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null / ZouZou/shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 12:27 pm (CNA). Draft guidelines issued this week by the U.K. Department for Education (DfE) state that schools should only support student pronoun changes in rare cases and that teachers should not be forced to use the pronouns chosen by students identifying as transgender. At the…
Papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski. / lvivadm via Wikimedia (CC BY 3.0). CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 12:32 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has sent Cardinal Konrad Krajewski to the Holy Land for Christmas as his personal representative to bring solidarity to people suffering amid the war. The Polish cardinal, who serves as the papal…
People mourn outside the Charles University building following a mass shooting yesterday, on Dec. 22, 2023, in Prague, Czech Republic. Fourteen people were killed and 25 injured. Police say the gunman was a 24-year-old student at the university. / Credit: Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 11:38 am (CNA). Pope Francis offered…
On Dec. 21, leaders of the three communities responsible for the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher took part in a meeting for the presentation of the work in progress in the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in 2023. From left to right: Father Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, H. B. Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox…
Pornhub website logo. / Kate Krav-Rude/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 10:35 am (CNA). The European Union (EU) this week announced that Pornhub, along with two other high-traffic pornography sites, must comply with major age verification and safety laws passed last year by the governing body. The European Commission, which proposes and enforces laws…
Israeli Ambassador to the Holy See Raphael Schutz. רפי שוץ, CC BY-SA 3.0 / Credit: רפי שוץ|Wikimedia| CC BY-SA 3.0 Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 22, 2023 / 10:41 am (CNA). The Israeli ambassador to the Holy See accused the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem of “blood libel” for saying that two Christian women in Gaza had…
null / Credit: IgorAleks/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). Few things ignite the “culture wars” like the seemingly innocent and innocuous abbreviation “Merry Xmas.” Many, including faithful Christians, believe that the “XMas” is an attempt to de-Christianize one of Christianity’s most holy of holidays: By rendering the word “Xmas” instead of…
Scene from “It’s a Wonderful Life” / Credit: RKO Radio Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons St. Louis, Mo., Dec 22, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). Fire up your favorite streaming service, and there’s no shortage of Christmas movies for you to snuggle up with. But if you’re a Catholic parent looking for a classic…
null / Credit: Lisa Missenda/Shutterstock Denver, Colo., Dec 22, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). This year, the fourth Sunday of Advent falls on Dec. 24 — Christmas Eve. The next day is Monday, Dec. 25 — the solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord. That means the faithful must attend two Masses back to back…
Mnsgr. Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega is bishop of the Diocese of Siuna, Nicaragua. / Credit: Diocese of Siuna ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 17:15 pm (CNA). The Nicaraguan police arrested on Dec. 20 the bishop of Siuna, Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega, making him the second prelate arrested by the dictatorship headed…
