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null / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 12, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has ordered the laicization of a North Dakota priest who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in that state. Diocese of Fargo Bishop John Folda said in a statement this month that former priest Neil Pfeifer “received a dispensation from the…
Injured parishioners receive Communion on the third Sunday of Advent, Dec. 17, 2023, at Holy Family Parish in Gaza. The Pontifical Collection for the Holy Land provides community aid and assistance for parochial activities for Holy Family Parish, the only Roman Catholic parish in Gaza. / Credit: Father Gabriel Romanelli/Facebook Rome Newsroom, Mar 12, 2024…
Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, chapel and statue. / Credit: Joseph Antoniello, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Mar 12, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA). Franciscan University of Steubenville has announced that Catholic writer and speaker Mary Rice Hasson will be a visiting fellow for the school’s Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life. Hasson,…
Votes are counted in Dublin, Ireland, on March 9, 2024, after voters in the country went to the polls March 8 to decide on a pair of referendums proposing wording changes to the Irish constitution aimed at reflecting secular values. / Credit: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images Dublin, Ireland, Mar 12, 2024 / 10:00 am (CNA). “The…
El Paso, Texas. / Credit: cht725/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 12, 2024 / 11:12 am (CNA). A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state attorney general’s efforts to close an El Paso-based Catholic nonprofit accused of facilitating human smuggling. El Paso County District Court Judge Francisco Dominguez ruled on Monday that Attorney General Ken Paxton…
In a speech during a meeting with Pope Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, and other Coptic Orthodox representatives on May 11, 2023, Pope Francis announced that the Coptic Orthodox martyrs killed by ISIS in 2015 will be added to the Catholic Church’s official list of saints. / Credit: Vatican…
Votes are counted in Dublin, Ireland, on March 9, 2024, after voters in the country went to the polls March 8 to decide on a pair of referendums proposing wording changes to the Irish constitution aimed at reflecting secular values. / Credit: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images Dublin, Ireland, Mar 12, 2024 / 10:00 am (CNA). “The…
Elizabeth Tabish as Mary Magdalene in Season Four of “The Chosen.” / The Chosen / Mike Kubeisy CNA Staff, Mar 12, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers about Season Four of “The Chosen.” Season Four of the hit series “The Chosen” has officially made its debut in theaters. The season focuses…
The healing of a bleeding woman, Rome, Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 12, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The book “The Example of the First Christians,” published in 2023 by the University of Navarra, examines the early followers of Jesus of Nazareth, whose lives continue to inspire…
A camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Renk, South Sudan. / Credit: Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DPIHD) ACI Africa, Mar 11, 2024 / 17:55 pm (CNA). The people of God in South Sudan are in urgent need of external support, the president of the Integral Human Development Commission of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’…
