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A person attempts to clear away debris from a mudslide as a powerful long-duration atmospheric river storm, the second in less than a week, continues to impact Southern California on Feb. 5, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California. / Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images CNA Staff, Feb 7, 2024 / 15:15 pm (CNA). Record rainfall in Southern…
null / ivanko80/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 7, 2024 / 13:45 pm (CNA). A major medical publisher has retracted several studies that demonstrated the risks associated with using abortion pills, a move the authors are calling “baseless” and politically motivated. Sage Journals this week posted a notice on its website that it had retracted three articles from 2019,…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. / Credit: Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock Prince Albert, Canada, Feb 7, 2024 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Alberta’s proposed parental rights policy is another step in parents regaining control of their children’s education — in particular concerning a perceived overreach with gender ideology — from school bureaucrats, its supporters say. The new policy, introduced…
Pope Francis greets pilgrims at his general audience on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, at the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Feb 7, 2024 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Pope Francis this week again defended the Vatican’s controversial document authorizing blessings for same-sex couples, with the Holy Father arguing…
CRS CEO Sean Callahan visits the Holy Land. / Credit: CRS CNA Staff, Feb 7, 2024 / 11:15 am (CNA). The head of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) said a recent visit to the Holy Land showed him a region wrought by violent chaos yet filled with people with hope and resilience. Sean Callahan, the president…
When Pope Pius IX declared the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary on Dec. 8, 1854, he had a golden crown added to the mosaic of Mary, Virgin Immaculate, in the Chapel of the Choir in St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 7, 2024 / 10:30 am…
Pope Francis speaks during his general audience on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Feb 7, 2024 / 09:17 am (CNA). Pope Francis continued his general audience catechetical series on vice and virtues on Wednesday by focusing on sorrow, observing that it…
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…
