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CNA Staff, Jul 17, 2020 / 08:30 am (CNA).- Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has said that he regrets that an increasing number of people are leaving the Church in Austria.  In an interview with Austrian Church newspapers, he said: “There is a phenomenon that affects the Church worldwide and especially us here in Austria: that is,… Read More »

Vatican City, Jul 17, 2020 / 07:00 am (CNA).- Pope Francis offered his condolences after Polish Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski died early Friday at the age of 80. The cardinal had worked closely with popes St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI as the former prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education. The Polish bishops’ conference… Read More »

Rome Newsroom, Jul 17, 2020 / 06:30 am (CNA).- On Easter Sunday in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, three innocent women were burned and tortured while local Catholics were at Mass for the Resurrection of the Lord. “One cannot ignore the diabolical irony of this,” wrote Sr. Lorena Jenal, a Catholic missionary in… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 16, 2020 / 02:01 pm (CNA).- A group of conservative figures called on Congress Thursday to expand tax credits for families to ease the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a July 16 letter to the leaders of Congress, the signers called for an expansion of the Child Tax Credit  and the… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 16, 2020 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- The second of five federal prisoners slated for execution was killed in the early hours of Thursday, July 16.  Wesley Ira Purkey, 68, was originally scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening. The execution was delayed as a series of last-minute legal filings arguing that Purkey was not… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 16, 2020 / 12:55 pm (CNA).-   The city council of Ventura, California has voted to remove a statue of St. Junipero Serra from the grounds of city hall, amid riots and protests in other California cities that have resulted in the destruction of several statues of the saint in recent months.… Read More »

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 16, 2020 / 12:32 pm (CNA).- The recent series of attacks on church buildings and property continued Tuesday night, as a statue of Christ was toppled and beheaded at a Miami parish and a statue of Mary was daubed with red paint in Colorado Springs.  Recent weeks have seen a rolling… Read More »

Rome, Italy, Jul 16, 2020 / 11:10 am (CNA).- A Catholic community welcomed Thursday the first refugees to arrive in Rome via a humanitarian corridor through the island of Lesbos since Italy’s coronavirus lockdown.  The 10 refugees from Afghanistan had been stuck in transit in the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island. The camp… Read More »

Rome Newsroom, Jul 15, 2020 / 01:25 pm (CNA).- Facing the global coronavirus pandemic, Palestine has “the special and unique challenges of being under colonialism and a touristic country,” a Palestinian Catholic from the Bethlehem area told CNA. Rula Shomali, communications officer at the Latin Catholic Patriarchate of Jerusalem, told CNA that Palestinians, and especially… Read More »

CNA Staff, Jul 15, 2020 / 12:30 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis has elevated a California mission church founded by St. Junipero Serra to the rank of minor basilica. The San Buenaventura Mission in Ventura was granted the title by the pope in an announcement from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Wednesday, the feast of St.… Read More »