null / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 17, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). The celebration of Mass at a southern California parish was interrupted by an armed police pursuit of a suspected gunman on Tuesday morning.  The incident occurred during the 8:30 a.m. Mass on Tuesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Placentia, Orange County,…

null / Prostock-Studio/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 17, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA). A bill under consideration in Congress would head off the White House’s attempts to strip federal funding from some crisis pregnancy centers throughout the U.S.  H.R. 6918, titled the Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act, was introduced in the House of…

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti greets animals and offers his blessing in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Jan 17, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). St. Peter’s Square was filled with horses, cows, donkeys, dogs, sheep, chickens, and rabbits on Wednesday for the feast of St. Anthony Abbot. Farmers…

Pope Francis delivers a message at his general audience on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Jan 17, 2024 / 12:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis amended the Vatican’s financial regulations on Tuesday, enshrining a spending limit into law that requires Vatican offices…

Pro-lifers march on Washington, D.C., during the 2023 March for Life. / Credit: Katie Yoder/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 17, 2024 / 11:42 am (CNA). The 51st national March for Life — the largest annual pro-life event in the world — is just around the corner, on Friday, Jan. 19.  The 2024 march, the second…

null / Credit: Paul Vinten/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 17, 2024 / 12:15 pm (CNA). St. Anthony of the Desert was born in Egypt on Jan. 12, 251, into a family of wealthy farmers in the Heracleopolis Magna, which was a part of Egypt that was assimilated into the Roman Empire.  When he was about…