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Pope Francis sends telegram to Iraqi Christian community after tragic wedding fire

The Christian community in Qaraqosh, in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains, was devastated last week after a fire broke out at a Syriac Catholic wedding celebration. / Credit: Rody Sher/ ACI MENA CNA Staff, Oct 2, 2023 / 18:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis sent his condolences on Saturday to an Iraqi Christian community in Qaraqosh, northern Iraq, […]

Vatican responds to to Cardinal Duka’s dubia on divorced and remarried Catholics

Czech Cardinal Dominik Duka speaks at the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 10, 2021. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Oct 2, 2023 / 19:48 pm (CNA). On a day dominated by news of five cardinals publishing a set of “dubia” to Pope Francis and the Vatican in turn releasing the pope’s responses, […]

Answering the doubts: What are dubia?  

null / Credit: TTstudio/Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Oct 2, 2023 / 11:50 am (CNA). The publication of a new set of questions addressed to Pope Francis by five longtime cardinals has once again turned the focus of Catholics to the place of “d… […]

The 5 cardinals behind the latest dubia issued to Pope Francis

Left to right: German Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah, Mexican Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, American Cardinal Raymond Burke, and Chinese Cardinal Zen Ze-Kiun. / Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA; Intermirifica.net; Daniel … […]