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Our Lady of Fatima, ideology, and the Vatican’s homosexual crisis
Both radical feminism and homosexuality have no use for healthy, ordered, loving men and women, parents, and children. […]
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News Briefs
Vatican talks to China in continued Russia-Ukraine peace efforts
Vatican peace envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi spoke Aug. 14, 2024, with Li Hui, China’s special representative for Eurasian affairs, about the Russia-Ukraine war. The phone conversation was the most recent step in the Vatican’s continued diplomatic … […]
News Briefs
Vatican secretary of state meets Ukrainian president Zelenskyy
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (left) and Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin. / Credit: Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images; Horacio Villalobos Corbis/Getty Images
Vatican City, Jul 23, 2024 / 13:23 pm (CNA).
Vatican Secretary … […]
Columns
American Catholics and the mixed martial messages of May
The month of May presents American Catholics with mixed martial messages. On May 12, we celebrated the Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Roman soldiers who left the army after their conversion to Christianity and ultimately gave […]
News Briefs
Pope Francis speaks with Zelenskyy about peace efforts in Ukraine
Pope Francis meets with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican on May 13, 2023, their first meeting since the start of the full-scale war with Russia. / Credit: Vatican Media
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 29, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA… […]
Essay
The Ukrainian bishops and those papal remarks on Russian culture
“Journalism is the first draft of history,” the saying goes, and journalists who wrote the first draft of Pope Francis’s visit to Mongolia earlier this month made some note of its genuinely historic character. Most […]
The Dispatch
Working for peace in Ukraine
Unless the Ukrainian army’s current counteroffensive ends in clear-cut victory for either Ukraine or Russia—an outcome that seems unlikely at the moment—it is possible, though hardly certain, that conditions then will finally exist for a […]
The Dispatch
Catholic blogger remains detained in Belarus after criticizing regime
Ihar Losik, a Belarusian political prisoner and Catholic. / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
St. Louis, Mo., Jul 31, 2023 / 08:20 am (CNA).
Catholic blogger and father Ihar Losik remains incarcerated in Belarus more than three years after being … […]
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Pope Francis calls Russia to renew Ukraine grain deal
Pope Francis addresses the crowd in St. Peter’s Square in his Sunday Angelus on July 16, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Jul 30, 2023 / 06:10 am (CNA).
Pope Francis made a direct call to Russia on Sunday to renew the deal that allow… […]
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24-hour read-a-thon highlights wrongful detention of WSJ journalist Evan Gerschkovich
An undated ID photo of journalist Evan Gershkovich. / Credit: AFP via Getty Images
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 19, 2023 / 12:18 pm (CNA).
Beginning at 8 a.m today, July 19, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., journalists began a … […]