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catholicworldreport.com | Daniel Payne |Catherine Harmon
Catholic-backed suit to protect Native American site wins temporary block in federal court By Daniel Payne for CNA An activist protests on Capitol Hill July 22, 2015 in Washington, DC. Members of the San Carlos Apache Nation and other activists gathered to protest the a section of the National Defense Authorization Act that would turn over parts of Oak Flat that are sacred to the Apache to a foreign copper mining company.
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catholicworldreport.com | Madalaine Elhabbal |Catherine Harmon
Washington D.C., Jan 6, 2018 / 01:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- While the hustle and bustle of Christmas ends for many people on Dec. 26, throughout Christian history Christmas lasts for twelve days – all the way until Jan. 6. This feast marking the end of Christmas is called “Epiphany.”In the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, Epiphany celebrates the revelation that Jesus was the Son of God.
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catholicworldreport.com | Daniel Payne |Catherine Harmon
Police arrest Pennsylvania man for detonating explosive inside Catholic chapel By Daniel Payne for CNA An explosive device detonates at St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. / Credit: Courtesy of St. Teresa of Calcutta ParishCNA Staff, May 9, 2025 / 12:56 pm (CNA). Police in a small Pennsylvania town have arrested a man they claim detonated an explosive on the altar of a small Catholic chapel this week.
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catholicworldreport.com | Francesca Pollio Fenton |Catherine Harmon
Vatican City, Aug 26, 2018 / 07:05 pm (CNA).- Please read below for CNA’s full transcript of the Pope’s Aug. 26 in-flight press conference from Dublin to Rome: Greg Burke: Holy Father, thanks for this time you’re dedicating to us after two intense days. Certainly, there were difficult moments.
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catholicworldreport.com | Daniel Payne |Catherine Harmon
Department of Justice says data breach exposed information on diocesan sex abuse survivors By Daniel Payne for CNA U.S. Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCNA Staff, May 9, 2025 / 13:32 pm (CNA). The U.S. Department of Justice says a recent data breach of a California consulting firm exposed data of Catholic clergy abuse survivors in nearly a dozen bankruptcy lawsuits.
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catholicworldreport.com | Hannah Brockhaus |Catherine Harmon
White or black: How the conclave smoke gets made By Hannah Brockhaus for CNA Black smoke billows from the chimney at 11:53 a.m. local time over St. Peter’s Square on May 8, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAVatican City, May 8, 2025 / 10:20 am (CNA). It’s probably the most-watched smoke in the world: The billows of exhaust unfurl before the watchful eyes of thousands every conclave — the only communication allowed from the cardinals locked inside the Sistine Chapel to decide the next pope.
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catholicworldreport.com | Kate Quinones |Catherine Harmon
The Room of Tears: Where new popes go right after their election By Kate Quiñones for CNA Vestments rest in the Room of Tears at the Sistine Chapel ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. / Credit: Vatican MediaCNA Staff, May 7, 2025 / 13:00 pm (CNA). When Pope Leo XIII was elected in 1878, the story goes that he wept. At age 67, he thought he was too old for the job. (He lived to be the second-oldest pope and died at the age of 93).
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catholicworldreport.com | Julieta Villar |Zoe Romanowsky |Catherine Harmon
The history behind ‘habemus papam’ and the white smoke that announces a new pope By Julieta Villar , Zoe Romanowsky for CNA White smoke rises from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on March 13, 2013, signaling that the College of Cardinals has elected a new pope. / Credit: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty ImagesACI Prensa Staff, May 6, 2025 / 17:41 pm (CNA).
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catholicworldreport.com | Kate Quinones |Catherine Harmon
null / Credit: BAUER Alexandre/ShutterstockCNA Staff, May 4, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Dr. Christopher Stroud was a Catholic OB-GYN who prescribed birth control and gave referrals for in vitro fertilization (IVF) until a priest admonished him in the sacrament of reconciliation. Now Stroud runs a life-affirming fertility clinic that uses Natural Procreative Technology — a treatment model that embraces life-affirming Catholic ethics. “It changed my life,” Stroud said of the confession.
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catholicworldreport.com | Daniel Payne |Catherine Harmon
Groundbreaking archive in Ohio aims to preserve the history of U.S. women religious By Daniel Payne for CNA Archivists show a handwritten book of the Rule of St. Augustine found in the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine’s archives, an example of the materials that will be preserved in WRAC’s future heritage center. / Credit: Courtesy of the Women Religious Archives CollaborativeCNA Staff, May 1, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
