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CNA Staff, Oct 6, 2020 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- Face coverings must be worn outdoors within the territory of Vatican City State to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, a Vatican official announced Tuesday. In a Oct. 6 letter to Vatican department heads, Bishop Fernando Vérgez, Secretary General of the Governorate of Vatican City State,… Read More »

Rome Newsroom, Oct 6, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- Ahead of the expected renewal of the Vatican-China deal this month, the former underground bishop of Mindong has announced his complete resignation from public life. Bishop Guo Xijin, 62, wrote in a letter published by Asia News Oct. 5 explaining that he was retiring to concentrate… Read More »

CNA Staff, Oct 6, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).- The U.S. bishops’ religious freedom chair has called for better protection of churches and other houses of worship, following a recent series of acts of vandalism. Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami joined other religious leaders in a letter to congressional leaders on Monday, asking for quadrupled… Read More »

CNA Staff, Oct 6, 2020 / 09:30 am (CNA).-   Former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, repeated his pledge to codify a right to abortion into federal law should the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision be overturned by the Supreme Court. Speaking at an outdoor town hall event airing on… Read More »

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 5, 2020 / 01:45 pm (CNA).-   Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito on Monday said that the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling is already posing problems for religious freedom. “By choosing to privilege a novel constitutional right [to same-sex marriage] over the religious liberty interests explicitly protected in the First Amendment,… Read More »

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 5, 2020 / 01:30 pm (CNA).- Late last week, multiple Italian newspapers reported that Cardinal Angelo Becciu has been accused of sending 700,000 euros of Vatican funds to Australia during Cardinal George Pell’s trial on charges of sexual abuse.  Those reports, following Becciu’s resignation 10 days ago, come amid a flurry… Read More »

Denver Newsroom, Oct 5, 2020 / 12:29 pm (CNA).-   When an allegation against a high-ranking churchman makes its way from Vatican-watchers to Italian newspapers to American headlines in just a matter of days, it’s a safe bet the story will have something to do with sex. And if it’s an allegation that pertains to… Read More »

CNA Staff, Oct 5, 2020 / 12:01 pm (CNA).- Fr. Salvatore DiStefano, a former boys' prep school chaplain in New Jersey, was charged Thursday with use of children to commit a crime, and child endangerment. “I want to recognize Attorney General Grewal’s Clergy Abuse Task Force and our Special Victims Unit for exhaustively and professionally… Read More »

CNA Staff, Oct 5, 2020 / 11:30 am (CNA).- The bishops of the United States have praised the release of Pope Francis’ new encyclical, calling it a “profound and beautiful” treatment of human dignity.  After the text of the new papal document, "Fratelli tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship," was released on Sunday, Archbishop Jose… Read More »