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The Alabama State House, located in Montgomery, Alabama. / Credit: Chris Pruitt|Wikimedia|CC BY-SA 3.0 Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 29, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA). The Alabama House overwhelmingly approved a bill on Thursday that grants immunity to in vitro fertilization (IVF) providers in cases of death or injury to unborn babies during the IVF process. …
null / Credit: Brigitte Pica2/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 29, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). The Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII (1502–1585), is used almost throughout the world and establishes that every fourth year is a leap year that has one extra day, Feb. 29. What is little known is that the Church…
Pope Francis at the Easter Vigil Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on April 8, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Feb 29, 2024 / 12:10 pm (CNA). The Vatican has released Pope Francis’ schedule for Holy Week 2024, which will include five papal liturgies, Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum, and other traditions…
Bishop Thomas Paprocki preaches the opening Mass of the Corpus Christi Priory in Springfield. / Photo credit: Diocese of Springfield ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 29, 2024 / 12:40 pm (CNA). A little-known story in the annals of the Church is that God gave St. Angelo d’Acri (1669–1739), born in a small town in southern Italy,…
A picture taken from a position in southern Israel on Feb. 29, 2024, shows smoke billowing over the Gaza Strip amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. / Credit: JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Feb 29, 2024 / 11:40 am (CNA). The Vatican has reiterated its call for the…
Blessed Rosario Livatino. / Credit: Episcopal Conference of Sicily Rome Newsroom, Feb 29, 2024 / 09:15 am (CNA). The relics of Blessed Rosario Livatino, a Catholic judge brutally killed by the Mafia in 1990, will be brought to a prison in Naples on Saturday as his relics tour the southern Italian city plagued by organized…
Both the pastor of nearby San Bernabé parish in El Escorial, Fr. Florentino de Andrés, along with the Archdiocese of Madrid, anticipate the deconsecration of the chapel as a result of the ceremony. / Credit: Zarateman/Wikimedia Commons Madrid, Spain, Feb 28, 2024 / 18:28 pm (CNA). The private Catholic chapel where two Spanish men celebrated…
Argentine President Javier Milei speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland on Feb. 24, 2024. / Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb 28, 2024 / 19:19 pm (CNA). Argentine President Javier Milei has ordered the prohibition of inclusive language by the national government, the spokesman for office of…
Father Federico Highton is one of two Argentine priests who in 2015 founded the Order of St. Elijah, whose motto is “Through my God I shall go over a wall,” which comes from Psalm 17. / Credit: Luis M. Piccinali Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb 29, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). From an undisclosed location in…
null / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 28, 2024 / 18:13 pm (CNA). Since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) are human children, debate over fertility treatment has erupted anew. Here’s everything you need to know. What is IVF? IVF is a medical procedure that fuses sperm and egg…
