Synod on Synodality has addressed the members of the Catholic Church in a letter published during the final days of the October gathering in Rome, inviting…
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Oct. 20, 2023. / Credit: Gianfranco Pinto Ostuni CNA Staff, Oct 25, 2023 / 14:45 pm (CNA). Editor’s note: Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, released a video message Oct. 25 titled “To my dear ones in Gaza,” in which he encouraged the people of war-torn…
