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Argentine President Javier Milei and Pope Francis. / Credit: Vox Spain/Flickr and Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 29, 2024 / 18:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis confirmed that he will meet with the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, who will be attending the canonization of Blessed María Antonia of St. Joseph — also known…
Eduardo Verástegui. / Credit: Facebook of Eduardo Verástegui ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 29, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Jan. 6 was the deadline for Mexican actor and producer Eduardo Verástegui to collect the necessary signatures to run as an independent candidate for the president of Mexico in the 2024 elections. With just 154,826 validated signatures…
President Recep Erdogan in 2020 converted the former Byzantine church, the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque. / Credit: Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton, Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED CNA Staff, Jan 29, 2024 / 17:50 pm (CNA). Terrorists stormed a Catholic church during Mass on Sunday in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person by shooting him in…
Pope Francis meets with members of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 29, 2024 / 14:40 pm (CNA). Pope Francis suggested that the opposition to the Vatican’s approval of nonliturgical blessings for same-sex couples mostly comes from “small…
Quebec Cardinal Gérald Lacroix speaks at the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 7, 2021. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 29, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA). Cardinal Gerald Lacroix, head of the Archdiocese of Quebec, has temporarily stepped aside from his duties as archbishop after being accused in a lawsuit of sexual…
The Vatican announced the erection of the Weifang diocese on Jan. 29, 2024, the day of the consecration of the diocese’s first bishop, Bishop Anthony Sun Venjun. / Credit: Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association Rome Newsroom, Jan 29, 2024 / 13:40 pm (CNA). The Vatican announced Monday that Pope Francis has created a “new” diocese in…
null / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 29, 2024 / 14:10 pm (CNA). A highly publicized study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that estimated there have been 64,565 pregnancies resulting from rape in states with near-total abortion bans has raised questions about its methodology since its publication last week. The study’s lead researcher…
Turkish police stand guard outside the scene of an armed attack at a Catholic church in Istanbul, Turkey, on Jan. 28, 2024. / Credit: Rudolf Gehrig/EWTN Rome Newsroom, Jan 29, 2024 / 07:27 am (CNA). The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on a Catholic church in Istanbul during Sunday Mass that…
Father J.J. Mech, rector of the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit, stands next to the life-sized statues of the apostles that have now been installed in the cathedral’s worship space, along with first-class relics of each apostle. The “Journey with the Saints” pilgrimage, which will be dedicated Feb. 8, 2024, in a…
Teacher Rose Dussault reads aloud to pre-K students at St. Benedict Classical Academy in Natick, Massachusetts. / Credit: George Martell CNA Staff, Jan 29, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). The 50th anniversary of National Catholic Schools Week kicked off this week, celebrating the more than 5,200 Catholic grade schools in the country that educate more…
