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null / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 9, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA). Advocates of assisted suicide in Canada are preparing to sue a Catholic hospital over its refusal to take part in the deliberate ending of patients’ lives. Activists with Dying with Dignity Canada are helping mount a lawsuit against St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver…
null / Credit: sfam_photo/Shutterstock Toronto, Canada, Feb 9, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Health and mental health ministers in three Canadian territories and five provinces were successful in getting Canada’s government to indefinitely pause implementing medical assistance in dying (MAID). But the pause does not mean a permanent halt to the plan. Implementing the expansion…
A still from Hallow’s Super Bowl commercial airing Feb. 11, 2024. / Credit: Hallow CNA Staff, Feb 9, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Catholic prayer app Hallow announced that its first-ever Super Bowl commercial will air during the big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, Feb. 11. “Our…
Bishop William Byrne of the Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts, gives the keynote address at the 2024 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Feb. 8, 2024. / Credit: EWTN Washington D.C., Feb 8, 2024 / 17:45 pm (CNA). Speakers at this year’s National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., highlighted the joy and sacrifice of…
Archbishop Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva of Buenos Aires, Argentina. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 8, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA). On Sunday, Feb. 11, Pope Francis will raise to the altars the woman who will become Argentina’s first female saint, Mama Antula — also known as María Antonia of St. Joseph…
null / Credit: Bill Perry/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 8, 2024 / 17:10 pm (CNA). A religious community of 14 Discalced Carmelite nuns has moved from a busy street in Buffalo, New York, where their order has lived for more than a century, to the Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida, in pursuit of “silence and solitude.”…
null / Credit: Robert Kneschke/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 8, 2024 / 15:45 pm (CNA). In a Feb. 7 ruling, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador decriminalized euthanasia in response to the lawsuit filed by Paola Roldán, a woman who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an incurable degenerative disease. “The Constitutional Court has put itself…
Florida Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” host Tracy Sabol on Florida’s proposed abortion amendment Feb. 6, 2024. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly” CNA Staff, Feb 8, 2024 / 13:15 pm (CNA). A proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution at dispute before the state Supreme Court would give “unscrupulous” abortion providers free…
Pope Francis addressed members of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on Thursday morning, Feb. 8, 2024, to discuss the importance of liturgical reform as a core feature of the broader “renewal of the Church.” / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Feb 8, 2024 / 11:45 am (CNA). Pope Francis…
Talitha Kum members hold a sculpture of St. Josephine Bakhita in St. Peter’s Square on Feb. 6, 2022. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Feb 8, 2024 / 12:15 pm (CNA). On the 10th International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking, Pope Francis urged people to take concrete actions to “combat this global…
