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null / Bumble Dee / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 15, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA). A group of nearly 30 U.S. senators this week called on the Biden administration to rescind the Department of Defense’s controversial policy that authorizes the payment of travel expenses for service members and their families seeking abortions. In October of…
Father Isaac Thomas Hecker founded the Paulist Fathers in New York City in 1858. / Credit: Paulist Fathers Baltimore, Md., Nov 15, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA). The U.S. bishops voted Tuesday to advance the cause of beatification and canonization of Servant of God Isaac Thomas Hecker, a 19th-century American priest who founded the Missionary…
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has called for a national response to combat growing Masonic membership in the Philippines in a note published Wednesday. The note, signed by the dicastery’s prefect Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández and Pope Francis, said it is “necessary to put in place a coordinated strategy among the individual…
The U.S. bishops on Wednesday approved an “introductory note” to give voting guidance to Catholics, which included the passage of a last-minute amendment emphasizing that opposing abortion is the preeminent priority for the bishops’ conference. Share The measure was approved at the fall gathering of the U.S. bishops’ conference, held in Baltimore, with no floor…
Pope Francis addresses pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday general audience on Nov. 15, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 15, 2023 / 11:03 am (CNA). Pope Francis said Wednesday that Christians who are always resentful and full of complaints are not credible witnesses to the Gospel because joy is an…
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, meets with reporters in Baltimore on Nov. 15, 2022. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA Baltimore, Md., Nov 14, 2023 / 15:03 pm (CNA). The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Archbishop Timothy Broglio, on Tuesday called on Israel to pursue negotiations…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. / Credit: Flickr of La Moncloa – Government of Spain (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 15, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA). Several Spanish bishops have spoken out in recent days against the deals reached by President Pedro Sánchez with the leaders behind the secessionist coup d’état that took…
Father Iván Montelongo, a priest from the Diocese of El Paso, Texas; Bishop Daniel Flores of the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas; and Bishop Kevin Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort Wayne/South Bend, Indiana, discuss the Synod on Synodality at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall meeting in Baltimore on Nov. 14, 2023. / Credit:…
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) issued warnings on Nov. 14, 2023, of a potential humanitarian crisis in Ghana after a “devastating” flood in the southeastern part of the country. / Credit: IAWGE (Inter-Agency Working Group on Emergency) CNA Staff, Nov 15, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is warning of a potential humanitarian…
At their fall plenary assembly this week, the U.S. bishops held a consultative vote to advance the beatification cause of Servant of God Isaac Thomas Hecker, who founded the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, better known as the Paulists. Presenting to his fellow bishops, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York called Hecker’s life…
