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Caravaggio’s “Conversion on the Way to Damascus,” 1601. / Credit: Caravaggio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Jan 25, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). Even those who aren’t intimately acquainted with art history may be familiar with the Baroque master Caravaggio’s dual paintings depicting the conversion of St. Paul, two of the more famous…
Archbishop of Port-au-Prince Max Leroy Mésidor. / Credit: Salesian priests of Haiti ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 24, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). The Haitian Conference of Religious (CHR) and the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince held a day of prayer, meditation, and Eucharistic adoration Jan. 24 to intercede for the release of the people kidnapped by an…
null / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 24, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA). Residents of Massachusetts and New York are being urged by pro-life leaders and Catholic bishops to raise their voices against upcoming legislation that would legalize assisted suicide. In New York, the “Medical Aid in Dying Act” would allow a terminally ill patient to…
Sculpture of St. Peter outside of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Unsplash Rome Newsroom, Jan 24, 2024 / 17:25 pm (CNA). The Vatican Court of Appeals sentenced an Italian priest to jail on Jan. 23 for “the crime of corruption of minors” relating to the sexual abuse of a fellow student at…
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley preaching during Mass in the cathedral in 2021. / Credit: Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 24, 2024 / 15:15 pm (CNA). The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review the case of an Oklahoma man on death row who may have been wrongfully convicted, a decision…
null / Image credit: ADragan/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 24, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Ohio lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to prohibit doctors from facilitating sex changes for children on Wednesday, Jan. 24, in a successful override of Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of the legislation. The bill, which will go into effect in 90 days, prohibits all “gender…
Father Rafiq Khoury at the beginning of the 2024 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity shows the first three volumes of the “ecumenical catechism” that was adopted in 2000 by public schools of the Palestinian Authority as a textbook for Christian education. / Credit: Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Jan 24, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). “To…
Ryan Realbuto, who enjoyed his time with Capuchin Franciscan Volunteer Corps, is remembered for his good heart. () / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Realbuto family National Catholic Register, Jan 24, 2024 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Volunteering to help people was a big part of who Ryan Realbuto was. He scrubbed dishes in a soup…
Pope Francis greets pilgrims at his general audience on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, at the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jan 24, 2024 / 10:55 am (CNA). During his general audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis focused on the vice of avarice, or greed, noting that the preoccupation…
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archbishop Borys Gudziak addresses the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on March 14, 2023. / Credit: Shannon Mullen/CNA CNA Staff, Jan 24, 2024 / 12:00 pm (CNA). The leader of the U.S. bishops’ domestic justice committee this week praised a pending congressional plan for an enhanced child tax credit for…
