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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 25, 2020 / 02:10 pm (CNA).- Catholic columnist Ross Douthat on Wednesday said that the eventual next conclave could produce a leader in the mould of St. John Paul II, and that expectations of a more retiring successor to the charismatic leadership of Francis may shift after months of global upheaval.… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jun 25, 2020 / 12:01 pm (CNA).- The parliament of the Channel Island of Guernsey voted Wednesday to approve a bill expanding abortion time limits, and removing time limits altogether on the abortion of unborn children with disabilities. Votes held June 24 on 12 propositions made by the health and social care committee… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jun 25, 2020 / 11:48 am (CNA).- Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski has called for a moratorium on the United States’ deportation of Haitians during the coronavirus pandemic, warning that Haiti’s healthcare system is not prepared to manage a widespread coronavirus outbreak. “An ongoing surge of infection could destroy an already weakened economy and… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jun 25, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).- As police reform legislation is currently stuck in the Senate, leading U.S. bishops wrote members of Congress on Wednesday outlining Catholic principles of policing. Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, Bishop Mario Dorsonville, auxiliary bishop of Washington, and Bishop Shelton Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux sent a joint… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jun 25, 2020 / 09:30 am (CNA).- England’s metropolitan archbishops urged Catholics Thursday to consider going to Mass during the week rather than on Sunday after public liturgies resume July 4.  In a message to the Catholic community in England June 25, the four Church leaders noted that the number of people permitted… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jun 24, 2020 / 02:05 pm (CNA).- Cardinal John Tong Hon, the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Hong Kong, has rejected concerns that new security and sedition laws for the province pose a risk to religious freedom.  “I personally believe that the National Security Law will have no effect on religious freedom, because… Read More »

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 24, 2020 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- A federal religious freedom commissioner has said there is “no excuse” for the Trump administration “delaying action” to place sanctions on Chinese officials for abuses committed in the mass internment of Uyghurs.   Nury Turkel, a commissioner of the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), said… Read More »

Rome, Italy, Jun 24, 2020 / 11:00 am (CNA).- At his baptism at a Catholic church in Shanghai, Dalù said that he “cried like a baby” knowing that his sins were being washed away. His journey to faith began with singing Christmas carols in 2009, and eventually led him to seek asylum in Rome. “I… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jun 24, 2020 / 09:30 am (CNA).- The mayor of a Dutch town has condemned vandals who defaced an image of Our Lady of Częstochowa and daubed the letters “BLM” beneath it. Paul Depla, the mayor of Breda, a city in the southern Netherlands, said the incident was “particularly sad for the Polish… Read More »

Vatican City, Jun 24, 2020 / 09:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis has written a letter of encouragement to Alex Zanardi, a Formula One driver turned Paralympic champion who is in a coma following a collision last Friday.  In the letter, published June 24 in the Italian sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, the pope said that Zanardi… Read More »