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Sacramento, Calif., Jan 2, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).- A three-year window opened in California Wednesday, allowing lawsuits over childhood sexual abuse that would normally be impeded by the state’s statute of limitations. The window was created when California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed AB 218 into law in October. In addition to the window,… Read More »

Phoenix, Ariz., Jan 1, 2020 / 09:27 am (CNA).- The crisis facing the Catholic Church today has arisen from an attempt – even by some within the Church – to align with the culture and abandon the teachings of the faith, said Cardinal Gerhard Mueller Jan. 1. “The crisis in the Church is man-made and… Read More »

Vatican City, Jan 1, 2020 / 06:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis apologized Wednesday for losing his patience with a woman who grabbed his arm in St. Peter’s Square on New Year’s Eve. “Many times we lose our patience; me too. I apologize for yesterday's bad example,” Pope Francis said in a departure from his prepared… Read More »

Vatican City, Jan 1, 2020 / 05:15 am (CNA).- Pope Francis began the new year with a call for the dignity of women to be honored — not exploited for profit and pornography — in 2020. “How many times is the woman's body sacrificed on the profane altars of advertising, profit, pornography, exploited as a… Read More »

Rome, Italy, Dec 31, 2019 / 07:01 pm (CNA).- There are many Catholic churches in Rome, but few can boast of having been built through the contributions of Catholics around the world as a gift to the pope. San Gioacchino ai Prati di Castello is an exception. Sitting less than a mile from St. Peter’s… Read More »

Fort Worth, Texas, Dec 31, 2019 / 12:49 pm (CNA).- Catholic leaders in Texas offered prayers following a deadly shooting at a Christian church on Sunday morning. “On behalf of the Catholic Community of the Diocese of Dallas, we extend heartfelt prayers for those affected by the shootings at West Freeway Church of Christ in… Read More »

Vatican City, Dec 31, 2019 / 10:35 am (CNA).- It is an act of love to spend time with others, to listen to them and their needs, and to try to see them as Christ sees them, Pope Francis said on New Year’s Eve. “We are called to meet others and listen to their life,… Read More »

Denver, Colo., Dec 31, 2019 / 10:15 am (CNA).- Here are a few of the best books we read in 2019, from some of the journalists at Catholic News Agency: Hannah Brockhaus, Senior Rome Correspondent: “The Enchanted April,” by Elizabeth Von Arnim. Four unacquainted English women, discontented with their very different lives, spend a month's… Read More »

Vatican City, Dec 30, 2019 / 12:22 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Prosper Grech, an internationally renowned theologian, died on Monday at the age of 94. Cardinal Grech was born on the island of Malta on Christmas Eve, 1925. He entered the Augustinian Order at the age of 29 and was ordained a priest in Rome in… Read More »

Washington D.C., Dec 30, 2019 / 11:09 am (CNA).- Helping Americans understand the importance of religious freedom, as well as a measured view of contemporary threats to it, is the goal of a recent book from a leading attorney in the field. Luke Goodrich has spent more than a decade at the religious freedom law… Read More »