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The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Andrea Izzotti/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 1, 2025 / 14:17 pm (CNA). Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” budget measure, including a provision to defund Planned Parenthood for a year, which pro-life advocates are lauding as a “major step” toward permanently defunding the…
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar. / Credit: François-Régis Salefran CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Vatican City, Jul 1, 2025 / 14:47 pm (CNA). The leader of Africa’s Catholic bishops pushed back Tuesday on the narrative that it was only Africans who objected to a 2023 Vatican declaration…
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Confessional. / Credit: AS photo studio/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 1, 2025 / 13:17 pm (CNA). The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, representing over 500 Roman Catholic priests and deacons from the U.S., Australia, and the United Kingdom, has issued a statement defending the inviolability of the seal of confession. The statement was released on June 27,…
Auxiliary Bishop Mark Rivituso of St. Louis blesses donations in a van used during the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in July 2024. On July 1, 2025, Pope Leo XIV appointed Rivituso archbishop of Mobile, Alabama. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA Vatican City, Jul 1, 2025 / 13:47 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Mark Rivituso,…
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The icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa is displayed at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Sunday, June 29, 2025. / Credit: Courtesy of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 1, 2025 / 12:07 pm (CNA). More than 1,000 Catholics with Polish roots gathered…
Multiple advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against Colorado on June 30, 2025, claiming its assisted suicide law unconstitutionally discriminates against disabled people. / Credit: Patrick Thomas/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 1, 2025 / 11:36 am (CNA). A coalition of advocacy groups is suing the state of Colorado over its assisted suicide law, claiming the statute is…
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