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The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s unicameral legislative body, located in Kiev. / Credit: Drop of Light/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2023 / 10:50 am (CNA). The Ukrainian Parliament this month advanced legislation widely seen as an attempt to ban an Orthodox church from the country over allegations that it is linked to Russia. The Verkhovna…
Pilgrims walk from Silver Spring, Maryland, to the St. John Paul II National Shrine on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023, the day before his feast day. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Saint John Paul II National Shrine Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2023 / 11:51 am (CNA). About 100 Catholics walked a 12-mile-long pilgrimage from…
Ciao amici, Greetings from Rome and the synod on synodality. We’re entering into the home stretch now, with just a few more days of deliberations, and then the votes on the synod’s interim report. At this stage, borrowing from the late Arizona congressman Morris Udall, one bishop told me that “everything’s been said already, but…
Reference image / green handkerchief used by promoters of abortion. / Credit: David Ramos/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 23, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). The Spanish Christian Lawyers Foundation has filed a complaint against a pro-abortion organization whose activists allegedly harassed the faithful who attended Mass and spray-painted offensive slogans on the walls of…
Bella Health + Wellness in Englewood, Colorado. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA Denver, Colo., Oct 23, 2023 / 18:50 pm (CNA). A Denver-area medical clinic can continue to help women reverse unwanted chemical abortions despite a state ban after a judge issued a temporary injunction Saturday. Mother and daughter Dede Chism and Abby Sinnett, nurse practitioners…
null / Credit: Yeti studio/Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Oct 23, 2023 / 17:05 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Stockton, California, has issued a warning about a pair of imposters posing as Catholic clergymen in the city of Modesto and charging high fees for blessings and sacraments. The diocese said that two unidentified men are falsely using…
The Cross of San Lázaro of Seville, Spain, sculpted in the 16th century, was vandalized on the night of Oct. 21-22, 2023. / Credit: Emergencies Seville ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 23, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). A stone cross carved in the 16th century and placed on a pedestal in a public square next to…
Australian theologian Father Ormond Rush addresses the General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 23, 2023, in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall. / Credit: Vatican Media livestream Vatican City, Oct 23, 2023 / 14:44 pm (CNA). Vatican II’s discussion of tradition is the authority for the Synod on Synodality’s reflections today, a theologian…
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, on Oct. 20, 2023. / Credit: Gianfranco Pinto Ostuni Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 23, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA). Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem, last week lamented the deaths of 18 Palestinians in a missile strike on the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Porphyrius…
Pope Francis delivers his Sunday Angelus message to about 20,000 faithful in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 22, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 22, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). During Sunday’s Angelus address, Pope Francis spoke to the faithful on the importance of the correct relationship between the Church…
