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Vatican City, Jul 18, 2020 / 08:58 am (CNA).- Pope Francis Saturday named Italian surgeon Giovanni Battista Doglietto as director of the Vatican health fund known as Fondo di Assistenza Sanitaria (FAS). The appointment follows the departure of the previous FAS director Stefano Loreti, who held the position since January 2017. Doglietto, 72, was a… Read More »

Rome Newsroom, Jul 18, 2020 / 04:36 am (CNA).- A fire being investigated as arson at a historic cathedral in western France Saturday morning has been contained, according to the local fire chief, though not before the Gothic church’s great organ and rose window sustained severe damage. Fire Chief Laurent Ferlay told French television BFM… Read More »

Denver Newsroom, Jul 18, 2020 / 04:00 am (CNA).- When the coronavirus pandemic necessitated widespread shutdowns, Catholic parishes were among those to feel the financial pinch almost immediately. No people in the pews meant no money in the collection basket. Mass after Mass, weekend after weekend, that loss added up. Sacred Heart Catholic Church in… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 17, 2020 / 07:00 pm (CNA).-   The Diocese of Hong Kong has been targeted by “spear-phishing” operations from the Chinese government, a technology publication is reporting. According to ZDNet, hackers associated with the Chinese government have repeatedly attacked officials with the Diocese of Hong Kong with legitimate-looking documents that actually install… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 17, 2020 / 06:29 pm (CNA).- In a time of significant social and civil upheaval due to a pandemic, civil unrest over racial inequality, and legal threats to religious freedom, a group of Catholic health care workers are offering a virtual conference on the future of Catholic health care in the United… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 17, 2020 / 12:18 pm (CNA).-   Louisiana's governor will be skipping lunch next week, and is encouraging Louisianans of all faiths to do the same. The governor has called for three days of prayer and fasting for people affected by coronavirus. New Orleans' archbishop says he hopes Catholics of the state… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 17, 2020 / 09:01 am (CNA).-   A church in the New Haven, Connecticut parish at which the Knights of Columbus was founded was vandalized this week, with a satanic symbol painted on the door. Fr. Michael McGivney, who will soon be beatified, began his priestly ministry at St. Mary’s Parish in… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 17, 2020 / 08:30 am (CNA).- Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has said that he regrets that an increasing number of people are leaving the Church in Austria.  In an interview with Austrian Church newspapers, he said: “There is a phenomenon that affects the Church worldwide and especially us here in Austria: that is,… Read More »

Vatican City, Jul 17, 2020 / 07:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis offered his condolences after Polish Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski died early Friday at the age of 80. The cardinal had worked closely with popes St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI as the former prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education. The Polish bishops’ conference… Read More »

Rome Newsroom, Jul 17, 2020 / 06:30 am (CNA).- On Easter Sunday in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, three innocent women were burned and tortured while local Catholics were at Mass for the Resurrection of the Lord. “One cannot ignore the diabolical irony of this,” wrote Sr. Lorena Jenal, a Catholic missionary in… Read More »