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  • [ April 10, 2026 ] Leo XIV and Macron meet: peace is both a ‘duty and a requirement’ News Briefs
  • [ April 10, 2026 ] Poll: Catholic support for President Donald Trump drops below 50% amid Iran war News Briefs
  • [ April 10, 2026 ] ‘No one felt safe’: Catholics continue aid in Lebanon amid deadly Israeli strike News Briefs
  • [ April 10, 2026 ] Tehran cardinal breaks silence: ‘I celebrated the Easter Vigil carrying you all in my heart’ News Briefs
  • [ April 10, 2026 ] Pope Leo names Father Andrea Ciucci chancellor of Pontifical Academy for Life News Briefs

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Analysis: Jesuit sex abuse scandal in Bolivia could be used politically to repress Church

April 27, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Facade of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons / EEJCC

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 27, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).
One year after the Spanish newspaper El País published the report “Diary of a Pedophile Priest,” w… […]

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Franciscans file petition to stop cable cars from passing over Holy Land Catholic cemetery

April 27, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

A view of the modern area of the Catholic cemetery located on the southern hillside of Mount Zion in April 2024. In the background are the buildings of the Arabic neighborhood of Abu Tor. / Credit: Marinella Bandini

Jerusalem, Apr 27, 2024 / 07… […]

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‘Little miracle of Lille’: How a candlelight Mass gathers hundreds of young people every week in France

April 27, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Every Tuesday evening at 10 p.m., between 800 and 900 students converge on the historic St. Joseph’s Chapel at Lille Catholic University for a candlelight Mass. / Credit: Courtesy of Prudence Cuypers

National Catholic Register, Apr 27, 2024 / 0… […]

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Whodunnit? The Strange Case of Shakespeare’s Will

April 26, 2024 Joseph Pearce 12

William Shakespeare is a mystery. What we know about the facts of his life is outweighed by what we don’t know. His life can be likened metaphorically to a jigsaw puzzle in which most of […]

The Dispatch

Keeping it real: AI, Catholic Answers, and the Vatican

April 26, 2024 Christopher R. Altieri 11

The robot uprising is gon’ be a hoot. That’s the lesson from this week, one that saw the world’s first-ever sacerdotal AI chatbot ordained and assigned to general ministry, then swiftly laicized and reinvented as […]

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109 years after genocide, Armenia faces another existential threat

April 26, 2024 Catholic News Agency 3

Attendees lay flowers at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan to mark the 109th anniversary of World War I-era mass killings on April 24, 2024. / Credit: KAREN MINASYAN/AFP via Getty Images

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 26… […]

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Franciscan University rejects Biden administration’s transgender policies in Title IX

April 26, 2024 Catholic News Agency 6

Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, chapel and statue. / Credit: Joseph Antoniello, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 26, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
Franciscan University of Steubenville will continue to separa… […]

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U.S. birth and fertility rates drop to record lows, according to CDC report

April 26, 2024 Catholic News Agency 12

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 26, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA).
Provisional data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week showed that the fertility rate in the United States hit… […]

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Most priests in Sierra Leone are sons of Muslims, bishop says

April 26, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

There are now more than 100 priests in the four dioceses of Sierra Leone. / Credit: Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 26, 2024 / 16:15 pm (CNA).
Bishop Natale Paganelli, 66, arrived as a Xaverian missionary in 2005 in Sierra Leone. In an inter… […]

The Dispatch

Four German bishops resist push to install permanent ‘Synodal Council’

April 26, 2024 Catholic News Agency 17

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne attends a German Synodal Way assembly on March 9, 2023. / Credit: Synodaler Weg/Maximilian von Lachner

CNA Newsroom, Apr 26, 2024 / 13:57 pm (CNA).
Four German bishops on Wednesday distanced themselves fr… […]

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