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St. James Cathedral in Seattle. / Credit: DarrylBrooks/Shutterstock CNA Staff, May 10, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA). Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson this week announced legal action against the Archdiocese of Seattle over what the prosecutor said was a refusal to cooperate with the state’s ongoing investigation into an alleged cover-up of clergy abuse there.  Ferguson’s office said in…

Pope Francis greets a young girl at a conference on Friday, May 10, 2024, on the state of birth rates in Italy and the wider West at the Auditorium della Conciliazione in Rome. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, May 10, 2024 / 10:00 am (CNA). When Pope Francis took to the stage on Friday…

Painting of Father Damien De Veuster and images with lepers and his first church on Molokai Island, Hawaii, from Mary, Star of the Sea Catholic Church. / Credit: Claudine Van Massenhove/Shutterstock CNA Staff, May 10, 2024 / 09:08 am (CNA). In 2008, the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints ruled that a Hawaiian woman’s…

Ongoing construction work on St. Charbel Maronite Church in Doha, Qatar, in April 2024. / Credit: Father Charbel Mhanna ACI MENA, May 10, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Construction is nearing completion on the St. Charbel Maronite Church in Doha, Qatar, with plans to open its doors to worshippers in 2025, coinciding with the Catholic…

Clockwise, from top left: Catholic actor Jonathan Roumie, Cardinal Stephen Chow of Hong Kong, Harrison Butker of the Kansas City Chiefs, and Father Mike Schmitz of Duluth, Minnesota, will address the Class of 2024. / Credits: Shane Anthony Sinclair/Getty Images; Edward Pentin/National Catholic Register; Benedictine College; and FOCUS National Catholic Register, May 10, 2024 /…