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CNA Staff, Aug 25, 2020 / 09:15 am (CNA).- The first night of the 2020 Republican National Convention in Charlotte featured prayers from a cardinal, appeals to religious freedom and school choice, and condemnations of abortion and assisted suicide. Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York delivered the opening invocation for the evening portion of the… Read More »

Washington D.C., Aug 24, 2020 / 12:30 pm (CNA).-   After President Trump welcomed an endorsement as “the most pro-gay president in American history,” some of the president’s Catholic supporters have disputed the label. The pro-LGBT group Log Cabin Republicans tweeted a video on Wednesday morning calling Trump “the most pro-gay president in American history,”… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 24, 2020 / 11:30 am (CNA).- Milwaukee’s archbishop is praying for peace following a shooting by police of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday.   “It is with a heavy heart that I received the news about the shooting last night in Kenosha,” Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee said… Read More »

Rome, Italy, Aug 24, 2020 / 11:24 am (CNA).- Pope Francis called an Italian cardinal heading to Lourdes on pilgrimage Monday to ask for his prayers at the shrine for himself and “for some situations to be resolved.” According to the vicar general of Rome, Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, Pope Francis called him early in… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 24, 2020 / 10:15 am (CNA).- The Bishop of Madison expressed his frustration this weekend after Dane County, Wisconsin, ordered all schools in the county to start the academic year online. The county issued the order Friday, giving local Catholic schools less than three day’s notice before the beginning of the academic… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 23, 2020 / 04:00 pm (CNA).-   Pharmaceutical company Bayer has agreed on a $1.6 billion settlement payout for women who were injured by its now-discontinued sterilization device, Essure. The settlement was announced on Thursday, August 20. Bayer stopped selling Essure in the United States in 2018, one year after it stopped… Read More »

Vatican City, Aug 23, 2020 / 06:30 am (CNA).- Christian charity is more than simple philanthropy, Pope Francis said in his Angelus address Sunday. Speaking from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square Aug. 23, the pope said: “Christian charity is not simple philanthropy but, on the one hand, it is looking at others through the… Read More »

CNA Staff, Aug 22, 2020 / 03:29 pm (CNA).- Planned Parenthood has agreed to drop a lawsuit against an Indiana law requiring an ultrasound for women prior to having an abortion. “Due to events that have occurred in the more than three years since this court entered the preliminary injunction—including, Plaintiff’s addition of a new… Read More »

Denver Newsroom, Aug 22, 2020 / 02:10 pm (CNA).-   If you think you’re a priest, and you really aren’t, you have a problem. So do a lot of other people. The baptisms you performed are valid baptisms. But the confirmations? No. The Masses you celebrated were not valid. Nor the absolutions or anointings. And… Read More »

Washington D.C., Aug 22, 2020 / 11:08 am (CNA).-   A rose named for the late Pope St. John Paul II has been included in a renovation of the White House Rose Garden. The Pope John Paul II rose, a white tea rose cultivar, is included in a redesign of the Rose Garden overseen by… Read More »