Trump commits to keeping abortion pill available
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 13, 2024 / 18:40 pm President-elect Donald Trump vowed he would not use his executive authority to restrict access to the abortion pill…
Supreme Court to hear Catholic Charities case on whether serving the poor is religious act
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Dec 13, 2024 / 18:20 pm The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case brought by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of…
Cardinal Cupich asks Catholics ‘to receive holy Communion standing’ in Chicago Archdiocese
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 13, 2024 / 17:45 pm Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago in a letter published this week in the archdiocesan newspaper…
Archbishop Cordileone wants to encourage a devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe in U.S.
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Dec 13, 2024 / 17:15 pm Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco is launching a project to increase devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe in…
Overturning Nancy Pelosi’s Communion ban: It’s too late for an appeal, expert says
By Kristina Millare Vatican City, Dec 13, 2024 / 16:35 pm Despite former speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent statement that she has appealed to the Vatican to overturn the Communion ban…
Vatican opens first day care for employees’ children
By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú Vatican City, Dec 13, 2024 / 16:05 pm The employees who work behind the walls of the smallest country in the world will now have a day…
Pope Francis: St. Lucy is an example of female leadership in the Church
By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú Vatican City, Dec 13, 2024 / 15:35 pm On the feast day of St. Lucy, Dec. 13, Pope Francis said that “we need women’s work and their…
FOCUS co-founders receive 2024 Mother Angelica Award
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Dec 13, 2024 / 13:50 pm EWTN Global Catholic Network presented the 2024 Mother Angelica Award to Curtis and Michaelann Martin, co-founders of the Fellowship…
Father Gus Taylor, co-founder of Black Catholic Clergy Caucus, dies at 84
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Dec 13, 2024 / 13:20 pm Father Gus Taylor, a U.S. priest who was key in several prominent 20th-century Black Catholic initiatives, passed away last…
Bethlehem artist defends presence of Palestinian keffiyeh in Nativity scene after backlash
By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Dec 13, 2024 / 12:50 pm A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem was the source of controversy this week for including a Palestinian…
U.S. bishops, Jewish advocacy group release Catholic guide to combating antisemitism
By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Dec 13, 2024 / 12:20 pm Amid rising antisemitism incidents in the United States, the U.S. bishops are collaborating with a Jewish advocacy group to…
Report: Policy of immigration enforcement treating churches as ‘sensitive areas’ could end
By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Dec 13, 2024 / 09:30 am The incoming presidential administration reportedly plans to end a long-standing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy requiring ICE…