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null / Credit: Andy – Rock News/Shutterstock Vatican City, Feb 25, 2025 / 12:45 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has named two secretaries-general to serve under Sister Raffaella Petrini, FSE, in the Governorate of the Vatican City State, giving the Vatican’s first woman president “the power to dispose and confer… specific competencies or particular tasks” on the appointees. The…

Pope Francis presides over Ash Wednesday Mass at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome on Feb. 14, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Feb 25, 2025 / 10:55 am (CNA). In his message for Lent 2025, Pope Francis emphasized the importance of living one’s life as a constant journey of conversion, choosing to…

At left, funeral of Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win (pictured at right), martyred in Myanmar on Feb. 14, 2025. / Credit: Archdiocese of Mandalay ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 25, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Two women who witnessed the murder of Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win in Myanmar last week recounted how the…

null / Credit: nito/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 25, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). A decade after euthanasia became legal in Canada, activists there say the political and cultural winds are shifting in favor of life — but there is still plenty of work to be done to roll back the country’s permissive assisted-dying regime.  In…