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From the Netflix documentary series, “Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi” / Netflix Rome Newsroom, Nov 10, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA). The Italian Senate voted nearly unanimously on Thursday to launch a new parliamentary inquiry into the 40-year-old cold case of the disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi, who lived in Vatican City, as…
Migrants take a rest while taking part in a caravan toward the border with the United States in Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico, on Oct. 31, 2023. / Credit: ISAAC GUZMAN/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 10, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA). The U.S. bishops’ migration committee, headed by Bishop Mark Seitz of El…
Since the Vatican financial scandal began making headlines in 2018, businessman Raffaele Mincione has found himself the focus of international media attention, of conspiracy theories, and of six legal cases, in five countries. For the Anglo-Italian investment manager who sold a London building to the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, the transaction has become truly the…
The fresco of St. Leo the Great, doctor of the Church, in the cupola of the Church of St. Maximus of Turin, Italy. / Credit: Renata Sedmakova/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 10, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Throughout the last two millennia, the Catholic Church has only granted the title “doctor of the Church” to…
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley. / null CNA Staff, Nov 10, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA). A state board in Oklahoma this week narrowly recommended clemency for a man convicted of a double murder more than 20 years ago, a decision that Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City urged the state governor to accept. Coakley thanked…
null / Credit: Hostage and Missing Families Forum CNA Staff, Nov 10, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). The mother of a hostage held by the Palestinian terror group Hamas has expressed thanks to Pope Francis for his efforts to free the hundreds of innocent people who were abducted from Israel on Oct. 7. In a…
Happy Friday, friends, Before we get started: JD and I will be in Baltimore for the USCCB meeting next week and hosting a live taping of The Pillar Podcast at Todd Conner’s bar, Wednesday, Nov. 15, starting at 7 p.m — brought to you by the University of Dallas. If you are in the neighborhood,…
The Vatican Museums. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Nov 10, 2023 / 09:23 am (CNA). The Vatican Museums have announced a series of novelties beginning both this month and after the new year, in anticipation of the 2025 Jubilee Year. Beginning Nov. 17, the Vatican Museums will open an additional entrance every Friday and…
Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil in Iraq. / Credit: ACN ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 9, 2023 / 18:40 pm (CNA). Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda recently expressed his concern to the papal foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that the war being fought between Israel and Hamas could spread throughout the Middle East….
Sen. Joe Manchin. / Credit: Vasilis Asvestas/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 9, 2023 / 17:06 pm (CNA). West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, the last centrist Catholic Democrat in the U.S. Senate, announced Thursday he isn’t running for reelection next year. “I have made one of the toughest decisions of my life and decided that I will…
