Aaron P. Bernstein Outgoing HHS Office of Civil Rights Director Roger Severino speaks at a news conference announcing the the creation of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division at the Department of Health and Human Services Jan. 18, 2018, in Washington. The...
Washington D.C., Feb 5, 2021 / 04:00 pm (CNA).- Virginia’s two Catholic bishops welcomed the state legislature’s votes to abolish the death penalty this week. “We welcome today’s vote by the Virginia House of Delegates to abolish the death penalty, as well as...
Denver Newsroom, Feb 5, 2021 / 03:50 pm (CNA).- Patrick E. Kelly will be the next Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, the largest Catholic men’s fraternity in the world. He succeeds outgoing Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson, who stressed Kelly’s diplomatic and...
Maleo Pews inside Catholic church. The CARES Act, passed in March 2020, initially authorized some $350 billion in loans to small businesses, known as the Paycheck Protection Program, which was intended to allow them to continue to pay their employees. Read the Whole...
Vatican City, Feb 5, 2021 / 03:00 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis on Friday tapped a long-time Rome prosecutor to be public prosecutor for the Vatican City State’s Court of Appeal. He also nominated two new judges for the same court: Msgr. Francesco Viscome of the Roman Rota...
CNA Staff, Feb 5, 2021 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- Bioethicists on Thursday criticized an English court ruling that life-sustaining treatment can be withdrawn from a five-year-old girl against her mother’s wishes. In a Feb. 4 statement, the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford,...
Herika Martinez A Guatemalan migrant and his son cross the Rio Grande natural border between El Paso, state of Texas, US, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico in search of political asylum on January 26, 2021. The U.S. bishops have been supportive of the...
Washington D.C., Feb 5, 2021 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) unveiled a proposal on Thursday that would provide a monthly cash benefit to parents. Romney’s Family Security Act would create a universal child benefit of $4,200 a year–or $350 per...
Welcome to Photo Friday! Each Friday, we share photo collections of our favourite shots from our sponsor sites around the world. Yesterday, February 4 was International Day of Human Fraternity, a time to celebrate and strive for the peace, harmony, and togetherness of...
