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null / Credit: Mehdi Kasumov/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 13, 2025 / 17:15 pm (CNA). The Catholic University of America announced that it has earned the R1 designation for institutes with the “highest levels of research activity,” according to Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education, which grants the status.  “Being named an R1 institution…

null / Credit: Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 13, 2025 / 17:35 pm (CNA). A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order barring transgender medical surgeries and interventions for individuals under the age of 19.  The move comes after a group of seven families with transgender-identifying children filed a lawsuit…

Illinois Rep. Henry J. Hyde (left) in 1998. / Credit: LUKE FRAZZA/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Feb 13, 2025 / 15:40 pm (CNA). Local Democratic officials in Illinois are leading an effort to remove from government buildings the name of Henry J. Hyde, the late Republican congressman who lent his name to a significant…

A man attempted to stab the 38-year-old pastor of Holy Ghost Parish in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Feb. 9, 2025. The suspect has been charged with assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon, and disturbing an assemblage of persons. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Catholic Register Winnipeg, Canada, Feb 13, 2025 / 14:35 pm…