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‘Immaculate Conception’ by Peter Paul Rubens, circa 1628. / null CNA Newsroom, Dec 8, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). While the dogma of the Immaculate Conception would not be proclaimed until 1854, the Church in Spain had long venerated Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception. In 1585, a miracle attributed to the Immaculate Conception allowed the Spanish…
Procession from Saint-Jean Cathedral to Fourvière Basilica in Lyon, France, on Dec. 8, 2022. / Credit: Diocèse de Lyon Paris, France, Dec 8, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA). Every year, the city of Lyon in southeastern France celebrates the “Festival of Lights” on Dec. 8, the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. With numerous events, including…
Silvio Alvarado with his wife, Paulina, and their two children. / Credit: Courtesy of Silvio Alvarado and Paulina Oña ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). In the midst of the public debate over the possible decriminalization of euthanasia in Ecuador, a Christian man who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has…
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a memorandum in 2022 announcing that the department would provide paid leave and reimbursement for travel expenses for service members who seek to obtain an abortion. / Credit: U.S. Secretary of Defense|Wikipedia|CC Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 7, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA). The House and Senate reached a compromise version…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned Texas hospitals that despite a Dec. 7, 2023, court ruling that a woman could have a legal abortion, hospitals involved may be persecuted for violating the state’s law. / Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 7, 2023 / 17:50 pm (CNA). Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned three…
Edoardo Santini. / Credit: Instagram/Edoardo Santini ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 18:10 pm (CNA). Young Edoardo Santini, considered “the most handsome man in Italy,” has decided to leave his promising career as a model and enter a seminary to become a priest. Dancer, swimmer, actor — these were a few of the dreams…
A sonogram picture in the second trimester of a woman’s pregnancy. / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 16:45 pm (CNA). A Wisconsin circuit court judge has affirmed her earlier ruling that an 1840s law protecting unborn children does not outlaw abortion. Dane County Circuit Court Judge Diane Schlipper wrote in her Dec….
null / Credit: Guy J. Sagi/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 7, 2023 / 15:05 pm (CNA). Four congregations of Catholic religious sisters filed a lawsuit against the gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson on Tuesday, accusing the company of participating in illegal marketing tactics that they said attract a “dangerous category of consumers” and facilitate “an…
null / Chinnapong / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA). In addition to social and cultural trends affecting marriage and birth rates, new findings from a meta-analysis released last month found “evidence of an association” between exposure to some insecticides and “lower sperm concentration in adults” — a sign that commonly-used…
null / felipe caparros/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 14:05 pm (CNA). New data indicates that a majority of U.S. states are shifting away from imposing the death penalty on prisoners, with few states this year ordering death sentences and even fewer carrying executions out. Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN), a group that works “to end…
