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null / Credit: Video_Creative/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 25, 2024 / 10:30 am (CNA). The implementation of assisted suicide will “save” the Canadian health care system between $34.7 and $136.8 million per year, a new report published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal claims. The report, titled “Cost analysis of medical assistance in dying in…
People walk by the entrance of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Anne in Port-au-Prince, Jan. 22, 2024. Eight people, including six nuns, were kidnapped Jan. 19 in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, according to the country’s association of religious orders, amid an ongoing upswing in abductions. / Credit: RICHARD PIERRIN/AFP via Getty Images Rome Newsroom, Jan…
Cardinal Joseph Zen preaches a sermon during a Mass at the Holy Cross Church on May 24, 2022, in Hong Kong, China. / Anthony Kwan/Getty Images Rome Newsroom, Jan 25, 2024 / 08:30 am (CNA). Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun said Pope Francis’ recent declaration allowing the blessing of same-sex couples under certain conditions “creates confusion”…
Caravaggio’s “Conversion on the Way to Damascus,” 1601. / Credit: Caravaggio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Jan 25, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). Even those who aren’t intimately acquainted with art history may be familiar with the Baroque master Caravaggio’s dual paintings depicting the conversion of St. Paul, two of the more famous…
Archbishop of Port-au-Prince Max Leroy Mésidor. / Credit: Salesian priests of Haiti ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 24, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). The Haitian Conference of Religious (CHR) and the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince held a day of prayer, meditation, and Eucharistic adoration Jan. 24 to intercede for the release of the people kidnapped by an…
null / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 24, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA). Residents of Massachusetts and New York are being urged by pro-life leaders and Catholic bishops to raise their voices against upcoming legislation that would legalize assisted suicide. In New York, the “Medical Aid in Dying Act” would allow a terminally ill patient to…
Sculpture of St. Peter outside of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Unsplash Rome Newsroom, Jan 24, 2024 / 17:25 pm (CNA). The Vatican Court of Appeals sentenced an Italian priest to jail on Jan. 23 for “the crime of corruption of minors” relating to the sexual abuse of a fellow student at…
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley preaching during Mass in the cathedral in 2021. / Credit: Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 24, 2024 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review the case of an Oklahoma man on death row who may have been wrongfully convicted, a decision…
null / Image credit: ADragan/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 24, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Ohio lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to prohibit doctors from facilitating sex changes for children on Wednesday, Jan. 24, in a successful override of Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of the legislation. The bill, which will go into effect in 90 days, prohibits all “gender…
Father Rafiq Khoury at the beginning of the 2024 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity shows the first three volumes of the “ecumenical catechism” that was adopted in 2000 by public schools of the Palestinian Authority as a textbook for Christian education. / Credit: Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Jan 24, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). “To…
