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View of a pantheon built by the Red Cross to bury the bodies of irregular migrants at the Municipal Cemetery of El Real de Santa Maria, Darien Province, Panama, on March 8, 2023, on the eve of its delivery to Panamanian authorities. The Red Cross constructed the hundred niches pantheon to bury the bodies of…

null / fieldwork via Shutterstock. CNA Staff, Apr 5, 2024 / 16:15 pm (CNA). In response to gender studies programs that often churn out ideology contrary to Catholic teaching, the University of St. Thomas, Houston, (UST) is launching a sexuality and gender studies program based on “Catholic anthropology.” “For some time now, conversations about gender…

Former Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton (right) meets with legislators in the Netherlands in 1983. / Credit: Rob Croes for Anefo|Wikimedia|National Archives, Netherlands CNA Staff, Apr 5, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA). Thomas Gumbleton, a vocal peace activist and critic of war and nuclear weapons who served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Detroit,…

A person holds a foil while smoking following the decriminalization of all drugs, including fentanyl and meth, in downtown Portland, Oregon, on Jan. 25, 2024. Since hard drugs were decriminalized in Oregon three years ago, there are no arrests, just a fine and a card with a telephone number where the user can get help….

Discarded Communion hosts were found in the parking lot of St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, after Easter Mass on March 31, 2024. / Credit: Photo courtesy of St. James Catholic Church Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 5, 2024 / 14:45 pm (CNA). Catholics who attended Easter Mass at a historic Harpers…