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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 27, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).- The Holy See faces mounting criticism for its silence on human rights abuses in China ahead of the expected renewal of the controversial 2018 agreement. But is the Vatican’s silence strategic, and if so, is the strategy working? It has been two years since the… Read More »

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2020 / 11:35 am (CNA).- Catholics in Kenosha, Wisconsin, are praying for peace after a third night of violence following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. “The evil that they see is not everything,” a staffer at St. James Parish in downtown Kenosha told CNA on Wednesday, in reference to… Read More »

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2020 / 09:45 am (CNA).- Faith and social issues took center stage on night two of the Republican National Convention, as speakers said the Trump administration had worked to advance the cause of religious freedom, promoting pro-life causes, and criminal justice reform. Among the speakers was pro-life activist and former… Read More »

Rome Newsroom, Aug 26, 2020 / 07:30 am (CNA).- Archbishop Oscar Cruz died early Wednesday from coronavirus complications. He is believed to be the 10th Catholic bishop to die of COVID-19 since the outbreak of the global pandemic.  The current archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan in the Philippines said that Cruz, its archbishop emeritus, died after “multiple… Read More »

Vatican City, Aug 26, 2020 / 05:45 am (CNA).- Members of the public will be able to attend Pope Francis’ general audiences again from Sept. 2 after an almost six-month absence due to the coronavirus crisis. The Prefecture of the Papal Household announced Aug. 26 that the pope’s general audience next Wednesday would take place “with… Read More »

Vatican City, Aug 26, 2020 / 04:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis Wednesday encouraged Catholics to work to address the injustice of wealth inequality and its effects in the world, which he condemned as a “sickness.” “When the obsession with possessing and dominating excludes millions of people from primary goods; when economic and technological inequality is… Read More »

Rome Newsroom, Aug 25, 2020 / 11:15 am (CNA).- For more than 500 days a demonstrator has stood before South Korea’s government offices in a protest against the Constitutional Court’s decision to end the country’s abortion ban. As the deadline approaches for South Korea’s National Assembly to revise the country’s abortion law, Korean Catholics are… Read More »

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 »