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Pope Francis presides over a penitential service at St. Pius V Parish in Rome on March 8, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Rome, Italy, Mar 8, 2024 / 14:35 pm (CNA). On Friday evening Pope Francis traveled out of the Vatican to hear confessions and preside over a penitential service at St. Pius V Parish…
null / Credit: Martchan/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 8, 2024 / 12:10 pm (CNA). Connecticut is the latest among several states to consider legalizing the controversial practice of “human composting,” a method of burial that the U.S. bishops have said fails to respect human remains in accordance with Catholic teaching. The measure under consideration in the…
In 2023, over half a million migrants headed toward the United States crossed the Darien Gap, the inhospitable jungle region between Colombia and Panama. / Credit: Gonzalo Bell/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 8, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The migration crisis involving hundreds of thousands of people crossing the dangerous Darien jungle en route to…
Pope Francis meets with Argentine pilgrims on Feb. 9, 2024, ahead of the historic canonization of the county’s first female saint on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Mar 8, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). On the day before International Women’s Day, Pope Francis addressed participants of the international conference “Women…
Pope Francis delivers an address during his Wednesday general audience on Feb. 14, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Mar 7, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Economics, international relations, and other social sciences may have not existed in their contemporary form when St. Thomas Aquinas…
Pope Francis joines the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in prayer at the Vatican on March 7, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Mar 7, 2024 / 17:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis encouraged the papal commission tasked with combatting clergy abuse to move forward in their efforts to make the Church a…
St. Thomas Aquinas uttered a last prophecy and an emotional prayer before his departure to Heaven. / Credit: Renata Sedmakova – Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 7, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). March 7 marks the 750th anniversary of the death of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of Catholic education, who uttered a last…
Four of the six priests who regularly appear in “The Sacristy of the Vendée” program on YouTube. / Credit: Screenshot/Sacristy of the Vendée ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 7, 2024 / 17:05 pm (CNA). Father Francisco José Delgado, a Spanish priest who hosts “La Sacristía de la Vendée” (“The Sacristy of the Vendée”) program on YouTube,…
The priest impersonator enters American Martyrs Church in Queens, New York, on March 3, 2024. / Credit: Diocese of Brooklyn CNA Staff, Mar 7, 2024 / 15:20 pm (CNA). A scam artist who impersonated a priest across multiple U.S. states recently targeted a Catholic church in New York City, managing to steal nearly $1,000, according…
null / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 7, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, signed legislation that grants immunity to clinics when they “damage” or cause the “death” of human embryonic life in the process of providing in vitro fertilization (IVF) fertility treatments to women. Although the deaths of human embryos are an…
