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Edoardo Santini. / Credit: Instagram/Edoardo Santini ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 18:10 pm (CNA). Young Edoardo Santini, considered “the most handsome man in Italy,” has decided to leave his promising career as a model and enter a seminary to become a priest. Dancer, swimmer, actor — these were a few of the dreams…
A sonogram picture in the second trimester of a woman’s pregnancy. / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 16:45 pm (CNA). A Wisconsin circuit court judge has affirmed her earlier ruling that an 1840s law protecting unborn children does not outlaw abortion. Dane County Circuit Court Judge Diane Schlipper wrote in her Dec….
null / Credit: Guy J. Sagi/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 7, 2023 / 15:05 pm (CNA). Four congregations of Catholic religious sisters filed a lawsuit against the gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson on Tuesday, accusing the company of participating in illegal marketing tactics that they said attract a “dangerous category of consumers” and facilitate “an…
null / Chinnapong / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA). In addition to social and cultural trends affecting marriage and birth rates, new findings from a meta-analysis released last month found “evidence of an association” between exposure to some insecticides and “lower sperm concentration in adults” — a sign that commonly-used…
null / felipe caparros/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 14:05 pm (CNA). New data indicates that a majority of U.S. states are shifting away from imposing the death penalty on prisoners, with few states this year ordering death sentences and even fewer carrying executions out. Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN), a group that works “to end…
Cardinal George Alencherry preaches at St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica, Ernakulam, India, on Palm Sunday 2021. / Credit: Esthappanos Bar Geevarghese via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 14:35 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignation of Major Archbishop Cardinal George Alencherry of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, based in India,…
Pope Francis greets members of Italy’s National Association of St. Paul on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 6, 2023 / 11:16 am (CNA). Pope Francis had seven meetings Thursday morning where he read out three speeches unassisted for the first time in nearly two weeks. The pope, who has…
Republican presidential candidates (left to right) former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy participate in the NewsNation Republican Presidential Primary Debate at the University of Alabama Moody Music Hall on Dec. 6, 2023, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. / Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom,…
Spanish protesters show their rosaries in Spain in protest against the action of the police on Nov. 28, 2023. / Credit: Nicolás de Cárdenas/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). On Dec. 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception — the patroness of Spain — hundreds of Spaniards will gather…
Pope Francis at the general audience at the Vatican on Dec. 6, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News Vatican City, Dec 7, 2023 / 10:45 am (CNA). Pope Francis’ council of cardinal advisers heard testimonies from two female theology professors who spoke about the role of women in the Church. The Holy See press office…
