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Vatican office deletes online poll showing negative response to Synod on Synodality

July 29, 2024 Catholic News Agency 40

Pope Francis offers a prayer at the conclusion of the 2023 Synod on Synodality. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican City, Jul 29, 2024 / 11:18 am (CNA).
The Vatican was criticized by online commentators over the weekend for swiftly deleting an onli… […]

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Catholic leaders join French bishops in condemning Last Supper scene at Paris Olympics opening

July 27, 2024 Catholic News Agency 35

The Last Supper by Da Vinci. / null

CNA Newsroom, Jul 27, 2024 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
Bishops and prominent prelates from around the world have joined the French Bishops’ Conference and U.S. bishops in criticizing the Paris Olympics opening ceremony… […]

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Catholics from across country meet in Indiana for National Eucharistic Congress

July 18, 2024 Catholic News Agency 7

Big smiles from a group from the Diocese of Sacramento, California, as they wait in the long line to complete their registration for the congress in the Indiana Convention Center on July 15, 2024. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno/EWTN

Indianapolis, Ind…. […]

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Republicans remove ‘right to life’ plank from party platform

July 8, 2024 Catholic News Agency 125

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, praised the platform, saying it demonstrates that the Republican Party “remains strongly pro-life at the national level.” / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN News in Depth

Washington,… […]

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Vatican excommunicates Viganò for schism

July 5, 2024 Catholic News Agency 165

Archbishop Carlo Viganò. / Credit: Edward Pentin/National Catholic Register

Rome Newsroom, Jul 5, 2024 / 09:35 am (CNA).
The Vatican has officially excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith announ… […]

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Convert, author, and noted radio host Al Kresta succumbs to liver cancer

June 15, 2024 Kathy Schiffer 8

Al Kresta, host of the nationally syndicated talk show “Kresta in the Afternoon” on Ave Maria Radio and the EWTN radio network, has gone to his eternal reward at age 73. His illness was brief, […]

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Cardinals Müller and Schönborn: Ordination of women is impossible

June 10, 2024 Catholic News Agency 12

Cardinals Christoph Schönborn and Gerhard Ludwig Müller. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

CNA Newsroom, Jun 10, 2024 / 13:45 pm (CNA).
Shortly after Pope Francis opposed the possibility of an ordained female diaconate, two German-speaking cardinals … […]

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Pope Francis says conservative critics have a ‘suicidal attitude’

May 16, 2024 Catholic News Agency 115

CNA Staff, May 16, 2024 / 16:58 pm (CNA). In an interview with “60 Minutes” airing this Sunday, Pope Francis takes aim at his “conservative critics” in the United States, reportedly saying a conservative is someone who […]

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Rediscovered book by Cardinal Fernández features graphic erotic passages on ‘spirituality and sensuality’

January 8, 2024 Catholic News Agency 66

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Rome Newsroom, Jan 8, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA).
A 1998 book by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández featuring provocative, sexually-charged themes has resurfaced, likely adding further scrutiny to the already embattled… […]

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Vatican draws line on women’s ordination and homosexuality in new letter to German bishops

November 24, 2023 Catholic News Agency 35

Cardinal Pietro Parolin. / Claude Truong-Ngoc via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

CNA Newsroom, Nov 24, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).
The Vatican has informed German bishops in writing that the ordination of women and changes in the Church’s teachin… […]

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