2/22/12 6:03 PM
Madrid, Spain, Feb 22, 2012 / 04:03 pm ( CNA/Europa Press).- Around 400 civic groups in Spain are joining together to support a pro-life demonstration set for March 24 in downtown Madrid. Alicia Latorre, director of the Spanish Fed...
2/22/12 5:16 PM
Washington D.C., Feb 22, 2012 / 03:16 pm ( CNA/EWTN News).- Iranian authorities may have issued an execution order for a pastor jailed for refusing to renounce his Christian faith. “The news out of Iran is not encouraging,” said Jo...
2/22/12 3:31 PM
Rome, Italy, Feb 22, 2012 / 01:31 pm ( CNA/EWTN News).- Like millions of Catholics around the world, Pope Benedict XVI received ashes on Ash Wednesday. He said that they become a “sacred symbol” of austerity which reflects both the “curse...
2/22/12 2:10 PM
Vatican City, Feb 22, 2012 / 12:10 pm ( CNA/EWTN News).- As he observed Ash Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI urged Christians to live the 40 days of Lent with faith and patience, aware that God will bring light, truth and joy into the darknes...
2/22/12 2:03 PM
Havana, Cuba, Feb 22, 2012 / 12:03 pm ( CNA).- A leading Cuban archbishop intervened to prevent 14 members of the Women in White protest group from being assaulted by Cuban police agents. Archbishop Dionisio Garcia Ibanez told CNA ...
2/22/12 1:12 PM
New York City, N.Y., Feb 22, 2012 / 11:12 am ( CNA/EWTN News).- The president of the world's largest religious media network has explained his reasons for suing the U.S. government, in a Feb. 21 New York Times editorial about the federal ...
2/22/12 6:06 AM
Trenton, N.J., Feb 22, 2012 / 04:06 am ( CNA).- The New Jersey Catholic Conference lauded Gov. Chris Christie's veto of a bill recognizing “gay marriage” in the state, but observed that better marriage formation for local Catholics is sti...
2/22/12 4:24 AM
Madison, N.J., Feb 22, 2012 / 02:24 am ( CNA/EWTN News).- A new survey reveals that pharmacy directors across the country do not believe that a mandate requiring insurance companies to offer free contraceptives will cut costs as the Obama...
2/22/12 2:10 AM
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb 22, 2012 / 12:10 am ( CNA).- Archbishop Charles J. Chaput has accepted the final recommendations for elementary school closures in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia but has granted appeals from 18 of the schools. <...
2/21/12 8:08 PM
Manassas, Va., Feb 21, 2012 / 06:08 pm ( CNA).- The Cardinal Newman Society evaluated a list of twenty prominent Catholic colleges offering contraceptive coverage and found that most do so because of a state mandate or medical reasons but...
2/21/12 6:05 PM
Havana, Cuba, Feb 21, 2012 / 04:05 pm ( CNA).- The Christian Life Movement in Cuba launched a new Facebook page called “Waiting for Benedict XVI” to promote the pontiff's upcoming visit and defend the right of all Cubans to welcome him. <...
2/21/12 6:03 PM
Houston, Texas, Feb 21, 2012 / 04:03 pm ( CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI named Houston native Msgr. George A. Sheltz on Feb. 21 as the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston’s next auxiliary bishop. “I am deeply humbled and honored t...
2/21/12 3:55 PM
Rome, Italy, Feb 21, 2012 / 01:55 pm ( CNA).- You don’t have to be named O’Brien to become a cardinal, but it seems to help. Just after Cardinal Edwin O’Brien became a member of the College of Cardinals on Feb. 18, he was welcomed by a ma...
2/21/12 2:05 PM
Bogotá, Colombia, Feb 21, 2012 / 12:05 pm ( CNA).- Prominent abortion advocate Monica Roa, who helped legalize abortion in Colombia in 2006, posted a picture of herself on Facebook where she mocks the Catholic Church by dressing up as a b...
2/21/12 12:35 PM
Ave Maria, Fla., Feb 21, 2012 / 10:35 am ( CNA/EWTN News).- Ave Maria University has filed a lawsuit seeking relief from the federal rule forcing it to fund contraception, sterilization, and abortion-causing drugs in employee health care ...
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