A poster announces a campaign organized by the Pan-African Catholic Theology and Pastoral Network (PACTPAN) to end human trafficking. / Credit: PACTPAN ACI Africa, Feb 8, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). Over 30 African countries have confirmed their participation in a campaign to end human trafficking organized by the Pan-African Catholic Theology and Pastoral Network…
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C. / Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Washington D.C., Feb 7, 2025 / 21:55 pm (CNA). The U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference laid off 50 staff members in its migration and refugee services office Friday, citing a delay in reimbursements from the federal government. U.S. Conference…
Kansas City Bishop James Johnston (left) and Philadelphia Archbishop Nelson Pérez (right) talk some clerical smack on “EWTN News in Depth” over their purportedly friendly Super Bowl wager. / Credit: “EWTN News in Depth”/Screenshot CNA Newsroom, Feb 7, 2025 / 21:05 pm (CNA). On Super Bowl Sunday, players for the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia…
Attendees kneel and reach for the monstrance as it passes by them during a procession at the National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, Indiana. / Credit: Jacob Bentzinger in partnership with the National Eucharistic Congress CNA Staff, Feb 7, 2025 / 18:40 pm (CNA). The next National Eucharistic Congress will be held in 2029, CNA confirmed today. “The…
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Demonstrators rally on the steps of the United States Supreme Court on Dec. 4, 2024, as justices heard oral arguments in a challenge to a Tennessee law banning transgender surgeries for minors. / Credit: Migi Fabara/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 7, 2025 / 18:00 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump’s administration ended the U.S. Department of…
Bernini’s famous baldacchino in St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Ricardo André Frantz/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 7, 2025 / 18:20 pm (CNA). A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that were on the altar to the ground,…
As director of the Vatican Observatory, Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno is known informally as “the pope’s astronomer.” / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly” screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 7, 2025 / 17:00 pm (CNA). Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, has spent the last 30 years staring at the sky. As the director of the Vatican Observatory, known…
null / Credit: Yupa Watchanakit/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 7, 2025 / 17:30 pm (CNA). The U.S. bishops’ conference drew attention to the global crisis of “modern-day slavery” in a statement on the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking. The day is annually observed by Catholics on Feb. 8 — the feast day of…
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