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Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. Courtesy photo. / null CNA Staff, Mar 23, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A new Catholic, osteopathic medical school that will be housed on the campus of Benedictine College hopes to open in the fall of 2027, the project’s founding president told CNA this week. Dr. George Mychaskiw, an osteopath…
Holy Week / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 23, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). A plenary indulgence is a grace granted by the Catholic Church through the merits of Jesus Christ to remove the temporal punishment due to sin. The indulgence applies to sins already forgiven. A plenary indulgence cleanses the soul as if the person…
Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales, (Kate Middleton) arrives to attend the “Together At Christmas” carol service at Westminster Abbey in London on Dec. 8, 2023. / Credit: Chris Jackson/POOL/AFP ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 22, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). The Princess of Wales, Catherine “Kate” Middleton, surprised the world on Friday by publicly announcing that…
A participant in a Women’s March event Jan. 18, 2020, in San Francisco holds a “Pass the Equal Rights Amendment” sign while marching. / Credit: Sundry Photography/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 22, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA). Nevada Judge Erika Ballou ruled this week that the state must include abortion in its Medicaid program. This ruling effectively…
null / Credit: lazyllama/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 22, 2024 / 16:27 pm (CNA). The Republican Study Committee (RSC), of which over 80% of House Republicans are members, dedicated a section of its “Fiscal Sanity to Save America” 2025 federal budget proposal to “measures designed to advance the cause of life.” Released on Wednesday, the…
Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Montana, speaks at a press conference on the debt limit and the Freedom Caucus’s plan for spending reduction at the U.S. Capitol on March 28, 2023, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 22, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Four congressmen in the conservative House Freedom Caucus…
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de l’Assomption in Cap-Haitien, Haiti / Rotorhead 30A Productions/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 22, 2024 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Amid the violence racking the country, the Haitian Bishops’ Conference has issued a letter to the faithful that recalls Isaiah’s prophecy: “No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within…
The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. / Credit: JLogan via Wikimedia/ Public Domain Rome Newsroom, Mar 22, 2024 / 10:45 am (CNA). European bishops this week called on the institutions of the European Union to embrace greater state-church dialogue and on parliamentary candidates to include Christian principles in their political programs ahead of the bloc’s…
Pope Francis on March 21, 2024, laicized Bishop Emeritus of Bruges, Belgium, Roger Vangheluwe (center), years after the former prelate admitted to repeatedly sexually abusing his nephew when the latter was a minor. / Credit: Carolus, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Rome Newsroom, Mar 22, 2024 / 09:40 am (CNA). Pope Francis has laicized…
Map of Congo. / Shutterstock ACI Africa, Mar 22, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The decision by the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to lift a 2003 ban on the death penalty is retrogressive, the local ordinary of the country’s Kinshasa Archdiocese, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, has said. In a statement issued March…
