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Guaita tower, San Marino

San Marino to vote on abortion legalization Sept. 26

Sep 20, 2021

By Jonah McKeown

The tiny European nation of San Marino, where abortion has been illegal for nearly a century and a half, is... Read more

A family participates in Poland's March for Life and the Family in Warsaw on Sept. 19, 2021.

Poland’s March for Life and the Family draws 5,000 people

Sep 20, 2021

By Courtney Mares

Thousands participated in the annual pro-life march in Warsaw on Sept. 19. Read more

Archbishop Domenico Battaglia holds a reliquary containing St. Januarius’ liquefied blood in Naples Cathedral, Italy, Sept. 19, 2021.

St. Januarius’ blood liquefies for the second time in 2021

Sep 19, 2021

By CNA Staff

Naples Archbishop Domenico Battaglia said: “We thank the Lord for this gift.” Read more

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UK woman who regrets teen gender transition sees court victory overturned on appeal

Sep 17, 2021

By Kevin J. Jones

A woman who says she was too young when a gender clinic prescribed her puberty blockers has lamented that a... Read more

The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Nov. 25, 2014. Credit: Alan Holdren/CNA.

Afghanistan’s Christians ‘completely ignored’ in European Parliament resolution

Sep 17, 2021

By CNA Staff

ADF International estimates that 10,000 Christians face danger in Afghanistan. Read more

Claudy bombing memorial statue created by sculptor Elizabeth McLaughlin

Priest’s rumored involvement in IRA bombings revisited in lawsuit against Derry diocese

Sep 17, 2021

By Kevin J. Jones

After the Northern Ireland government and police agreed to settle a lawsuit with several families of victims of a bombing... Read more

A press conference launching a report by a commision of experts on the activities of Polish Dominican priest Paweł M., Sept. 15, 2021.

Polish Catholic leader expresses ‘deep pain and sadness’ as report on charismatic priest faults Dominicans

Sep 17, 2021

By CNA Staff

Poland’s Dominican province apologized ‘for the wrong that has been done.’ Read more

Päivi Räsänen, Finland’s interior minister from 2011 to 2015.

Court date set for Finnish MP facing jail after tweeting Bible verse

Sep 16, 2021

By CNA Staff

Päivi Räsänen could be given a two-year prison sentence for the tweet. Read more

Pope Francis visits Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck at her home in Rome, Feb. 20, 2021.

Holocaust survivor thanks Pope Francis for highlighting anti-Semitism on Central Europe trip

Sep 15, 2021

By CNA Staff

Edith Bruck said: “Your words about anti-Semitism ... are more relevant than ever.” Read more

Pope Francis speaks during an in-flight press conference from Slovakia, Sept. 15, 2021

Pope Francis on COVID-19 vaccines: ‘Even in the College of Cardinals there are some deniers’

Sep 15, 2021

By CNA Staff

He added that “one of these, poor guy, is hospitalized with the virus.” Read more

Pope Francis, pictured April 17, 2013. Credit: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.

On papal flight, Pope Francis tackles debate over Communion for politicians who support abortion

Sep 15, 2021

By Courtney Mares

The pope addressed the controversy during an in-flight press conference. Read more

Archbishop Stefan Heße of Hamburg.

Pope Francis declines resignation of German Catholic archbishop

Sep 15, 2021

By CNA Staff

Hamburg Archbishop Stefan Heße announced in March that he was offering his resignation. Read more

Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the esplanade of the National Shrine in Šaštin, Slovakia, Sept. 15, 2021.

Pope Francis in Slovakia: Our Lady of Sorrows teaches us compassion for the suffering

Sep 15, 2021

By Hannah Brockhaus

The pope celebrated Mass at the national Catholic shrine in Šaštín. Read more

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British doctors’ union drops opposition to assisted suicide

Sep 14, 2021

By Christine Rousselle

The British Medical Association, the trade union for doctors in the United Kingdom, is no longer officially opposed to the... Read more

Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rai, the Maronite Patriarch, at the Vatican March 5, 2013.

Maronite Catholic patriarch welcomes Lebanon’s new government

Sep 14, 2021

By Courtney Mares

The move paves the way for a potential papal visit. Read more

Nancy Stewart

Beloved granny whose Catholic faith went viral on EWTN dies at 107

Sep 14, 2021

By Katie Yoder

Granny Nancy lived through two World Wars, survived the pandemic, and was born before her country – the Republic of... Read more

Pope Francis addresses young people at Lokomotiva Stadium in Košice, Slovakia, Sept. 14, 2021.

Pope Francis to Slovakia’s young Catholics: Confession is the ‘sacrament of joy’

Sep 14, 2021

By CNA Staff

The pope spoke to around 25,000 young people in Košice, eastern Slovakia. Read more

Pope Francis speaks to the Roma community in the Lunik IX district in Košice, Slovakia, on Sept. 14, 2021.

Pope Francis visits impoverished Roma minority in Slovakia

Sep 14, 2021

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis visited a Roma ghetto in Slovakia, where he told the ethnic minority they should never “worry about whether... Read more

Archbishop-elect Iosif Staneuski of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus.

Pope Francis names new Catholic archbishop for Belarus capital

Sep 14, 2021

By CNA Staff

He succeeds Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, who retired in January. Read more

Pope Francis presides at the Byzantine Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in Prešov, Slovakia, Sept. 14, 2021.

Christianity without the Cross is ‘sterile,’ says Pope Francis at Byzantine Divine Liturgy

Sep 14, 2021

By Courtney Mares

Around 40,000 people attended the liturgy in Prešov, Slovakia. Read more