Archive for March 21, 2024

Veronica Webb leads a seminar for parents in fall 2023.?w=200&h=150

By Kate Quiñones

Notre Dame Law grad pilots legal program for parents of children with disabilities

Veronica Webb launched the Special Education Law Clinic in November 2023 to help parents of children with disabilities. Read more

German bishops in Rome on Nov. 17, 2022.?w=200&h=150

By AC Wimmer

German bishops to discuss Synodal Way with Vatican amid controversy

A delegation of German bishops is expected in Rome this Friday for talks with the Vatican about the German Synodal... Read more

Carissa Carroll, pictured with her son Jack, founded the nonprofit organization Jack's Basket to celebrate babies with Down syndrome?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

CUA panel: Prenatal testing poses unique threat to preborn children with Down syndrome

A panel of pro-life leaders and scholars is calling attention to the threat that prenatal testing poses to preborn children... Read more

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By Kate Quiñones

U.S. Catholic school report highlights steady enrollment, school choice

The National Catholic Educational Association reported that enrollment remained steady with a 0.0% change in enrollment. Read more

The St. Mary's mens basketball team wins the West Coast Conference, earning themselves a spot in the NCAA tournament.?w=200&h=150

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

St. Mary’s Gaels men’s basketball team makes history, heads to NCAA tournament

The St. Mary’s Gaels men’s basketball team made history this season by winning the West Coast Conference regular season and... Read more

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By Daniel Payne

Montana Supreme Court OKs pro-abortion measure for voters in 2024

The measure as described on the secretary of state’s website would “[prohibit] the government from denying or burdening the right... Read more

Rosa María Payá coordinates the pro-Cuba democracy platform Cuba Decide. She is the daughter of the revered late Catholic Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá.?w=200&h=150

By Eduardo Berdejo

‘Cuba Decides’ initiative says Cubans are ready to transition to democracy

The Cuba Decides initiative is calling on the international community to support the country’s peaceful transition to democracy. Read more

Pope Francis venerates the Salus Populi Romani icon in the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Dec. 8, 2023.?w=200&h=150

By Matthew Santucci

Pope Francis changes statutes of papal basilica, emphasizing work of canons 

The new regulations place emphasis on spiritual work and pastoral care and appointing a coadjutor archpriest of the West’s oldest... Read more

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, urges the Supreme Court to restore abortion pill restrictions at a Capitol Hill press conference hosted by Reps. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, and August Pfluger, R-Texas, Mar. 21, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Peter Pinedo

‘Women should be outraged’: Lawmakers urge Supreme Court to restore abortion pill restrictions

Speaking at a Capitol Hill press conference on Thursday, lawmakers and activists said it was crucial that the court rule... Read more

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By Tyler Arnold

Fetal homicide law used in New Hampshire for first time in murder of mother and child

A New Hampshire man was charged with the murder of a pregnant woman and her unborn child, the first time... Read more

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Swiss Guard cadets prepare their armor in the guards' barracks at the Vatican on April 30, 2024.

An afternoon with the new Swiss Guards: Preparing for a mission of faith and service 

In an aerial view, the cargo ship Dali sits in the water after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024, in Baltimore.

Special remembrance of Baltimore bridge collapse victims to take place on National Maritime Day

Pope Francis greets the crowd gathered at St. Peter's Square on May 5, 2024.

Pope Francis: Let us thank the Lord for our friends

The "Holy Fire" is passed from inside Christ's tomb to pilgrims gathered inside the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jersusalem on May 4, 2024, for the annual Orthodox Christian ceremony, held on the day before Easter, according to the Julian calendar.

‘Holy Fire’ ceremony at Jesus’ tomb marks beginning of Orthodox Easter celebrations

Archbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias of Angola’s Archdiocese of Luanda.

Angola archdiocese announces monthly Eucharistic adoration ahead of Church’s 2025 Jubilee

A patient at the new Misky María Palliative Care Hospital located on the outskirts of Lima, Perú.

New palliative care hospital brings ‘sweetness of Mary’ to poorest in Peru

Professor Mouna Maroun is the first Arab to be elected as the rector of an Israeli university, the University of Haifa. Maroun belongs to the Arab minority in Israel, the Christian minority among Arabs, and the Maronite minority among Christians. She says she is proud of her religious affiliation and wears a golden crucifix around her neck. "My election is an important message that everything is possible in the Israeli academia," she told CNA.

First Arab Christian woman to lead Israel’s University of Haifa

Mother Marla Marie stands on the front porch of the sisters’ Mother of the Light convent in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

From the Washington Post to the Maronite convent: Meet Mother Marla Marie

Father Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, discusses the protests at Columbia University in New York City on EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” on May 2, 2024.

Columbia’s Catholic chaplain: Campus protests were pushed by ‘explicitly communist’ outsiders

President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesuit Father Greg Boyle on May 3, 2024.

Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesuit priest for work with youth

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