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null / Credit: Elliott Cowand Jr/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 18, 2023 / 15:02 pm (CNA). A proposed bill in New York state would result in Chick-fil-A being forced to leave a major highway system unless it opened on Sundays, a rule that would run afoul of the chain’s decades-old policy of closing on the Christian…
St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: vvo/Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Dec 18, 2023 / 15:22 pm (CNA). The Vatican has issued new guidance on the topic of blessings of same-sex attracted people, stating that Catholic priests can bless same-sex couples as an expression of pastoral closeness without condoning their sexual relations. The ruling, which also applies to…
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks at the USCCB fall plenary assembly Nov. 14, 2023. / Credit: USCCB video Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 18, 2023 / 12:58 pm (CNA). The U.S. bishops over the weekend renewed their call for peace in the Holy Land amid reports on Saturday that…
Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza at Christmas 2021. / Credit: Anas-Mohammed/Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Dec 18, 2023 / 10:35 am (CNA). The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has denied culpability over the deaths of two Christian Palestinian women who were reportedly killed at the Holy Family Parish complex in Gaza on Saturday morning. The Latin Patriarchate…
Jimmy Lai at a Hong Kong protest. / Credit: Courtesy of the Acton Institute CNA Staff, Dec 18, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). The trial for Jimmy Lai, the Catholic Hong Kong activist and newspaper publisher, opened Monday, launching what is expected to be a protracted legal exhibition capping several years of imprisonment for the…
Pope Francis celebrates his birthday on Dec. 17, 2023, with children and families who are assisted by the Vatican’s Santa Marta Pediatric Dispensary. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Dec 17, 2023 / 13:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis celebrated his 87th birthday on Sunday morning ahead of his weekly Angelus by meeting with children and…
Pope Francis waves to pilgrims during his Angelus address on Dec. 17, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Dec 17, 2023 / 11:20 am (CNA). In the latest sign of escalating strain between the Holy See and Israel over the mounting civilian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis after his Angelus address…
A member of the crowd in St. Peter’s Square holds up a baby Jesus figure for a blessing by Pope Francis at his Sunday Angelus Dec. 17, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Dec 17, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Pope Francis reflected on St. John the Baptist as a luminous figure who testifies…
Live Action’s new website on the development of a child through pregnancy, windowtothewomb.app. / Credit: windowtothewomb.app CNA Staff, Dec 17, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA). Have you ever wondered what it’d be like to have a window into the womb? Well, that’s exactly what the pro-life group Live Action has attempted to provide with its…
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, and Bishop Earl Fernandes. / Credit: Dennis Callahan/Archdiocese of San Francisco; Joaquin Peiro Perez/CNA; Joe Bukuras/CNA CNA Staff, Dec 17, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). Serving at the altar for Venerable Fulton J. Sheen played a major role in one U.S. cardinal’s vocational journey. For another bishop, falling to…
