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2 days ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Daniel Payne |Catherine Harmon
New Jersey parish employee pleads guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from 2 churches By Daniel Payne for CNA A New Jersey former parish bookkeeper has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from two parishes, June 3, 2025. / Credit: Zack McCarthy via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)CNA Staff, Jun 4, 2025 / 13:21 pm (CNA). A former parish employee in New Jersey has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from two parishes several months after she was accused of the thefts.
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3 days ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Daniel Payne |Catherine Harmon
Advocacy group launches campaign urging New York governor to force insurers to pay abuse claims By Daniel Payne for CNA A victims’ advocacy group is pressuring New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to force insurers to pay abuse claims. / Credit: lev radin/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Jun 3, 2025 / 15:50 pm (CNA). A victim advocacy group launched an ad campaign urging New York Gov.
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catholicworldreport.com | Victoria Isabel Cardiel |Catherine Harmon
A view of the Vatican Apostolic Library in 2021. / Credit: Franco Origlia/Getty ImagesVatican City, Jun 2, 2025 / 12:17 pm (CNA). The Vatican Library is the custodian of a major part of humanity’s literary heritage.
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6 days ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom |Catherine Harmon
Fr. Alois Cheruiyot Bett was murdered in Kenya on May 22nd by bandits. (Image: Screenshot / KTN Kenya News, YouTube)The brutal killing of Kenyan priest Fr. Alois Cheruiyot Bett, pastor at the newly established St. Matthias Mulumba Tot parish in the Diocese of Eldoret, has sent shock waves in a region plagued by poverty and banditry. The priest was killed in an ambush on May 22nd, shortly after celebrating Mass in Kakbiken, a village in the Western Highlands of Kenya.
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catholicworldreport.com | Madalaine Elhabbal |Catherine Harmon
Foster care ministry leader calls on Catholics to open their homes to foster children By Madalaine Elhabbal for CNA Springs of Love ministry founder Kimberly Henkel (right) speaks with “EWTN Pro-life Weekly” host Abi Galvan on May 28, 2025. / Credit: “EWTN Pro-life Weekly”Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 29, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). A Catholic foster care ministry leader is calling for Catholic families to support vulnerable children and families by becoming foster parents.
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catholicworldreport.com | Edward Pentin |Catherine Harmon
A year-long controversy over the tragic case of the rape of a nineyear- old Brazilian girl, the abortion of her twins, and the comments of a senior Vatican official continues to rumble on. Catholics working in the pro-life movement say the “Recife Affair” is a very grave, scandalous, and unresolved matter that has sown confusion, given succor to the pro-abortion lobby, and continues to threaten the lives of thousands of unborn children.
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catholicworldreport.com | Solène Tadié |Catherine Harmon
Rome, Italy, Sep 26, 2017 / 12:24 am (CNA).- After a long struggle with alcoholism and homelessness, Melanie Medina has turned her life around. She said that a recent pilgrimage to Rome has proven that change is possible, and that “good things can happen.”Medina spoke to CNA at the end of a six-day visit to Rome. She is the fourth person selected to go on pilgrimage to Rome through Denver Homeless Ministries (DHM).
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2 weeks ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Daniel Payne |Catherine Harmon
Diocese of Charlotte will restrict Latin Mass in line with Pope Francis’ directive By Daniel Payne for CNA Priest celebrating the traditional Latin Mass at the church of St Pancratius, Rome / Thoom/ShutterstockCNA Newsroom, May 24, 2025 / 12:30 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina will significantly restrict the practice of the Traditional Latin Mass, limiting it to a single chapel in what Bishop Michael Martin OFM Conv.
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catholicworldreport.com | Kate Quinones |Catherine Harmon
(Left to right) Sister Vivien Linkhauer, Sister Gemma Del Duca, and students from Seton Hill University attend the planting of the Anne Frank tree in May 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Seton Hill UniversityCNA Staff, May 24, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). When Anne Frank was hiding in a secret annex for more than two years in Amsterdam during World War II, she would peer out a small window in the attic at a horse chestnut tree in the yard.
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catholicworldreport.com | Tyler Arnold |Catherine Harmon
New York court shields Christian photographer from ‘equal access’ sexual orientation law By Tyler Arnold for CNA null / Credit: sergign/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 23, 2025 / 15:51 pm (CNA). A federal court in New York has ordered the state to halt its enforcement of a law against a Christian photographer and blogger that would force her to express ideas on human sexuality that conflict with her religious faith.
