Complex Catholic hospital mergers pose ethics challenge for U.S. bishops
Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. / Credit: Michael Vi/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 13, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA). The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked its Committee on Doctrine to address issues such as … […]
FDA approves first nonprescription oral contraceptive ‘Opill’
null / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 13, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday announced the approval of the first nonprescription oral contraceptive, called “Opill.” The drug’s a… […]
Bill to designate child trafficking a ‘serious felony’ stalls in California
The California capitol. / Willem van Bergen (CC BY-SA 2.0). Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 13, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA). Democrats in the California State Assembly drew criticism this week for blocking a bill that would have elevated the offense o… […]
Why does producer Eduardo Verástegui consider ‘Sound of Freedom’ success a miracle?
Eduardo Verástegui attends “Familia y Entretenimiento” press conference as a part of second day of XIV World Congress of Families Mexico 2022 at Expo Santa Fe México on Oct. 1, 2022, in Mexico City. / Credit: Jaime Nogales/Medios y Med… […]
Clerical sex abuses crisis: Spanish priests hit with sanctions
null / Credit: Credit: Koolshooters / Pexels ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 13, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Mallorca in Spain has sentenced Father Julià Cifre Vandrell to three years of not celebrating Mass “in any place other than at his home… […]
Sound of Freedom defies naysayers with 5 million tickets sold, $50 million in receipts
The popularity of this important movie, which has pulled back the curtain on the global child-sex trafficking industry, has humiliated the studios who refused to distribute the film on the grounds that no one would want to see it and the secular critics who since its opening have attempted to smear the movie as a […]
Maine’s pro-LGBT governor signs law allowing cross-sex hormones for minors without parental consent
‘I just feel this is another bill that we’re just going too far on where we’re taking the rights of parents away,’ a Republican lawmaker opposed to the bill said.Read More
Canadian nursing program director denounces China’s forced organ harvesting
Tony Chacon, head of the Nephrology Nursing Specialty Program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), said nurses have a moral obligation to raise awareness about the issue.Read More
Brothers of St. John must take firm steps to heal past abuse, victim insists
Former religious sister who was abused by the founder of the Brothers of St. John says the congregation must take concrete steps to help victims following publication of abuse report
Catholic priest in DR-Congo evangelizes through rap music
Jean Pierre Mongambi, a singer and songwriter known as “the rapper priest”, is a youth chaplain in the Catholic archdiocese of Kinshasa