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Abuse survivor: ‘All Catholics will be grieving’ when McCarrick report is released

Nov 6, 2020

By Jonah McKeown

One clerical abuse survivor and advocate told CNA that as hard as it will be to read the McCarrick Report... Read more

Members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops gather for their Fall Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland on Nov. 11, 2019.

USCCB set to convene virtual assembly six days after McCarrick report

Nov 6, 2020

The Fall General Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will be held in two live-streamed sessions on... Read more

The flag of Vatican City with St. Peter's Basilica in the background on April 29, 2019.

Searches carried out on key figures in Vatican financial scandal

Nov 6, 2020

By Hannah Brockhaus

Rome financial police executed a search warrant this week against three figures tied to the Vatican's London property scandal. According... Read more

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Post-election shift in US House could hamper Democrats’ abortion, LGBT goals

Nov 6, 2020

By Matt Hadro

As ballots are still being counted to determine key House races, Democrats are projected to hold control of the chamber—albeit... Read more

Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

Vatican announces publication date of long-awaited ‘McCarrick Report’

Nov 6, 2020

The Vatican announced Friday that the long-awaited report on the disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick will be released next week.   Read more

Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz, left.

Vatican imposes disciplinary measures on 97-year-old Polish cardinal

Nov 6, 2020

The apostolic nunciature in Poland announced Friday disciplinary measures against a 97-year-old cardinal.  Read more

Cardinal Christian Tumi, pictured after his liberation on Nov. 6, 2020.

Cardinal is freed after kidnapping by gunmen in Cameroon

Nov 6, 2020

By Courtney Mares

Cardinal Christian Tumi, who was kidnapped by gunmen Thursday evening in Cameroon’s Northwest Region, has been freed.  Read more

U.K. health secretary Matt Hancock.

UK health secretary: traveling abroad for assisted suicide permitted under lockdown

Nov 6, 2020

U.K. health secretary Matt Hancock said Thursday that people traveling abroad for assisted suicide would not be breaking strict new... Read more

Fr. Guadalupe Rios.

Fresno diocesan priest accused of misconduct, gang links

Nov 5, 2020

The Catholic Diocese of Fresno has taken out a restraining order against a priest and launched an investigation of him... Read more

Scene in front of the Mark Hatfield Justice Center in Portland, Oregon on November 4, 2020.

Portland rioters damage Catholic church known for outreach to the poor 

Nov 5, 2020

A Catholic church in downtown Portland, Oregon - known for helping the area’s poor - suffered shattered windows during a... Read more

Cardinal Timothy Dolan.

'McCarrick Report' could be 'black-eye' for Church, Cardinal Dolan says

Nov 5, 2020

The Archbishop of New York said Thursday that a long-awaited Vatican report on the career of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick... Read more

The flag of Guatemala.

Agreement allowing Planned Parenthood to operate in Guatemala rescinded

Nov 5, 2020

Guatemala’s Interior Ministry rescinded Wednesday an agreement it had made last month allowing Planned Parenthood to establish and operate branch... Read more

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives at the Vatican on March 5, 2013.

McCarrick report due for release next week

Nov 5, 2020

By Ed Condon, JD Flynn

The Vatican’s long-awaited report on the career of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is set to be released early next week,... Read more

The flag of Vatican City with St. Peter's Basilica in the background on May 29, 2015.

Lawyer downplays suspended Vatican official’s role in London property deal

Nov 5, 2020

By Hannah Brockhaus

A lawyer for Msgr. Mauro Carlino downplayed the suspended Vatican official’s involvement in a controversial London property deal, saying that... Read more

Fr. Josef Kentenich.

Details of Schoenstatt founder abuse and coercion allegations emerge

Nov 5, 2020

A Church historian has published some details regarding the allegations of abuse made against  Fr. Josef Kentenich, founder of the... Read more

Deacon David Pinto. Courtesy photo.

Patience and the priesthood: A vocation 50 years in the making

Nov 5, 2020

By Christine Rousselle

On average, diocesan priests take about six years to complete seminary formation. For Dominican priests, it is seven. Jesuits study... Read more

Typhoon Goni, Oct. 30, 2020.

Typhoon Goni hits Philippines, compounding damage of storms and coronavirus

Nov 5, 2020

By Kevin J. Jones

Typhoon Goni has hit the Philippines, killing several people and causing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes... Read more

The skyline of Lyon, France.

Eastern Orthodox priest shot in France emerges from coma

Nov 5, 2020

By Courtney Mares

Fr. Nikolas Kakavelakis, a Greek Orthodox priest in Lyon who was seriously wounded in a shooting Saturday, has emerged from coma,... Read more

Pope Francis celebrates a Requiem Mass in St. Peter's Basilica for deceased cardinals and bishops Nov. 5, 2020.

Pope Francis offers Mass for souls of 169 deceased bishops, cardinals

Nov 5, 2020

By Courtney Mares

Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to pray for the dead and remember Christ’s promise of the resurrection at a Mass offered... Read more

A woman prays in Westminster Cathedral, London, Nov. 4, 2020, the day before a four-week lockdown in England.

Catholics urged to join nationwide daily prayer as England enters second lockdown

Nov 5, 2020

Bishops urged Catholics in England to join in a nationwide daily “moment of prayer” Wednesday as the country entered a... Read more

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From left to right: Deacon Omar F.A. Gutierrez, notary in the cause for canonization, Steve Wolf, vice postulator in the cause for canonization and a Boys Town alumnus, and Father Ryan Lewis, JCL, the archbishop’s delegate.

New film on life of Father Flanagan hopes to advance priest’s cause for canonization

Monica Biboso and her employer, Ester Rot, while celebrating Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) in the dining room of Kibbutz Be'eri in 2022. “I don’t feel like a hero because I saved Ester” during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, Biboso told CNA. “I would do anything to save her. I just treated her like my mother. Every child would do the same.”

‘Without God, I wouldn’t be here’: Catholic woman recounts survival of Oct. 7 Hamas attack

A woman prays the rosary at the Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, on Sept. 28, 2024.

The rosary: common myths and facts

More than 400 priests, bishops, and cardinals concelebrated a Mass with Pope Francis to open the second assembly of the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 2, 2024, in St. Peter’s Square.

Live updates: The Synod on Synodality debates the Catholic Church’s future

Pope Francis holds his rosary beads during a rosary prayer for peace at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome on Oct. 6, 2024.

Pope Francis prays rosary for peace on eve of first anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack

Pope Francis waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square for his Angelus reflection on Oct. 6, 2024.

Pope Francis urges married couples to ‘be open to life’

Pope Francis creates new cardinals at a consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 5, 2019.

Pope Francis names 21 new cardinals, including archbishops of Tehran and Toronto

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U.S. bishops invite faithful to pray mental health novena

The Maronite Catholic eparch of Batroun, Bishop Mounir Khairallah, attends a Synod on Synodality press conference on Oct. 5, 2024, at the Vatican.

Lebanese bishop makes impassioned plea for peace at synod briefing

Mark Houck and other pro-life activists share the severe suffering they have experienced due to the pro-abortion policies of the Biden-Harris administration at the Pray Vote Stand Summit in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024.

Panelists at Pray Vote Stand Summit slam government’s pro-abortion agenda

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