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  • [ September 13, 2025 ] Pope Leo XIV’s Peruvian birthdays: Simplicity, closeness, and community News Briefs
  • [ September 13, 2025 ] Pope Leo XIV urges theologians to defend creation and human dignity in the age of AI News Briefs
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Month: May 2024

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German president laments Church’s diminished role at ‘Catholics Day’

May 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 3

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the103rd German Catholic Convention on May 29, 2024, in Erfurt, Germany. / Credit: Filip Singer – Pool/Getty Images

CNA Newsroom, May 30, 2024 / 15:15 pm … […]

The Dispatch

What do women really want? Thoughts on motherhood and career

May 30, 2024 Marie Meaney, D.Phil. 18

Much ink has been spilled on Harrison Butker’s recent commencement speech at Benedictine College. Given the indignant articles and commentary in so many places, one would have thought that Butker wanted women to remain barefoot […]

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Florida church employee pleads guilty to defrauding parish of $775,000

May 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

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CNA Staff, May 30, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA).
A former employee at a Florida Catholic church has pleaded guilty to stealing more than three-quarters of a million dollars from the parish while employed there.Court … […]

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Benedictine Bishop Dominicus Meier replaces Bode in Osnabrück Diocese in Germany

May 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Bishop Dominicus Meier OSB. / Credit: Besim Mazhiqi, Archdiocese of Paderborn

CNA Newsroom, May 30, 2024 / 13:45 pm (CNA).
More than a year after a German bishop resigned under pressure over his handling of clerical sexual abuse, the Vatican an… […]

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14 Catholics killed in Democratic Republic of Congo after refusing to convert to Islam

May 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

On his second day in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, Feb. 1, 2023, Pope Francis listened to the stories of victims of violence from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s conflict-ridden eastern region. / Credit: Vatican Media

Washington, D.C. N… […]

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Catholic Relief Services unable to provide aid to southern Gaza amid ongoing war

May 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

A refugee camp in Gaza houses those displaced by the war. / Credit: Courtesy of Catholic Relief Services

CNA Staff, May 30, 2024 / 09:10 am (CNA).
A Catholic Relief Services (CRS) official told CNA this week that the organization has been unabl… […]

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Is it a sin for Catholics to not vote in elections?

May 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

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ACI Prensa Staff, May 30, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
The year 2024 is considered the biggest election year in history, with more than 60 countries — representing almost half of the world’s population — holding elec… […]

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The ‘Gen Z’ flip: Why young women are leaving religion — and how to bring them back

May 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

For the first time in decades, young men are more likely to stay in the church, while young women are leaving, according to a recent U.S. study. / Credit: Shutterstock/MDV Edwards

CNA Staff, May 30, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
For the past 20 years,… […]

The Dispatch

Saint Dymphna, mental illness, and holiness

May 30, 2024 Dawn Beutner 5

Saint Dymphna, whose feast day is May 30, is commonly known as the patron saint of mental illness. But the details we have about Dymphna’s life are very limited, and she herself was not mentally […]

Essay

The English-language version of the Catechism is 30 years old this month

May 29, 2024 Patrick Novecosky 20

For those of us who grew up in the wake of the Second Vatican Council—the era of felt banners and guitar Masses—the confusion over what the Catholic Church taught was real. The catechesis of the […]

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