null / ZouZou/shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 12:27 pm (CNA). Draft guidelines issued this week by the U.K. Department for Education (DfE) state that schools should only support student pronoun changes in rare cases and that teachers should not be forced to use the pronouns chosen by students identifying as transgender. At the…
Papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski. / lvivadm via Wikimedia (CC BY 3.0). CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 12:32 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has sent Cardinal Konrad Krajewski to the Holy Land for Christmas as his personal representative to bring solidarity to people suffering amid the war. The Polish cardinal, who serves as the papal…
How do you find the perfect piano? A Romance on Three Legs is the story of Glenn Gould’s obsessive quest for the perfect piano. Gould was Canada’s most famous pianist and the most eccentric pianist of the 20th century. Not even the world’s best Steinway was good enough for Gould. In the mid-1950s, he even considered giving…
People mourn outside the Charles University building following a mass shooting yesterday, on Dec. 22, 2023, in Prague, Czech Republic. Fourteen people were killed and 25 injured. Police say the gunman was a 24-year-old student at the university. / Credit: Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 11:38 am (CNA). Pope Francis offered…
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On Dec. 21, leaders of the three communities responsible for the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher took part in a meeting for the presentation of the work in progress in the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in 2023. From left to right: Father Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, H. B. Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox…
Pornhub website logo. / Kate Krav-Rude/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 10:35 am (CNA). The European Union (EU) this week announced that Pornhub, along with two other high-traffic pornography sites, must comply with major age verification and safety laws passed last year by the governing body. The European Commission, which proposes and enforces laws…
Israeli Ambassador to the Holy See Raphael Schutz. רפי שוץ, CC BY-SA 3.0 / Credit: רפי שוץ|Wikimedia| CC BY-SA 3.0 Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 22, 2023 / 10:41 am (CNA). The Israeli ambassador to the Holy See accused the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem of “blood libel” for saying that two Christian women in Gaza had…
WARSAW, Poland (ChurchMilitant.com) – In a significant shift from the previous administration’s policies, Poland’s new coalition government proposes to reduce state-funded catechesis in public schools, stirring debate between the State and the Catholic Church. Barbara Nowacka Barbara Nowacka, the incoming education minister, announced the proposal shortly after the new government’s inauguration. Nowacka aims to halve the…
PARIS (ChurchMilitant.com) – The announcement by France’s president that historic stained-glass windows in Notre-Dame Cathedral are to be replaced is sparking outrage. A 2019 fire spared the windows of the Paris cathedral More than 82,000 people have signed a petition, launched on Sunday by the La Tribune de l’Art, to push back against Emmanuel Macron’s effort to replace historic stained-glass windows in…
