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Pope Francis addresses members of the Apostolic Penitentiary on March 8, 2024, in the Clementine Hall in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 8, 2024 / 15:05 pm (CNA). Pope Francis in an address on Friday morning stressed the importance of confession during the season of Lent, underscoring…
Maria Steen, an Irish barrister, makes the case for rejecting proposed amendments to Ireland’s constitution. / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN News Nightly CNA Staff, Mar 8, 2024 / 15:35 pm (CNA). Voters in Ireland went to the polls today to decide on whether or not to strip from the country’s constitution recognition of the central role of…
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on March 7, 2024, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 8, 2024 / 14:05 pm (CNA). President Joe Biden on Thursday night promised to support…
Pope Francis presides over a penitential service at St. Pius V Parish in Rome on March 8, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Rome, Italy, Mar 8, 2024 / 14:35 pm (CNA). On Friday evening Pope Francis traveled out of the Vatican to hear confessions and preside over a penitential service at St. Pius V Parish…
null / Credit: Martchan/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 8, 2024 / 12:10 pm (CNA). Connecticut is the latest among several states to consider legalizing the controversial practice of “human composting,” a method of burial that the U.S. bishops have said fails to respect human remains in accordance with Catholic teaching. The measure under consideration in the…
In 2023, over half a million migrants headed toward the United States crossed the Darien Gap, the inhospitable jungle region between Colombia and Panama. / Credit: Gonzalo Bell/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 8, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The migration crisis involving hundreds of thousands of people crossing the dangerous Darien jungle en route to…
Pope Francis meets with Argentine pilgrims on Feb. 9, 2024, ahead of the historic canonization of the county’s first female saint on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Mar 8, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA). On the day before International Women’s Day, Pope Francis addressed participants of the international conference “Women…
Pope Francis delivers an address during his Wednesday general audience on Feb. 14, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Mar 7, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Economics, international relations, and other social sciences may have not existed in their contemporary form when St. Thomas Aquinas…
Pope Francis joines the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in prayer at the Vatican on March 7, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Mar 7, 2024 / 17:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis encouraged the papal commission tasked with combatting clergy abuse to move forward in their efforts to make the Church a…
St. Thomas Aquinas uttered a last prophecy and an emotional prayer before his departure to Heaven. / Credit: Renata Sedmakova – Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 7, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). March 7 marks the 750th anniversary of the death of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of Catholic education, who uttered a last…
