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null / Nicole Glass Photography/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 26, 2023 / 12:34 pm (CNA). The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) this week acknowledged the 25th anniversary of the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), what the bishops called a “landmark” piece of legislation meant to protect the “essential and inviolable” principle of…
null / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 26, 2023 / 09:45 am (CNA). Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is suing the Biden administration in response to a federal decision to redirect millions of dollars of federal family planning funding toward Planned Parenthood in the state. Skrmetti said in a Wednesday statement that the state was…
A police officer blocks access to the road to Sparetime Recreation on Oct. 26, 2023, in Lewiston, Maine. Police are still searching for the suspect in the mass shooting, Robert Card. / Credit: Scott Eisen/Getty Images CNA Staff, Oct 26, 2023 / 09:12 am (CNA). Multiple victims were reported dead after at least two mass…
Pope Francis greets pilgrims at his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 18, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 26, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). Amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Holy Land, Pope Francis has called for a day of prayer and fasting on Friday, Oct….
Pope Francis leads the Synod delegates in prayer, Oct. 25, 2024. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 26, 2023 / 06:55 am (CNA). Pope Francis denounced clericalism and called it a “scandal” to see young priests buying lace vestments at tailor shops in a strongly-worded speech to the Synod on Synodality on Wednesday. Speaking to…
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi talks with other Synod on Synodality delegates at the general congregation assembly Oct. 9, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome, Italy, Oct 26, 2023 / 07:25 am (CNA). Pope Francis’ peace envoy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, has called Hamas “the worst enemy of the Palestinian people.” “We need a solution that guarantees the…
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, speaks to guests gathered at New Beginnings Church in the Woodlawn neighborhood on Oct. 23, 2023, in Chicago. / Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 25, 2023 / 18:10 pm (CNA). GOP presidential hopeful Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, spoke with “EWTN News Nightly” correspondent…
University of Notre Dame / Peter Zelasko/CNA CNA Staff, Oct 25, 2023 / 17:50 pm (CNA). Concerned students at the University of Notre Dame have objected to an upcoming drag show set to be held on campus as part of a one-credit course, which the university has defended as falling under academic freedom. In a…
Newly elected Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, speaks in the House chamber after his election at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 25, 2023, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 25, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). Rep. Mike Johnson, a 51-year-old Louisiana Republican, was elected Speaker of…
Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 25, 2023 / 19:00 pm (CNA). Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, the primatial archbishop of Mexico, downplayed the issues that have generated some controversy during the Synod on Synodality and believes that this assembly “will not enter into concrete proposals on these issues.”…
