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Participants gather at a previous Rome Marathon. / Credit: Olivier florid, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Mar 14, 2025 / 11:50 am (CNA). Over 30,000 runners will hold 42 seconds of silence for Pope Francis before the start of the Rome Marathon on Sunday morning. The silence — 42 seconds for the…

Bishop Isaac Martínez Chuquizana leads the diocese of Cajamarca, Peru. / Credit: Peruvian Bishops Conference. Lima Newsroom, Mar 14, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The bishop of Cajamarca, Peru, has denounced a “direct attack” on the Catholic Church’s freedom of speech by the LGBTQ+ community, which accuses the Church of the “alleged crime of discrimination”…

null / Credit: Elena Ray/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 14, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The contribution of nearly 700 Catholic religious sisters to a “groundbreaking” decades-long study on Alzheimer’s and dementia continues to offer important information for maintaining “cognitive health” across the lifespan, researchers say. Launched in 1986 by neurologist David Snowdon, the “Nun Study”…