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CNA Staff, Oct 5, 2020 / 12:01 pm (CNA).- Fr. Salvatore DiStefano, a former boys' prep school chaplain in New Jersey, was charged Thursday with use of children to commit a crime, and child endangerment. “I want to recognize Attorney General Grewal’s Clergy Abuse Task Force and our Special Victims Unit for exhaustively and professionally… Read More »

CNA Staff, Oct 5, 2020 / 11:30 am (CNA).- The bishops of the United States have praised the release of Pope Francis’ new encyclical, calling it a “profound and beautiful” treatment of human dignity.  After the text of the new papal document, "Fratelli tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship," was released on Sunday, Archbishop Jose… Read More »

Vatican City, Oct 4, 2020 / 08:05 am (CNA).- A Vatican presentation Sunday for Pope Francis’ third encyclical, “Fratelli tutti,” highlighted the involvement of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity and its plans to promote the document. “Fratelli tutti” was presented to journalists and other guests at the Vatican Oct. 4, shortly before its release.… Read More »

Vatican City, Oct 4, 2020 / 05:35 am (CNA).- Pope Francis introduced his new encyclical, “Fratelli tutti,” in his Angelus address Sunday, saying that “human fraternity and the care of creation” were the only paths forward for humanity. Speaking from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square Oct. 4, the pope recalled that he visited Assisi… Read More »

Vatican City, Oct 4, 2020 / 04:17 am (CNA).- Pope Francis presented his vision for overcoming the world’s growing divisions, laid bare by the coronavirus crisis, in his new encyclical Fratelli tutti, published Sunday.  In the letter, released Oct. 4, the pope urged people of good will to promote fraternity through dialogue, renewing society by… Read More »

CNA Staff, Oct 4, 2020 / 03:06 am (CNA).- Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, has formed an advisory council on racism, the diocese announced this week. The Bishop’s Advisory Council on Racism includes 14 members – both clergy and lay people – who will serve for three years. They will work to help identify… Read More »

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 3, 2020 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- Could car seat mandates have caused a decline in births in the U.S. in recent decades? A recent working paper claims that they have. According to the working paper “Car Seats as Contraception” written in July by finance professors Jordan Dickerson of MIT and David… Read More »

CNA Staff, Oct 3, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).-   The American Medical Association on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision that upheld a ban on federal family planning funds for abortion providers. Last year, the Trump administration finalized the “Protect Life Rule,” which bars Title X fund recipients from… Read More »

CNA Staff, Oct 3, 2020 / 08:45 am (CNA).- Pope Francis signed his new encyclical, Fratelli tutti, Saturday during a visit to Assisi. In his first official trip outside Rome since the pandemic struck Italy, the pope celebrated Mass at the tomb of his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi. “Fratelli tutti,” the encyclical’s opening words, means “All… Read More »

Denver Newsroom, Oct 3, 2020 / 06:26 am (CNA).- The canonization cause is progressing for Father Patrick Ryan, a priest who sacrificed his life in a nineteenth century yellow fever epidemic to serve the sick. Bishop Richard Stika of Nashville, Tenn., has launched an official tribunal to continue the inquiry into whether he should be… Read More »