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null / Credit: Ansis Klucis/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 12, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA). A “major” survey released this month by a British Catholic organization demonstrates what the group says were the “shocking” effects of COVID-19-related church closures in that country. Catholic Union, a lay organization that bills itself as “dedicated to the defense of…
Bishop-elect Juan Carlos Londoño. / Credit: Archdiocese of Quebec Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 12, 2023 / 12:15 pm (CNA). Pope Francis appointed a Colombian-born priest, Father Juan Carlos Londoño, to serve as a new auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Quebec, Canada, the Vatican announced on Tuesday. “We welcome with great joy the new auxiliary…
Cardinal-elect Víctor Manuel Fernández was appointed by Pope Francis on July 1, 2023, to become the next prefect for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. / Credit: Courtesy of Archdiocese of La Plata Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 12, 2023 / 11:36 am (CNA). Under certain circumstances, it may be permissible for a Catholic…
Credit: sfam_photo/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 12, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA). The method used by the Canadian government and several U.S. states to record assisted suicide deaths leads to incomplete statistics and less accountability, anti-euthanasia advocates said this week. The issue was thrown into sharp relief late last month when, in a Nov. 28 X…
null / Oleksandr Kniaziev / Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 12, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis received in an audience on Monday the members of the Office of the Auditor General, a Vatican body established by the Holy Father to implement some financial reforms in continuity with the work already begun by Benedict…
In an interview with “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Tracy Sabol, National Catholics Bioethics Center President Dr. Joseph Meaney discusses the first-ever therapy approved by the FDA using CRISPR, a genome editing technology. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly” CNA Newsroom, Dec 12, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). A new gene-editing therapy called Casgevy, which is designed…
Our Lady of Guadalupe. / Sacred Heart Cathedral Knoxville via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0). Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 12, 2023 / 05:00 am (CNA). On Dec. 12 we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who is the patroness of the unborn. When Our Lady appeared to St. Juan Diego nearly 500 years ago,…
The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Mexico. / David Ramos/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 12, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA). In the 500 years since Our Lady of Guadalupe — whose feast the Church celebrates Dec. 12 — appeared, the image of Our Lady has become the subject of several popular…
A sign welcoming patients from East Texas is displayed in the waiting area of the Women’s Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 15, 2022. / Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 11, 2023 / 18:15 pm (CNA). A woman who sued Texas state…
U.S. Capitol viewed through the columns of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 11, 2023 / 17:10 pm (CNA). The United States Supreme Court refused to take up a case that challenges the constitutionality of Washington’s “conversion therapy” ban for minors, which restricts what counselors can say to…
