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1 week ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Madalaine Elhabbal |Gibbons J. Cooney
CNA Staff, Oct 6, 2020 / 09:30 am (CNA).- Former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, repeated his pledge to codify a right to abortion into federal law should the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision be overturned by the Supreme Court. Speaking at an outdoor town hall event airing on NBC Monday, Biden was asked what he would do to protect “reproductive health rights” should Judge Amy Coney Barrett be confirmed to the Supreme Court.
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4 weeks ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Kate Quinones |Gibbons J. Cooney
Australian study finds ‘lifelong benefits’ to Catholic education By Kate Quiñones for CNA null / Credit: RasyidArt/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Mar 27, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). A recent Australian study based on government data found that people who attended Catholic schools saw “lifelong benefits” across employment, health, and general life satisfaction.
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1 month ago | 
catholicworldreport.com | Tyler Arnold |Gibbons J. Cooney
Pittsburgh, Pa., May 25, 2017 / 06:00 pm (CNA).- On Tuesday, a “Consistent Life Ethic” group was booted from sponsorship of the Pittsburgh March Against War after Facebook complaints against their pro-life stance. Rehumanize International, previously Life Matters Journal, is a group that opposes all violence against human beings, including abortion, war, euthanasia, torture, capital punishment and human sex trafficking.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Carl Olson |Gibbons J. Cooney
(Image: Screenshot / www.synod.va/en.html)Polls, as a rule of thumb, should be taken with a grain of salt. Or even, at times, with a salt shaker. That said, the recent online poll by @Synod.va—the official X (formerly Twitter) account of the Secretariat of the Synod—was surprising. When I took a screenshot of it on the afternoon of Friday, July 26, nearly 6,000 votes had been cast.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Joe Bukuras |Gibbons J. Cooney
Harvard University. / Credit: Jon Bilous/ShutterstockBoston, Mass., Jun 17, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). As Harvard University undergoes the process of returning some of the thousands of Indigenous human remains in its possession to those with cultural, ancestral, or religious ties to them, one Catholic group is calling on the university to return a sacred first-class relic of St. Sebastian to the Catholic Church.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Tyler Arnold |Gibbons J. Cooney
U.S. birth and fertility rates drop to record lows, according to CDC report By Tyler Arnold for CNA null / Credit: KieferPix/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 26, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA). Provisional data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week showed that the fertility rate in the United States hit a record low and the total number of births in the country was the lowest it’s been in decades.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Daniel Payne |Gibbons J. Cooney
Wisconsin bishop accuses Archbishop Viganò of ‘public defamation’ By Daniel Payne for CNA Archbishop Carlo Vigano. / Edward Pentin/National Catholic RegisterCNA Newsroom, Apr 6, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA). A Wisconsin bishop has publicly rebuked the former apostolic nuncio to the United States, accusing him of defamation and a possibly illicit ordination.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | David G. Bonagura |Gibbons J. Cooney
Can secular arguments stop assisted suicide? When everything we do and endure has eternal value, then, and only then, can we muster the strength to watch our loved ones suffer, and suffer a similar fate ourselves. (Image: PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay)New York and Massachusetts legislatures are preparing to join ten states in legalizing assisted suicide. Others are likely to follow.
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Aug 26, 2023 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Madeleine Teahan |Gibbons J. Cooney
Rendition of the Eternal Wall interactive monument being constructed near Birmingham, England, featuring a million prayers. It is expected to be completed in 2026. / Photo courtesy of Eternal WallLondon, England, Aug 26, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). The building of a major Christian monument in the heart of the United Kingdom is expected to be completed by 2026.
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Apr 13, 2023 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Tyler Arnold |Gibbons J. Cooney
Knock Shrine is the site of of an apparition of Mary, the Mother of God; St. Joseph, her spouse; and St. John the Evangelist in 1879. / Geyo John|Wikimedia|CC BY-SA 3.0Washington D.C., Apr 13, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). During President Joe Biden’s four-day trip to Ireland, he plans to visit Our Lady of Knock in Knock, County Mayo, which witnesses claim was the site of an apparition of Mary, the Mother of God; St. Joseph, her spouse; and St. John the Evangelist in 1879.
