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  • [ August 11, 2026 ] Pope Leo XIV appoints new members to Vatican’s Council for the Economy News Briefs
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Month: December 2023

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Brazil’s Congress nixes government funding of abortions, sex changes for minors

December 27, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Brazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, speaks to the media on Oct. 22, 2023. / Credit: Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images

ACI Digital, Dec 27, 2023 / 11:55 am (CNA).
Just prior to its Christmas recess, th… […]

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Producer shares story of ‘family saint’ with new generation of Catholics

December 27, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Susan Agostinelli shows Pope Francis a picture of her great, great uncle, Bl. Grimoaldo Santamaria of the Purification, during a meeting at the Vatican on Oct. 6, 2022. The audience was part of a conference on holiness and sainthood hosted by th… […]

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Pope Francis: One must never dialogue with the devil

December 27, 2023 Catholic News Agency 5

Pope Francis delivers his general audience address to pilgrims in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican on Dec. 27, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Dec 27, 2023 / 09:10 am (CNA).
Pope Francis inaugurated a new catechetical serie… […]

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Vulnerable People Project works to bring heat to Afghans facing harsh winter

December 27, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Founder and President of the Vulnerable People Project Jason Jones speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” host Tracy Sabol on Dec. 8, 2023. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”

CNA Staff, Dec 27, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Afghans are facing yet another brutal win… […]

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Maryland 2024 referendum proposes constitutional right to abortion

December 27, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

Maryland Capitol. / Dave Newman / Shutterstock.

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 27, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Voters in Maryland will take part in a statewide referendum next November to decide whether to make abortion access a constitutional right… […]

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Blessed Odoardo Focherini and holy dads

December 27, 2023 Dawn Beutner 1

Odoardo Focherini was a dad. Since June 15, 2013, the Catholic Church has called him Blessed Odoardo Focherini. What does it take for a husband and a father to earn the title of blessed? The […]

The Dispatch

Praying for our country with John Carroll

December 27, 2023 George Weigel 5

John Carroll (1735-1815) was the first Catholic bishop, not just in, but of the United States, for during the first 18 years of his episcopate, his Diocese of Baltimore encompassed the entire country. Carroll was […]

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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, December 27, 2023

December 27, 2023 CWR Staff 5

The self-loathing ivory tower – “Age-old antisemitism is a very real but subordinate phenomenon. What comes first is Western self-loathing, the obscene conviction that the Western world, and it alone, is the source of colonialism, […]

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New Yorkers will vote on making abortion an ‘equal right’ in state’s constitution

December 26, 2023 Catholic News Agency 7

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CNA Staff, Dec 26, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).
New Yorkers will be voting next November on a proposal to enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution.The vote comes as a wave of states attempt to expand abortion… […]

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Pope Francis: After 2,000 years the persecution of Christians continues

December 26, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis gives a blessing after he delivers his Angelus address to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Dec. 26, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Dec 26, 2023 / 11:05 am (CNA).
During Tuesday’s Angelus on the occasion of t… […]

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