Maryland Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan backs codifying Roe
Larry Hogan, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, greets supporters before casting his ballot in the state primary election at Davidsonville Elementary School on May 14, 2024, in Davidsonville, Maryland. / Credit: Chip Somodevilla/G… […]
Finding common ground in ordinary places
A priest without clerical ambition is either a slothful miscreant, odd, holy in his detachment, or somewhere on that continuum. Regardless, he is a free man. Making fun of pesky politically correct social conventions becomes […]
Orthodox patriarch anticipates Pope Francis visit to Turkey for Council of Nicea anniversary
Pope Francis meets with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at the Vatican, Oct. 4, 2021. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 17, 2024 / 18:04 pm (CNA). Pope Francis might be traveling to Turkey next year for the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicea, according to Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew […]
Nebraska bishop shares mental illness story, offers message of hope
Bishop James Conley of the Diocese of Lincoln credits the support of friends, family, medical professionals, and his golden retriever, Stella, with his recovery from mental illness. / Courtesy: Dennis Kellog CNA Staff, May 17, 2024 / 17:14 pm (CNA). After seven years of heading the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, Bishop James Conley found himself […]
California governor: Pope Francis told me he was ‘proud’ of state’s death penalty moratorium
California Gov. Gavin Newsom attends an event with fellow governors in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 23, 2024, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images CNA Staff, May 17, 2024 / 15:34 pm (CNA). California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that following a conference at the Vatican this week Pope Francis […]
Maryland Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan backs codifying Roe
Larry Hogan, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, greets supporters before casting his ballot in the state primary election at Davidsonville Elementary School on May 14, 2024, in Davidsonville, Maryland. / Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 17, 2024 / 16:04 pm (CNA). The Republican nominee for Senate in Maryland — former […]
Movie on Blessed Carlo Acutis and his love for the Eucharist opens this weekend
School children read about the life of Blessed Carlo Acutis at the celebration of his new shrine at St. Dominic Parish in Brick, New Jersey. Oct, 1, 2023. / Credit: Thomas P. Costello II ACI Prensa Staff, May 17, 2024 / 14:46 pm (CNA). The film “Eucharistic Miracles: The Heartbeat of Heaven” about Blessed Carlo […]
BREAKING: New norms give Vatican greater say on alleged apparitions
Breaking News / CNA Rome Newsroom, May 17, 2024 / 05:33 am (CNA). The Vatican’s top doctrinal office is centralizing its authority over the investigation of alleged Marian apparitions and other religious phenomena under new norms it issued Frid… […]
Peru’s government considers transexualism a mental health problem: what you need to know
null / Credit: Juanje Garrido/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, May 17, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). A few days ago, the government of Peru published a supreme decree in which “transsexualism” and “gender identity disorder” are considered “mental health… […]
Vatican overturns own decision on seminary dean
Philosophical-Theological University of Bressanone in Italy. / Credit: Ladislav Luppa / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) CNA Newsroom, May 17, 2024 / 10:13 am (CNA). In a significant reversal, the Vatican approved the appointment of a new dean at a sem… […]