CNA Staff, Jul 17, 2020 / 08:30 am (CNA).- Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has said that he regrets that an increasing number of people are leaving the Church in Austria.
In an interview with Austrian Church newspapers, he said: “There i… […]
Vatican City, Jul 17, 2020 / 07:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis offered his condolences after Polish Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski died early Friday at the age of 80.
The cardinal had worked closely with popes St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI as the former … […]
Rome Newsroom, Jul 17, 2020 / 06:30 am (CNA).- On Easter Sunday in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, three innocent women were burned and tortured while local Catholics were at Mass for the Resurrection of the Lord.
“One cannot ignore … […]
Vatican City, Jul 17, 2020 / 06:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis named Bishop Ronald A. Hicks as the next bishop of Joliet, Illinois, Friday.
Hicks, 55, has served as Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Chicago since 2015 and as an auxiliary bishop of the a… […]
CNA Staff, Jul 17, 2020 / 12:11 am (CNA).- Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix praised the Holy Father’s decision to advance the cause of canonization for Venerable Eusebio Francisco Kino, a Jesuit missionary priest who mapped the southwestern Unite… […]
A new book by Christian Browne, The Pearl of Great Price: Pius VI & the Sack of Rome (Arouca Press), is a historical play that tells the true story of the invasion of Rome by […]
CNA Staff, Jul 16, 2020 / 04:01 pm (CNA).- Canada’s bishops issued a pastoral letter Tuesday expressing concern for senior citizens who receive inadequate institutional care, a situation that has been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
&ld… […]
Disappointed pro-lifers were predictably angry at Chief Justice John Roberts for providing the fifth vote in the five-member Supreme Court majority that last month struck down a Louisiana law requiring doctors who do abortions to […]
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 16, 2020 / 03:00 pm (CNA).- A draft report from an advisory body to the U.S. State Department on human rights says that religious freedom is “foremost” among human rights.
“Foremost among the unalienabl… […]
CNA Staff, Jul 16, 2020 / 02:01 pm (CNA).- A group of conservative figures called on Congress Thursday to expand tax credits for families to ease the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a July 16 letter to the leaders of Congress, the signers ca… […]
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