CNA Staff
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Articles by CNA Staff
Canon lawyers to review abuse study contracts in Germany’s troubled Cologne archdiocese
Dec 9, 2021 / 09:00 amThe contracts relate to a landmark report released in March.
Abortion buffer zones: Pro-lifers accuse Northern Ireland human rights commissioner of ‘weasel words’
Dec 9, 2021 / 05:30 amA new bill would criminalize pro-lifers found ‘influencing’ women inside buffer zones.
Christian legal group: Slovenian court ruling against pro-lifers a ‘blow’ to free expression
Dec 9, 2021 / 04:00 amA pro-life advertising campaign was removed from buses in 2018.
University to host center for study of Polish Catholics and Jews who saved lives under Nazism and communism
Dec 8, 2021 / 14:00 pmThe center will be based at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.
Switzerland’s Catholic Church approves independent abuse study
Dec 8, 2021 / 13:00 pmThe project will begin in March 2022.
Pope Francis: Sagrada Familia’s new star shines for Barcelona’s poor, ill, elderly, and young people
Dec 8, 2021 / 12:00 pmThe 12-pointed illuminated star sits atop basilica’s soaring Tower of the Virgin Mary.
Pope Francis hails ‘the beauty of Mary’s heart’ on Immaculate Conception feast
Dec 8, 2021 / 05:45 amThe pope leads the Angelus prayer on Marian solemnities, as well as Sundays.
Pope Francis makes early morning visit to Immaculate Conception statue in Rome
Dec 8, 2021 / 01:17 amThe pope made the private visit to the statue shortly after 6 a.m.
Synod of Bishops removes resource page link to New Ways Ministry
Dec 7, 2021 / 12:40 pmThe U.S. bishops’ conference expressed its disapproval of the LGBT outreach ministry in 2010.
1 million Afghan children could starve this winter. This humanitarian group desperately needs your help
Dec 7, 2021 / 09:38 amA new initiative is asking Americans for donations this Christmas to help save Christians who risk death in Afghanistan during the brutal winter. Its goal is to provide a “safe winter” for the men, women, and children located there.
Scientists reconstructed the face of St. Nicholas – here’s what they found
Dec 6, 2021 / 14:00 pmScientists at a university in Liverpool unveiled what they say is the most realistic portrait ever created of St. Nicholas of Myra, the popular 4th century bishop best known as the inspiration for the modern-day figure of Santa Claus.
Pope Francis: EU commission guide discouraging word ‘Christmas’ was an anachronism
Dec 6, 2021 / 08:45 amHe noted that a series of ideologies had attempted to pull up Europe’s Christian roots.
Pope Francis to youth in Greece: Don’t be ‘prisoners of the cell phone’
Dec 6, 2021 / 04:20 amThe pope’s address concluded his three-day visit to Greece.
Catholics killed after bus plunges into river in Kenya
Dec 6, 2021 / 03:48 amThe bus passengers, including children, were on their way to a wedding.
Smallness can be a blessing, Pope Francis tells Greece's Catholic minority
Dec 4, 2021 / 13:40 pmThe smallness of a Christian community can be a sign of closeness to God, Pope Francis told members of Greece’s tiny Catholic minority in Athens Saturday evening. He reflected on the example of St. Paul in evangelizing ancient Greece and proclaiming that their pagan culture held the seeds of Christian faith.
Pope Francis decries global ‘retreat from democracy’ in Athens speech
Dec 4, 2021 / 04:55 amThe pope arrived in Greece after a two-day visit to Cyprus.
PHOTOS: The funeral of Fra’ Matthew Festing, the Order of Malta’s 79th Grand Master
Dec 4, 2021 / 04:00 amHe was interred in the Crypt of the Grand Masters at St. John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta.
Archbishop Gänswein: Benedict XVI had three COVID-19 vaccine doses ‘out of conviction’
Dec 3, 2021 / 12:00 pmHe said: ‘One must not force anyone to vaccinate ... But one should appeal to the conscience.’
Apostolic nuncio to EU dies after contracting COVID-19
Dec 3, 2021 / 08:10 amA cardinal said that Archbishop Giordano ‘left a lasting mark on all of us.’
Pope Francis to Catholics in Cyprus: ‘Jesus alone frees the heart from evil’
Dec 3, 2021 / 04:23 amAn estimated 10,000 attended the Mass in Nicosia’s GSP Stadium.