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null / Credit: Aquarius Studio/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 7, 2024 / 09:45 am (CNA). At or near the top of almost any Catholic parent’s list of things they want for their children is for them to continue practicing their Catholic faith into adulthood. But recent statistics paint a sobering picture: In the United States today,…
(Left to right) Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas; Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas; and Bishop Edward Weisenburger of Tucson, Arizona. / Credit: CNA file photo; Diocese of Fort Worth; CNA file photo Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 6, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sent a letter…
Lauren Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac outside the medical examiner’s office in Washington, D.C., April 8, 2022. / Katie Yoder/CNA CNA Staff, Feb 6, 2024 / 17:40 pm (CNA). The remains of five late-term aborted babies in Washington, D.C., will not be receiving an autopsy that could have determined if federal law was violated by the…
null / Credit: lunamarina/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 6, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA). A group of 90 Catholic priests, scholars, and authors are asking bishops and cardinals to reject a Vatican declaration that approved the pastoral, nonliturgical blessings of same-sex couples and to refuse to implement it within their dioceses. The coalition signed a…
Sixteen new priests were ordained Feb. 1–2, 2024, in Seoul, South Korea. / Credit: Archdiocese of Seoul ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 6, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taek of Seoul recently ordained 16 new priests and 25 new deacons for the archdiocese that will host World Youth Day 2027 in South Korea….
Pope Francis meets with the Council of Cardinals on Feb. 5, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 6, 2024 / 15:55 pm (CNA). The pope’s Council of Cardinals concluded a meeting at the Vatican this morning with Pope Francis to reflect on “the role of women in the Church.”…
A man tends to his goats in a village in Kerala, India. / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 6, 2024 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Hundreds of thousands of Indian Catholics are petitioning the government to improve living conditions there. The Syro-Malabar Catholic Congress presented Kerala state Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan with the petition late last…
Catholic pilgrims from Hong Kong came to see the pope at the welcome ceremony in Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Sept. 2, 2023. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA CNA Staff, Feb 6, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA). Freedom of religion is “deteriorating” in Hong Kong, and the United States — along with other democracies —…
Father Jude Nwachukwu (left) and Father Kenneth Kanwa were kidnapped from their parish rectory in the Diocese of Pankshin in Nigeria on Feb. 1, 2024. / Credit: Ahiara Diocese ACI Africa, Feb 6, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA). A religious missionary order in Nigeria is appealing for the safe release of two of its members…
The funeral of Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik on Jan. 31, 2024, outside the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Jai Agnish CNA Staff, Feb 6, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The tragic suicide of a beloved sheriff in a small county in…
