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On the Human Need for Beauty
I’ve always had an interest in history because history is to a culture as memory is to each of us as individuals. A man with amnesia is a man without an identity. The same applies […]
Year: 2025
The Dispatch
Children’s hospitals nationally end transgender surgeries on minors amid Trump rules
Children’s National Hospital in Washington “paused prescriptions of puberty blockers and hormone therapy” for transgender-identifying youth there in response to a Trump directive. / Credit: Daquella manera/Wikipedia/CC BY 2.0
Washington, D.C. N… […]
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Exclusive: Gaza priest injured in Israeli bombing discusses impact on parish community
Father Gabriel Romanelli, parish priest at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family who was wounded in a recent strike on the church, stands before the altar during a Sunday morning Mass held by the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem at the church… […]
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White House releases U.S. plan for AI as Catholics say it must uphold human dignity
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 24, 2025 / 17:53 pm (CNA).
This week the White House released its plan for artificial intelligence (AI) in the United States, which aims “to achieve global dominance in AI” and … […]
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Pope Leo XIV tells Dominican priors to ‘listen attentively to the Holy Spirit’
Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus address on July 13, 2025, from Liberty Square in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, where he is spending a two-week summer break. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 24, 2025 / 15:35 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV in a … […]
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Missouri sues Planned Parenthood for ‘systematically’ misleading women on abortion pills
Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City, Missouri. / Credit: eurobanks/Shutterstock
CNA Staff, Jul 24, 2025 / 15:05 pm (CNA).
Missouri filed a lawsuit this week against the national Planned Parenthood organization, alleging that the abortion giant h… […]
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Philadelphia archbishop in pastoral letter tells immigrants: ‘You are not alone’
Archbishop Nelson Pérez of Philadelphia (pictured at his installation Mass in 2020) issued a pastoral letter in support of immigrants on July 23, 2025. / Credit: Sarah Webb/Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 24, 2025 / 1… […]
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U.S bishops distribute $2.6 million to African churches, projects
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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 24, 2025 / 13:35 pm (CNA).
The U.S. Catholic bishops’ 2024 Solidarity Fund for the Church in Africa has awarded $2.6 million to support 96 pastoral projects across 32 A… […]
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Los Angeles Archdiocese launches aid program for immigrant families in crisis
Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles greets perpetual pilgrims of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles in Los Angeles, California, on June 22, 2025. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno/EWTN
CNA Staff, Jul 24, 2025… […]
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Federal bill would exempt pope from U.S. taxes, ‘safeguard’ his American citizenship
Pope Leo XIV waves as the popemobile passes by a crowd of American pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the pope’s general audience on June 18, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media
CNA Staff, Jul 24, 2025 / 12:35 pm (CNA).
A new… […]