Thomas Aquinas College goes off the grid with green power plan
Mark Kretschmer, vice president for operations at Thomas Aquinas College (TAC), pictured with Thomas Kaiser, a biologist and researcher, and Lawerence Youngblood, an electrical engineer and director of Brompton Energy. / Credit: Thomas Aquinas College CNA Staff, May 16, 2024 / 15:24 pm (CNA). A sequestered Catholic college in the foothills of California launched an […]
Thomas Aquinas College Goes Off the Grid with Green Power Plan
Credit: Thomas Aquinas College Mark Kretschmer, vice president for operations at Thomas Aquinas College (TAC), pictured with Thomas Kaiser, a biologist and researcher, and Lawerence Youngblood, an electrical engineer and director of Brompton Energy. A sequestered Catholic college in the foothills of California launched an energy program that has nearly eliminated the college’s carbon footprint […]
St. Gianna, ‘Beautiful Witness of Hope,’ Offers Lessons Ahead of National Eucharistic Pilgrimage and Jubilee 2025
Courtesy of Gianna Emanuela Molla Banner bearing the image of St. Gianna Molla holding one of her children hangs in St. Peter’s Square on May 16, 2004, the day of her canonization. Italian saint canonized 20 years ago testifies to a life well lived, walking with Christ.
CEPACS releases final document of Lagos General Assembly
The Pan African Episcopal Committee for Social Communications (CEPACS) has published and released the final document of its Golden Jubilee assembly, which was held in Lagos, Nigeria, in November 2023. Read all
Pro-lifers imprisoned under FACE Act speak out
Washington Surgi-Clinic on F St. NW in Washington, D.C., on April 7, 2022. / Credit: Katie Yoder/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 16, 2024 / 14:48 pm (CNA). After seven pro-life activists were sentenced to years in prison for a “rescue” attempt at a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic, some of the activists are now speaking out. […]
Ron DeSantis Is Back at Home and Back on Top
Joe Raedle Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference held at the Santorini by Georgios restaurant on March 20, 2024 in Miami Beach, Fla. DeSantis talked about preventing unauthorized camping and public sleeping during the event and signed Florida House Bill 1365, which addresses homelessness. ANALYSIS: In the wake of his failed presidential […]
Catholic Singer Dana Scallon to Receive Highest Honor Vatican Bestows on a Layperson
Dana Scallon will be honored by the Vatican today. Watch live online as Scallon is named a dame of the Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great, established in 1831, by Pope Gregory XVI.
Italian Actor Roberto Benigni to Join Pope Francis for World Children’s Day
Pope Francis meets with Italian actor Roberto Benigni on Dec. 7, 2022. The Vatican is expecting children from more than 100 countries to travel to Rome for the weekend event with the Pope.
Lawmakers Renew Calls to Repeal the FACE Act
Katie Yoder/CNA PAAU activists hold a rally outside Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C., May 4, 2022. Lawmakers are claiming that the FACE Act, which was used to convict and sentence the pro-life activists, is being abused by the Biden Department of Justice to target and punish pro-lifers.
Court Says Maryland Parents Have No Right to Opt Out of LGBTQ Curriculum
Parental and religious freedom rights advocates, including a group of Muslim parents, on June 6, 2023, protest a Maryland school system policy that removes parents’ authority to opt their children out of homosexual and transgender coursework. The controversy has united a broad coalition of primarily Muslim, Catholic, and Ethiopian Orthodox Christian parents against the county […]