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St. Macartan’s Cathedral in the Diocese of Clogher, in Northern Ireland. Laypeople will soon preside over funerals in 12 parishes in the diocese due to a shortage of priests. / Credit: JohnArmagh|Wikipedia|CC BY-SA 3.0 CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA). More than 40 laymen and laywomen in the Diocese of Clogher in…
Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu. / Credit: Alan Holdren/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 19, 2023 / 10:15 am (CNA). The trial of Cardinal Angelo Becciu ended Dec. 16 with the prelate being convicted of embezzlement and sentenced by the Vatican court to more than five years in prison. The sentence states that he has also been permanently…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media on the opening day of the winter session of the Parliament, at Parliament House, New Delhi, India, Dec. 4, 2023. / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 19, 2023 / 10:45 am (CNA). A religious freedom watchdog is urging the Biden administration to add the government of…
John Kirby, coordinator of the National Security Council for Strategic Communications at the White House. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly” Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 19, 2023 / 09:41 am (CNA). White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday that though the administration “raised specific concerns” about the reported killing of two…
Father Paul Sullins, PhD, is a senior research associate at the Ruth Institute and a retired professor of sociology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. / Credit: The Ruth Institute CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). A widely-cited study purporting to show a link between the controversial practice of…
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops meets for its fall plenary assembly meeting Nov. 14, 2023, in Baltimore. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 18, 2023 / 18:20 pm (CNA). A Vatican-issued declaration on blessing “same-sex couples” and couples in other “irregular situations” does not change the Catholic Church’s teaching that marriage…
St. Januarius and the miracle of the liquefaction of his blood contained in a relic. / Credit: Wikipedia ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 18, 2023 / 18:40 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Naples, Italy, announced that the miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius was repeated Saturday at the end of a Mass…
Roman Catholic Church of Holy Family in Gaza City. / Credit: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 18, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem reported Dec. 16 that an Israeli sniper killed two members of Holy Family Parish, the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip. Vatican News…
Hong Kong media tycoon and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai. / Napa Institute. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 18, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA). A congressional commission is urging the United States government to sanction Hong Kong prosecutors and judges if they fail to release Catholic pro-democracy activist and journalist Jimmy Lai, who is on trial…
null / Credit: Elliott Cowand Jr/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 18, 2023 / 15:02 pm (CNA). A proposed bill in New York state would result in Chick-fil-A being forced to leave a major highway system unless it opened on Sundays, a rule that would run afoul of the chain’s decades-old policy of closing on the Christian…
