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Live Action’s new website on the development of a child through pregnancy, windowtothewomb.app. / Credit: windowtothewomb.app CNA Staff, Dec 17, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA). Have you ever wondered what it’d be like to have a window into the womb? Well, that’s exactly what the pro-life group Live Action has attempted to provide with its…

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, and Bishop Earl Fernandes. / Credit: Dennis Callahan/Archdiocese of San Francisco; Joaquin Peiro Perez/CNA; Joe Bukuras/CNA CNA Staff, Dec 17, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA). Serving at the altar for Venerable Fulton J. Sheen played a major role in one U.S. cardinal’s vocational journey. For another bishop, falling to…

Oura Church in Nagasaki, Japan. / Credit: Sean Pavone/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 17, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). Catholics in Japan have endured centuries of persecution. The currently small — but devout — presence of the Church in Japan is built upon the witness of untold numbers of martyrs, many of whom died en masse….

Father Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, presides over the solemn Mass for the 1st Sunday of Advent, on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2023. / Credit: Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Dec 17, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA). A few days before Father Francesco Patton, the custos of the Holy Land, made his entrance into Bethlehem by…

Pope Francis at his general audience on Nov. 22, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 17, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis celebrates his 87th birthday on Sunday, Dec. 17, the third Sunday of Advent, as he continues to reign as the oldest pope in the past century and one of…