null / Credit: PR Image Factory/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 20, 2023 / 16:56 pm (CNA). Lawmakers in Texas on Friday voted down a section of a major education bill that would have created a publicly-funded education savings account (ESA) for students wishing to attend private schools, including religiously-affiliated schools.  The Texas House voted 84-63 Nov. 17 in…

Javier Milei, president-elect of Argentina. / Credit: Flickr by Vox Spain / Public Domain ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 20, 2023 / 15:55 pm (CNA). Various pro-life and pro-family leaders hailed the election of the next president of Argentina, Javier Milei, who defeated Sergio Massa, current minister of economy and candidate of the Union for the…

Sister Augustine Marie Molnar, a member of the Sister Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, died tragically in a car accident on Nov. 18, 2023, while traveling to an event to promote vocations. / Credit: Sister Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus CNA Staff, Nov 20, 2023 / 14:38 pm (CNA)….

By a vote of 240-2, the U.S. bishops voted last Wednesday to write a letter of support to Pope Francis, for an effort to see St. John Henry Newman named a Doctor of the Church. “John Henry Newman,” Si John Everett Millais, 1881. public domain. Bishop Daniel Flores, who heads the USCCB doctrine committee, explained…

Father Jesús Mariscal recently helped a homeless woman give birth to twins outside St. Paul Cathedral in Yakima, Washington . / Credit: Catholic Extension Yakima, Wash., Nov 20, 2023 / 12:15 pm (CNA). A young priest recently helped a distressed homeless woman bring two young lives into the world. He shared the remarkable story with…

null / Credit: Zolnierek / Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 20, 2023 / 12:45 pm (CNA). An Ohio priest was sentenced to life in prison Friday after being convicted of multiple sexual abuse charges earlier this year.  Parish priest Michael Zacharias was convicted on five counts of sex trafficking by a federal jury in the Northern District of…