New study finds regular porn usage linked to higher loneliness, depression - Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:00:00 -0400 - null / Credit: Melnikov Dmitriy/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Sep 16, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). A new study has found that daily pornography consumption among young adults leads to statistically signifi ...

FBI investigating apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump in Florida - Sun, 15 Sep 2024 19:48:06 -0400 - Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw holds a photograph of the rifle and other items found near where a suspect was discovered during a press conference regarding an apparent assassination att ...

Nebraska Supreme Court approves competing abortion initiatives for November ballot - Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:54:00 -0400 - null / Credit: Stephen Velsaso via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0), filter added Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 13, 2024 / 15:54 pm (CNA). Two proposed constitutional amendments — one pro-life and one ...

Kamala Harris backers launch $15 million pro-abortion ad campaign in swing states - Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:45:00 -0400 - Vice President Kamala Harris speaks about Florida’s new six-week abortion ban on May 1, 2024, in Jacksonville, Florida. Harris has made abortion policy a central issue of her presidential camp ...

Virginia Knights receive religious freedom award after spat with federal government - Fri, 13 Sep 2024 10:15:00 -0400 - Deacon Bob Young, representing Knights of Columbus Council 694, accepts the First Liberty Institute's Philip B. Onderdonk Jr. Religious Liberty Award award at the American Legion’s Nation ...

Ryan Anderson: The pro-life movement needs to shift to promoting chastity and marriage - Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:51:00 -0400 - null / Credit: Fabio Sola Penna via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 13, 2024 / 08:51 am (CNA). For the pro-life movement to achieve its goal of eliminating abortion, it must f ...

Post-debate explainer: The truth about late-term abortions in the United States - Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:00:00 -0400 - The Pro-Life Coalition of Pennsylvania holds a "Mercy Witness for Life" rally on July 23, 2016, outside of the former site of Dr. Kermit Gosnell's closed abortion clinic in Philad ...

North Dakota judge strikes down state’s abortion restrictions - Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:20:00 -0400 - null / Credit: Chodyra Mike 1/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Sep 12, 2024 / 18:20 pm (CNA). A state judge nixed North Dakota’s protections for unborn babies on Thursday, saying that the state consti ...

Catholic Charities seeks volunteers in Louisiana as Hurricane Francine floods the region - Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:00:00 -0400 - Signage is strewn across the intersection after Hurricane Francine swept through the area on Sept. 11, 2024, in Houma, Louisiana. / Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images CNA Staff, Sep 12, 2024 / 1 ...

UPDATE: Chicago priest ‘strenuously denies’ state’s child molestation allegation, archdiocese says - Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:30:00 -0400 - St. Josaphat Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. / Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 CNA Staff, Sep 12, 2024 / 14:30 pm (CNA). A recently ordained priest ...

March for Life announces ‘longtime marcher’ as new president - Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:00:00 -0400 - Jennie Bradley Lichter is set to become the new president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund. / Credit: Photo courtesy of March for Life Education and Defense Fund CNA Staff, Sep ...

North Dakota bishops call for rejection of recreational cannabis measure on state ballot - Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:05:00 -0400 - Marijuana leaves. / Credit: Armando Olivo Martín del Campo CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED CNA Staff, Sep 12, 2024 / 13:05 pm (CNA). The bishops of North Dakota condemned a state ballot measure to legalize ...

7 of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s most popular titles - Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:00:00 -0400 - From left: Our Lady of Fatima; Our Lady of Lourdes; Our Lady of Guadalupe; Our Lady of the Rosary; Our Lady of Sorrows; Our Lady, Undoer of Knots; and Our Lady of Peace. / Credit: Ricardoperna v ...

Latin Mass parish in Nevada destroyed by wildfire - Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:25:00 -0400 - The Holy Spirit Catholic Mission in Washoe Valley, Nevada, before (left) and after a rampant wildfire destroyed the church on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. / Credit: Vincent Toomey CNA Staff, Sep 11 ...

Christian school sues Maine over law deterring religious schools from school choice program - Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:11:00 -0400 - Bangor Christian Schools building in Bangor, Maine. / Credit: Photo courtesy of First Liberty Institute CNA Staff, Sep 11, 2024 / 16:11 pm (CNA). A Christian school on Sept. 3 filed an appeal a ...

‘Harsh realities’: Diocese of Buffalo announces final list of parish mergers, closures - Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:32:00 -0400 - The nave of St. Casimir Church in Buffalo, New York. / Credit: Michael Shriver/buffalophotoblog.com CNA Staff, Sep 11, 2024 / 15:32 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Buffalo, New York, this week reveale ...

Pew poll shows slim majority of U.S. Catholics voting for Trump in November - Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:30:00 -0400 - Republican presidential nominee former president Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris debate for the first time during the presidential election campaign ...

South Carolina could execute a death row inmate every 35 days as death penalty resumes - Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:20:00 -0400 - The South Carolina State House in Columbia, South Carolina, on May 16, 2023. / Credit: LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 11, 2024 / 09:20 am (CNA). The South Carol ...

Trump, Harris argue abortion policy and records on immigration and economy in debate - Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:50:00 -0400 - Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris greet each other as they debate for the first time during the presi ...

‘We’re having a problem on the plane’: Husband writes about losing wife, unborn child on 9/11 - Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:00:00 -0400 - An unborn child, a victim of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, is remembered at the 9/11 memorial in New York City. / Credit: Katie Yoder/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 11, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA) ...

Mother Teresa’s ‘spiritual darkness’ was not depression or loss of faith, scholar explains - Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:38:00 -0400 - St. Teresa of Calcutta. / Credit: © 1986 Túrelio (via Wikimedia-Commons), 1986 / Lizenz: Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-2.0 de Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 10, 2024 / 17:38 pm (CNA). The “spir ...

Missouri Supreme Court keeps pro-abortion amendment on November ballot - Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:20:00 -0400 - Pro-life protestors hold signs outside the Missouri Supreme Court on Sept. 10, 2024 advocating against Amendment 3, which would dramatically expand abortion access in Missouri if passed in Novem ...

Franciscan University launches new hub in Washington, DC, after multimillion-dollar gift - Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:05:00 -0400 - Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, chapel and statue. / Credit: Joseph Antoniello, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Sep 10, 2024 / 14:05 pm (CNA). Franciscan University of Steube ...

Cardinal Schönborn: ‘We must accept the decline of Europe’ - Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:00:00 -0400 - Cardinal Christoph Schönborn speaks at the launch of Amoris Laetitia at the Vatican on April 8, 2016. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Staff, Sep 10, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). Cardinal Christoph ...

James Earl Jones, legendary actor and Catholic convert, dies at 93 - Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:15:00 -0400 - James Earl Jones attends the "The Gin Game" Broadway opening night after party at Sardi's on Oct. 14, 2015, in New York City. / Credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images CNA Staff, Sep ...

Catholic comedian Jim Gaffigan to host Al Smith dinner; Trump, Harris to attend - Mon, 09 Sep 2024 17:06:00 -0400 - Jim Gaffigan attends SiriusXM's “Unfrosted” Town Hall at SiriusXM Studios on April 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. / Credit: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SiriusXM Washington, D.C. Newsroom ...

Grant project kickstarts new field of study: experimental philosophy of religion - Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:06:00 -0400 - Ian Church, head of the “Launching Experimental Philosophy of Religion” grant project and a professor of philosophy at Hillsdale College, welcomes attendees of the capstone conference at Hil ...

Missouri abortion ballot measure could be thrown out following court ruling - Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:40:00 -0400 - The Missouri Supreme Court building in Jefferson City. / Credit: Henryk Sadura/Shutterstock St. Louis, Mo., Sep 9, 2024 / 14:40 pm (CNA). A proposed constitutional amendment in Missouri that wo ...

New York bishops: State ‘equal rights amendment’ is ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ - Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:28:00 -0400 - Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA CNA Staff, Sep 9, 2024 / 12:28 pm (CNA). Catholic bishops in New York state are warning ahead of the November election that an � ...

What does the Catholic Church teach about immigration and immigrants? - Mon, 09 Sep 2024 06:00:00 -0400 - Dainelys Soto, Genesis Contreras, and Daniel Soto, who arrived from Venezuela after crossing the U.S. border from Mexico, wait for dinner at a hotel provided by the Annunciation House on Sept. 2 ...

Michigan college ministry welcomes freshmen to campus by passing out holy water - Sun, 08 Sep 2024 07:00:00 -0400 - Left to right, Victor Fenik, J.P. Ledermann, Jocelyn Reiter, and Anna Picasso distribute bottles of holy water to new and returning students during the involvement fair on Aug. 26, 2024, at the ...

New Catholic dating site hopes to ‘rewire the way we think about dating’ - Sat, 07 Sep 2024 07:00:00 -0400 - null / Credit: szefei/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Sep 7, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). In a dating culture that consists of swiping through photos of potential dates on a smartphone, one Catholic dating a ...

Georgetown investigates vandalism of crucifix and Mary statue as ‘potential hate crimes’ - Fri, 06 Sep 2024 13:15:00 -0400 - Georgetown University, located in Washington, D.C., is the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. / Credit: Rob Crandall, Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 6, 2024 / 13:15 ...

Florida investigating abortion amendment signatures for fraud - Fri, 06 Sep 2024 11:15:00 -0400 - A pro-life supporter stands on a lamppost and holds a sign that reads "MAKE ABORTION UNTHINKABLE" in front of the Supreme Court on June 20, 2024, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Andrew H ...

West Virginia ban on assisted suicide ‘a fight worth fighting,’ state delegate says - Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:30:00 -0400 - West Virginia Delegate Pat McGeehan, a supporter of the state’s ballot measure to make assisted suicide illegal, said in an interview with “EWTN Pro-Life Weekly” on Sept. 5, 2024, that he ...

Nebraska ballot measure would make private schools ineligible for voucher program - Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:00:00 -0400 - null / Credit: RasyidArt, Shutterstock CNA Staff, Sep 6, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). A ballot measure to repeal a new school choice scholarship voucher program is set to be on the November 2024 ball ...

Arizona bishops oppose proposed state crackdown against illegal immigration - Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:04:00 -0400 - A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent detains camouflaged Mexican migrants near the U.S.-Mexico border on Nov. 4, 2022, near Naco, Arizona. / Credit: John Moore/Getty Images Houston, Texas ...

Nicaragua releases 135 political, religious prisoners; many still remain in custody - Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:26:00 -0400 - The freed prisoners included Catholic laypeople, 13 individuals associated with the Texas-based evangelical group Mountain Gateway, and human rights activists. / Credit: ADF International/Mounta ...

Father Roger Landry appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies USA - Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:56:00 -0400 - Father Roger Landry. / Credit: EWTN News/Screenshot CNA Staff, Sep 5, 2024 / 15:56 pm (CNA). Father Roger Landry was announced Thursday as the new national director of the Pontifical Missi ...

How to pray Mother Teresa’s famous emergency ‘Flying Novena’ to Our Lady - Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:40:00 -0400 - St. Peter's Basilica contains an icon of the Virgin Mary titled “Mater Ecclesiae,” which means “Mother of the Church.” / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA National Catholic Register, Sep ...

EWTN News/RealClear poll takes pulse of spiritual health of U.S. Catholics  - Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:37:00 -0400 - null / Credit: Zolnierek/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 5, 2024 / 13:37 pm (CNA). The findings of a new EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research survey shed light on the spiritual heal ...

EWTN News President Montse Alvarado honored for religious freedom advocacy - Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:05:00 -0400 - Montse Alvarado speaks with EWTN News Vice President and Editorial Director Matthew Bunson during a live broadcast of “EWTN News In Depth.” / Credit: EWTN News CNA Staff, Sep 5, 2024 / 13:0 ...

‘Mother Teresa: Life, Spirituality, and Message’ exhibit opens at St. John Paul II Shrine - Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:35:00 -0400 - Entrance to the "Mother Teresa: Life, Spirituality and Message" exhibit at the St. John Paul II Shrine in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Courtesy of the St. John Paul II National Shrine an ...

Harris heavily favored over Trump among Hispanic Catholic voters, EWTN News/RealClear poll finds - Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:05:00 -0400 - Supporters of the Latinos for Harris-Walz campaign attend a party to watch presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris deliver her acceptance speech in Los Angeles on Aug. 22, 2024, the ...

Harris leads Trump among Catholic voters, per EWTN News/RealClear poll - Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:40:00 -0400 - Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. / Credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images; KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Image ...

Trump-Vance campaign launches Catholics for Trump coalition - Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:27:00 -0400 - Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign on Sept. 4, 2024, launched the Catholics for Trump coalition, which emphasizes the defense of religious liberty, traditional values, and the sanct ...

Mother Teresa and St. John Paul II: a look at their holy friendship - Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:46:00 -0400 - Mother Teresa and John Paul II, May 25, 1983. / Credit: L'Osservatore Romano CNA Staff, Sep 4, 2024 / 16:46 pm (CNA). Today is the eighth anniversary of Mother Teresa’s canonization. Pop ...

Biden’s claim that Harris has ‘moral compass of a saint’ sparks criticism from theologians - Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:16:00 -0400 - Vice President Kamala Harris is embraced by President Joe Biden, who described her as having "the moral compass of a saint" during a campaign event in Pittsburgh on Sept. 2, 2024. / Cr ...

Supreme Court allows Biden administration to cut funding over Oklahoma abortion dispute - Wed, 04 Sep 2024 13:32:00 -0400 - U.S. Supreme Court. / Credit: PT Hamilton/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Sep 4, 2024 / 13:32 pm (CNA). The Supreme Court this week declined to stop the Biden administration from stripping the state of ...

Catholic experts respond to Pope Francis on repelling migrants being ‘a grave sin’ - Wed, 04 Sep 2024 06:00:00 -0400 - In 2023, over half a million migrants headed toward the United States crossed the Darien Gap, the inhospitable jungle region between Colombia and Panama. / Credit: Gonzalo Bell/Shutterstock.com ...