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CNA Staff, Aug 25, 2020 / 10:57 am (CNA).- A hermitage outside the small town of Planes, Spain was desecrated this month. Vandals robbed the building and damaged parts of the chapel. Christ Most Holy hermitage is located outside Planes in Alicante Province, about 25 miles from Spain’s central coast on the Mediterranean. The local… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 25, 2020 / 10:37 am (CNA).- The woman who yelled at a lector and punched her twice during Mass at the Philadelphia cathedral is not mentally fit to be prosecuted, a local journalist reported Monday. Joe Holden, an anchor and reporter for CBS3 Philadelphia, tweeted Aug. 24 that police had apprehended the… Read More »

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 25, 2020 / 09:30 am (CNA).- A Catholic publisher has apologized for using a Mormon image on the cover of two of its 2021 publications. Oregon Catholic Press said the use of the image of the Mormon figure of Moroni was a mistake, and the company believed it to be a… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 25, 2020 / 09:15 am (CNA).- The first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention in Charlotte featured prayers from a cardinal, appeals to religious freedom and school choice, and condemnations of abortion and assisted suicide. Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York delivered the opening invocation for the evening portion of the… Read More »

Washington D.C., Aug 24, 2020 / 12:30 pm (CNA).-   After President Trump welcomed an endorsement as “the most pro-gay president in American history,” some of the president’s Catholic supporters have disputed the label. The pro-LGBT group Log Cabin Republicans tweeted a video on Wednesday morning calling Trump “the most pro-gay president in American history,”… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 24, 2020 / 11:30 am (CNA).- Milwaukee’s archbishop is praying for peace following a shooting by police of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday.   “It is with a heavy heart that I received the news about the shooting last night in Kenosha,” Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee said… Read More »

Rome, Italy, Aug 24, 2020 / 11:24 am (CNA).- Pope Francis called an Italian cardinal heading to Lourdes on pilgrimage Monday to ask for his prayers at the shrine for himself and “for some situations to be resolved.” According to the vicar general of Rome, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, Pope Francis called him early in… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 24, 2020 / 10:15 am (CNA).- The Bishop of Madison expressed his frustration this weekend after Dane County, Wisconsin, ordered all schools in the county to start the academic year online. The county issued the order Friday, giving local Catholic schools less than three day’s notice before the beginning of the academic… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 23, 2020 / 04:00 pm (CNA).-   Pharmaceutical company Bayer has agreed on a $1.6 billion settlement payout for women who were injured by its now-discontinued sterilization device, Essure. The settlement was announced on Thursday, August 20. Bayer stopped selling Essure in the United States in 2018, one year after it stopped… Read More »