Article Archive
Please click below to view any of the articles in our archive.
Rosa María Payá coordinates the pro-Cuba democracy platform Cuba Decide. She is the daughter of the revered late Catholic Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá. / Credit: Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty ImagesACI Prensa Staff, Mar 21, 2024 / 17:05 pm (CNA).The Cuba Decides initiative, founded by Catholic opposition activist Rosa María Payá, is calling on the international community to side with the Cuban people and support the country's peaceful transition to democracy, a demand made by protesters in July 2021 as well as last weekend.Payá is the daughter of revered Catholic pro-democracy leader Oswaldo Payá, who was reportedly assassinated by the Castro regime in 2012.In an email sent to ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner, the democratic initiative referred to the protests that took place March 18 in cities such as Santiago de Cuba and Bayamo, in which numerous people took to the streets to demand a change in the system due to continuous power outages and food shortages on the isl...
Pope Francis venerates the Salus Populi Romani icon in the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Dec. 8, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Mar 21, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).Pope Francis on Wednesday issued new regulations for the administration of the papal Basilica of St. Mary Major, placing new emphasis on spiritual work and pastoral care and appointing a coadjutor archpriest of the West's oldest Marian shrine. In the March 20 chirograph, or papal decree, the Holy Father explained that he sought to "free" the "canons," (members of the group or "chapter" of clergy he designates to serve the basilica) "from all economic and administrative duties, so that they may dedicate themselves, fully and with renewed vigor, to the spiritual and pastoral accompaniment" of pilgrims.In December 2021 Pope Francis appointed Lithuanian-born Archbishop Rolandas Makrickas as the extraordinary commissioner to undertake the commissioning process "for the reorganization of the life of the chapter and the...
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, urges the Supreme Court to restore abortion pill restrictions at a Capitol Hill press conference hosted by Reps. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, and August Pfluger, R-Texas, Mar. 21, 2024. / Credit: Peter Pinedo/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 21, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA).With the Supreme Court set to hear arguments in a high-stakes abortion case next week, pro-life House members are urging the court to restore what they believe are necessary restrictions on the abortion drug known as mifepristone.Speaking at a Capitol Hill press conference on Thursday, lawmakers and activists said it was crucial that the court rule in favor of the pro-life groups in the case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration (AHM v. FDA), which is set to be heard by the Supreme Court on March 26.Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, said at the press conference that in loosening restrictions on mifepristone, the Biden administration is "endangerin...
null / Carl Ballou / ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 21, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA).A New Hampshire man was charged with the murder of a pregnant woman and her unborn child, which is the first time the state's fetal homicide law has ever been invoked.William Kelly, 38, was charged with second-degree murder on allegations that he recklessly caused the death of 33-year-old Christine Falzone. He also faced another count of second-degree murder on allegations that he recklessly caused the death of her unborn child. The indictment from the Carroll County Grand Jury was announced on March 15. According to the New Hampshire Department of Justice, Falzone was somewhere between 35 and 37 weeks pregnant at the time of her death, which means she was only a few weeks away from giving birth. Authorities have not disclosed a suspected motive for the alleged murder but noted that Falzone and Kelly lived together. The double murder charges present a first-of-its-kind case ...
The St. Mary's mens basketball team wins the West Coast Conference, earning themselves a spot in the NCAA tournament. / Credit: Ryan BarnettCNA Staff, Mar 21, 2024 / 12:30 pm (CNA).The St. Mary's Gaels men's basketball team made history this season by winning the West Coast Conference regular season and tournament titles on March 12, earning them an automatic bid for the NCAA men's tournament.It's the third time in program history that the team has won both titles in the same season. This is their fifth tournament title. Their previous tournament title wins came in 1997, 2010, 2012, and 2019.Since the beginning of the calendar year, the Gaels have only lost one game, winning 17 out of 18 games and ended the regular season 26-7 overall. The Gaels going into the tournament as the No. 5 seed in the West Region. St. Mary's will now face No. 12 Grand Canyon Antelopes in their first-round game at 10:05 p.m. ET on Friday, March 22.St. Mary's College, located in Moraga, Calif...
null / Credit: Billion Photos/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Mar 21, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA).Following three years of modest growth, enrollment in Catholic education has remained stable since 2023, according to new data made public Wednesday by the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA). The NCEA, which gathers statistics on Catholic school enrollment in the United States each year, reported that enrollment remained steady with a 0.0% change in enrollment from 2022-2023 to 2023-2024.Following two straight years of notable growth, Catholic school enrollment had again risen slightly nationwide in 2022-2023."Although the national enrollment decline since 2013-2014 school year has been 281,251, a 14.2% loss of the student population, enrollment in more recent years has stabilized," the report read. Of the 5,905 Catholic schools in the U.S., enrollment in the southeast region of the U.S. has experienced the highest enrollment growth since the 2019-2020 school year, a...
Carissa Carroll, pictured with her son Jack, founded the nonprofit organization Jack's Basket to celebrate babies with Down syndrome / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN Pro-Life WeeklyWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 21, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA).As many countries celebrate World Down Syndrome Day on March 21, a panel of pro-life leaders and scholars is calling attention to the threat that prenatal testing poses to preborn children who are diagnosed with Down syndrome in the womb."[The mother] often faces tremendous internal and external pressure to undergo an abortion," said J.D. Flynn, who moderated the panel at the Catholic University of America's Institute for Human Ecology and is himself the father of two children with Down syndrome. Prenatal screening within the first 11 through 14 weeks of pregnancy can determine whether a preborn child has a higher likelihood of having Down syndrome, but a follow-up diagnostic test can confirm whether the child has the condition. Although eff...
null / ShutterstockCNA Staff, Mar 21, 2024 / 11:35 am (CNA).The Montana Supreme Court this week gave the green light to a pro-abortion amendment to the state's constitution that may appear before voters in November. In a 6-1 decision issued on Monday, the court held that state Attorney General Austin Knudsen had "erred" when his office determined that the proposed pro-abortion ballot measure was "legally insufficient" to be placed on the ballot in this year's election. The measure as described on the Montana secretary of state's website would "[prohibit] the government from denying or burdening the right to abortion before fetal viability" and would further forbid any restrictions on abortion "when it is necessary to protect the pregnant patient's life or health."State Deputy Solicitor General Brent Mead said in a Jan. 16 letter that the measure fails the state's "separate-vote requirement," which mandates that multiple state ballot measures b...
David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, and Terrisa Bukovinac, founder of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, share testimony in a Capitol Hill panel March 19, 2024, accusing the abortion industry of harvesting aborted baby organs. / Credit: Courtesy of Office of Rep. Marjorie Taylor GreeneWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 20, 2024 / 16:15 pm (CNA).Several Republican House members hosted a panel on Tuesday highlighting what they called the "horrific" organ harvesting and trafficking of aborted babies.Hosted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, on Capitol Hill, the presentation included testimony by David Daleiden, founder of the investigative group Center for Medical Progress, and Terrisa Bukovinac, founder of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAUU).They testified that Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics throughout the country are selling the organs and body parts of aborted babies in a lucrative biomaterial black market.Daleiden, wh...
Father Joseph Friend, Father Artur Bubnevych, and Father Donald Planty are among five U.S. parish priests who have been selected to attend a global gathering of 300 priests at the Vatican from April 28 to May 2, 2024, as part of the ongoing Synod on Synodality. / Credit: Courtesy of Father Joseph Friend; courtesy of Father Artur Bubnevych; EWTN News in Depth/ScreenshotCNA Staff, Mar 20, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA).The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) announced Wednesday the names of five parish priests who have been selected to attend a global gathering of 300 priests at the Vatican this spring as part of the ongoing Synod on Synodality.In a March 20 announcement, the USCCB said the five priests consist of four Latin-rite priests and one Eastern Catholic priest, at the request of the Vatican. The five priests include Father Artur Bubnevych, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Father Joseph Friend, parochial admini...
