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Students for Life activists tabling at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Students for Life of America Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 3, 2023 / 17:01 pm (CNA). As Election Day in Ohio nears, hundreds of pro-life students from across the state are rallying to defeat the Issue 1 referendum, which would…
null / Stephen Velsaso via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0), filter added. CNA Staff, Nov 3, 2023 / 16:14 pm (CNA). Off-year elections in two Southern states are set to take place next week, with big money being spent by pro-abortion lobbies in traditionally Republican strongholds and candidates sparring with each other over abortion more than…
Aerial view of damages caused by the passage of Hurricane Otis in Guerrero State, Mexico, on Oct. 28, 2023. / Credit: RODRIGO OROPEZA/AFP via Getty Images ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 3, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). A statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, including a cloth mantle, was left intact amid the devastation caused by…
Options Students Mia Butler and Veronica Caravan with their peer mentors at an end-of-year celebration. / Credit: Irene Zaso CNA Staff, Nov 4, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA). A program found in all four high schools in the Diocese of Arlington is making an impact on students with disabilities. The Options Program is a special…
More than 40,000 young people turned out for a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin of Río Blanco and Paypaya in the northern province of Jujuy in Argentina on Oct. 27, 2023. / Credit: Bishopric of Jujuy ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 3, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). During the month of October under the…
Anya Safaryan (right), 78, who fled from Azerbaijan’s controlled region of Nagorno-Karabakh, sits on a bed at a sports complex set up as a temporary shelter in the Armenian city of Artashat on Oct. 8, 2023. / Credit: Karen Minasyan/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 4, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). The little-known…
A German bishop issued a letter Thursday asking pastors in his diocese to bless same-sex couples. Share The Pillar Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann said in the Nov. 2 letter to priests, deacons, and lay pastoral workers that the blessings — which he also extended to remarried couples — could take place in churches in the Diocese…
When the Vatican’s synod secretariat published in 2022 a “spiritual aid” for the synod on synodality — “Towards a Spirituality for Synodality” — the document, like much of the synod, became quickly a subject of debate. After the text was published, some critics went so far as to call the document, or the synod on…
As violence between Israel and Gaza continues, officials warned this week that antisemitism in the U.S. has reached “historic levels.” The U.S. bishops have condemned antisemitism repeatedly in recent years. Last November, the bishops’ Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs stressed that antisemitic actions are “even more painful in light of the Church’s relationship to…
The Communion and Liberation ecclesial movement acknowledged on Tuesday that the movement’s former U.S. leader has been accused of sexual and psychological abuse against young adults and minors, and that the movement’s officials initially failed to respond appropriately to allegations. “[W]e believe the moment has come for a more public account of a situation that…
