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Father Mike Schmitz is the host of “The Bible in a Year” podcast produced by Ascension. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Ascension Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 11, 2024 / 09:33 am (CNA). Father Mike Schmitz’s “The Bible in 10 Minutes” has become the popular Catholic priest’s most viral video yet, garnering over 358,000 views in…

Smoke billows from the spire of Rouen Cathedral in Rouen, northern France, on July 11, 2024. / Credit: PATRICK STREIFF/AFP via Getty Images CNA Newsroom, Jul 11, 2024 / 10:10 am (CNA). Firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out on Thursday on the spire of Rouen Cathedral, a historic Gothic church in northern France. Rouen…

“Beyond Dobbs” panelists at the 2024 National Conservatism Conference on July 10, 2024, in Washington, D.C., included, left to right: Emma Waters, senior research associate at The Heritage Foundation; Mary Margaret Olohan, author and journalist at The Daily Signal; Tom McClusky, conservative policy strategist; Chad Pecknold, professor of systematic theology at The Catholic University of…

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaks during a conference on “The General State of the Birth Rate” in Rome on May 12, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 11, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). The government of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who is also president of the Council of Ministers of…

null / Credit: Ivan Galashchuk/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 11, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Catholic Church needs to be focused at the parish level to drive up plunging marriage rates among the faithful, experts say, as low marriage rates in the Church mirror the collapse of matrimony in wider society.  Catholic marriage rates dropped…