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Washington D.C., Feb 7, 2020 / 03:57 pm (CNA).- Reports of a new special adviser to the President on international religious freedom could be a game-changer for U.S. foreign policy, one expert said Friday. “It’s a very big deal. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has been recommending they fill this position for… Read More »

Washington D.C., Feb 7, 2020 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- Catholic theologian Charles Camosy has resigned from the board of Democrats for Life of America (DFLA), writing in an op-ed on Thursday that the Democratic Party’s extreme support of abortion left him “no choice” but to leave his party.   “Anything even hinting that abortion is… Read More »

Washington D.C., Feb 7, 2020 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg emphasized this week his position that abortion should be legally permitted at any point in a pregnancy.   Placing any limits on abortion “should be up to the woman who’s confronted with the choice,” rather than to lawmakers, the former mayor… Read More »

Fort Worth, Texas, Feb 7, 2020 / 11:16 am (CNA).- An appeals court heard arguments Tuesday regarding the medical treatment of a terminally ill child in Fort Worth, and whether a law regarding the dispute resolution process is constitutional. Tinslee Lewis was born prematurely Feb. 1, 2019, and has since been in the cardiac intensive… Read More »

Vatican City, Feb 7, 2020 / 10:51 am (CNA).- Six Catholic patriarchs from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Iraq met with Pope Francis at the Vatican Friday to discuss the difficulties faced by Christians in the region and their mass emigration. In the morning of Feb. 7, the pope met Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Chaldean Patriarch… Read More »

Vatican City, Feb 7, 2020 / 05:46 am (CNA).- Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the Amazon region will be published Feb. 12, the Vatican announced Friday. The document, which follows October’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, is highly anticipated for how the pope will respond to the recommendation to allow the ordination of married… Read More »

Vatican City, Feb 6, 2020 / 12:20 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis will make the final decision on when to publish a highly-anticipated report on former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Vatican's Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said Thursday. “I think that [the report] will come out soon, I cannot tell you exactly when,” Parolin told… Read More »

Washington D.C., Feb 6, 2020 / 11:00 am (CNA).- President Donald Trump chastised political opponents, touted strong economic numbers, and asked for votes at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday in Washington, D.C. At the beginning of his remarks, President Trump spoke of the “terrible ordeal” he had been through, caused, he said,  “by some… Read More »

Vatican City, Feb 6, 2020 / 10:37 am (CNA).- He is a Heisman Trophy winner, a two-time college football champion, a sports broadcaster, and one of the most watched players ever to play professional football, even while his career was short-lived. At 32, he is also a minor-league baseball player, taking the field with almost… Read More »

Philadelphia, Pa., Feb 6, 2020 / 07:00 am (CNA).- The U.S. bishops’ conference praised a Trump administration plan to expand school choice Wednesday, as Vice President Mike Pence paid a visit to a Catholic school in inner-city Philadelphia.  In a statement released Feb. 5, USCCB education committee chair Bishop Michael C. Barber, SJ, of the Diocese… Read More »