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Groups of migrants wait outside the Migrant Resource Center to receive food from San Antonio Catholic Charities on Sept. 19, 2022, in San Antonio, Texas. / Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 19, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Antonio is denying recent accusations that it misused…
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, was tabbed as the next chair of the Committee for Religious Liberty on Nov. 16, 2022, in Baltimore. / Credit: Shannon Mullen/CNA CNA Staff, Apr 19, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on Friday criticized a new rule from the…
null / Credit: Peter Hermes Furian via Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 19, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) on April 19 condemned the kidnapping and murder of a catechist in Burkina Faso, West Africa. In a news brief, ACN informed ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news…
null / Credit: Dzelat/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Apr 19, 2024 / 12:30 pm (CNA). The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating what it says have been multiple threats made against houses of worship, religious schools, and other institutions — including Catholic ones — in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania local media had reported on the alleged threats made earlier in…
Worcester, Massachusetts, is home to Clark University, Assumption University, and Worcester State University. / Credit: Shutterstock Boston, Mass., Apr 19, 2024 / 11:50 am (CNA). Mary Jane Rein decided to leave her job as executive director of the Holocaust studies center at the secular Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, in hopes of finding a “warmer welcome” at…
Pope Francis addresses the faithful at his Wednesday general audience on March 27, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Apr 19, 2024 / 10:07 am (CNA). In the latest move in Pope Francis’ reform of the Vatican judiciary, the pope issued a new motu proprio on Friday on the retirement age and benefits for…
Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski of Krakow announced on April 14, 2024, the decision to begin the process of beatification and canonization of Helena Agnieszka Kmiec, a young lay missionary murdered in Bolivia in 2017. / Credit: The Helena Kmiec Foundation ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 19, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski of Krakow, Poland,…
null / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 18, 2024 / 17:55 pm (CNA). Scotland’s only gender clinic for minors is formally pausing the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone medications that are designed to facilitate gender transitions for children after a review commissioned by the English government questioned the efficacy of those practices. This announcement effectively ends…
null / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 18, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Planned Parenthood’s latest report reveals that the abortion giant performed its highest-ever number of abortions the year Roe v. Wade was overturned. Released on Tuesday, the 2022-2023 report, titled “Above & Beyond,” shows that Planned Parenthood performed 392,715 abortions between Oct. 1,…
Father Marko Rupnik. / Credit: Screen shot/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 18, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). Father Marko Rupnik, a priest dismissed from the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 2023 — accused since 2018 of having committed serious sexual, spiritual, and psychological abuse against at least 20 women in the Loyola Community that…
