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Pope Francis delivers an address during his Wednesday general audience on Feb. 14, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Mar 7, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Economics, international relations, and other social sciences may have not existed in their contemporary form when St. Thomas Aquinas…

Pope Francis joines the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in prayer at the Vatican on March 7, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Mar 7, 2024 / 17:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis encouraged the papal commission tasked with combatting clergy abuse to move forward in their efforts to make the Church a…

St. Thomas Aquinas uttered a last prophecy and an emotional prayer before his departure to Heaven. / Credit: Renata Sedmakova – Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 7, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). March 7 marks the 750th anniversary of the death of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of Catholic education, who uttered a last…

Four of the six priests who regularly appear in “The Sacristy of the Vendée” program on YouTube. / Credit: Screenshot/Sacristy of the Vendée ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 7, 2024 / 17:05 pm (CNA). Father Francisco José Delgado, a Spanish priest who hosts “La Sacristía de la Vendée” (“The Sacristy of the Vendée”) program on YouTube,…

The priest impersonator enters American Martyrs Church in Queens, New York, on March 3, 2024. / Credit: Diocese of Brooklyn CNA Staff, Mar 7, 2024 / 15:20 pm (CNA). A scam artist who impersonated a priest across multiple U.S. states recently targeted a Catholic church in New York City, managing to steal nearly $1,000, according…

null / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 7, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, signed legislation that grants immunity to clinics when they “damage” or cause the “death” of human embryonic life in the process of providing in vitro fertilization (IVF) fertility treatments to women. Although the deaths of human embryos are an…