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Members of the Houston-based Catholic Youth for Life carry their flag, alongside the state flag, at the 2024 Texas March for Life. / Credit: Catholic Youth for Life CNA Newsroom, Jan 31, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). With regulation of abortion expected to be on the ballot this year in various states, pro-life groups across…
Outfits worn for traditional Mexican dances. / Credit: Katherine Candler CNA Staff, Jan 31, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). Earlier this year, the United States bishops released their new National Pastoral Plan for Hispanic Ministry, with evangelization and mission topping the pastoral priorities for the country’s growing population of 30 million Latino Catholics. The rise…
St. John Bosco. / Credit: Public Domain CNA Newsroom, Jan 31, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). History notes how much the Freemasons hated St. John Bosco, the founder of the Salesians — whose feast the Church celebrates on Jan. 31 — but less known are their attempts to kill him. The two assassination attempts ordered…
Daniel Ortega. / Credit: Harold Escalona / Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 30, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Despite being persecuted by Daniel Ortega’s regime for years, “the Church is still alive in Nicaragua,” a priest from the country told ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner. The cleric, who prefers to remain anonymous for security…
Justice Christine Donohue of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered that the case, which was previously dismissed, be reargued before the state’s Commonwealth Court. / Credit: Public Domain|Wikimedia CNA Staff, Jan 30, 2024 / 17:05 pm (CNA). The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on Monday revived a 2019 lawsuit brought by a number of abortion providers in…
Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the Nigerian Diocese of Makurdi in Benue state at a breakfast at Capitol Hill organized by Aid to the Church in Need on Jan. 30, 2024. / Credit: Peter Pinedo/CNA Washington D.C., Jan 30, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of Nigeria shared details of the worsening persecution of…
null / Credit: Mehdi Kasumov/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 30, 2024 / 13:53 pm (CNA). The Catholic University of America has dismissed one of its professors for bringing an abortion advocate to class to speak to students. A Tuesday email from the school’s president, Peter Kilpatrick, obtained by CNA said that the school began an investigation…
Father Marcel Taillon, 58, has been appointed the new interim vocations director for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA. / Credit: Father Marcel Taillon CNA Staff, Jan 30, 2024 / 14:40 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, has appointed a new interim vocations director to focus on recruiting more Catholic chaplains…
The cross of the German “Synodal Way.” / Credit: Maximilian von Lachner/Synodaler Weg CNA Newsroom, Jan 30, 2024 / 10:52 am (CNA). In light of a Protestant abuse study unveiled in Germany, a Catholic lay group has called into doubt the “persistent narrative of the Synodal Way attributing systemic causes of abuse to specifically Catholic…
null / Credit: liseykina/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 30, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA). The fertility rate in Texas rose by a statistically significant amount in the wake of the state’s pro-life laws, a University of Houston study has found. Texas, which prohibits abortion except in the case of medical emergencies, was among the numerous states with “trigger…
