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Joe Biden meets with Pope Francis at G7 Summit to discuss foreign policy, climate change
By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 14, 2024 / 17:55 pm President Joe Biden privately met with Pope Francis early Friday evening in Apulia, Italy, at the Group of Seven (G7) Summit to discuss foreign policy and climate change. Francis is the first pope to address the G7 summit, which …
Father’s Day 10 inspiring Catholic quotes
By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Jun 15, 2024 / 13:30 pm Every Father’s Day, we recognize and give thanks for the fathers in our lives. It’s a day to honor all men who love and sacrifice for others and to remember the love each of us receives from God the …
Vatican appoints new administrator of Steubenville Diocese amid possible merger
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Jun 14, 2024 / 14:05 pm The Vatican has removed Bishop Paul Bradley as apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Steubenville, Ohio, the bishop revealed on Friday, with Pope Francis appointing a new administrator to take his place. Bradley said in a letter to the diocese on …
Pope Francis gets laughs at meeting with big-name comedians
By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jun 14, 2024 / 07:20 am Pope Francis got a chuckle from an audience of comedians on Friday morning after he suggested throwing away his prepared remarks for simply making people laugh with a silly gesture. Following the advice of St. Thomas Aquinas, who said, “Those …
Pope Francis at G7: AI must not replace human decision-making
By Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Jun 14, 2024 / 11:00 am Pope Francis stressed that human dignity requires that the decisions of artificial intelligence (AI) be under the control of human beings as he participated for the first time in a G7 summit on Friday. “Faced with the marvels of machines, …
Archbishop Broglio reminds bishops about Church teaching on transgenderism
By Zelda Caldwell Louisville, Ky., Jun 14, 2024 / 08:00 am The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference in a speech to his fellow bishops gathered in Louisville, Kentucky, for their spring meeting discoursed on the subject of the incompatibility of “sex change” with the teachings of the Catholic Church. In …
G7 summit: Pope Francis to meet U.S. President Joe Biden in Italy
By Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Jun 13, 2024 / 09:11 am Pope Francis will hold bilateral meetings on Friday with nine world leaders, including U.S. President Joe Biden, at the G7 summit in southern Italy, the Vatican confirmed Thursday. The pontiff will also hold bilateral meetings with other notable leaders, including …
The nun in a tent: Meet the sister who’s following the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage
By Kate Quiñones Denver, Colo., Jun 12, 2024 / 16:00 pm In her day-to-day life, Sister Mary Rose Chinn of the Handmaids of the Triune God works with public school kids in Ventura, California, a coastal city northwest of Los Angeles. But this summer, she hit the road to camp out …
In unanimous decision, SCOTUS rejects doctors’ challenge to abortion pill
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Jun 13, 2024 / 12:38 pm The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled against a physician-led challenge to the abortion pill, rejecting an attempt by advocates to impose stricter regulations on the drug. The court said in its Thursday ruling that the plaintiffs, represented by the Alliance for …
Pope Francis: Keep your homilies short or ‘people will fall asleep’
By Courtney Mares Rome Newsroom, Jun 12, 2024 / 09:35 am Pope Francis has once again appealed to Catholic priests to keep their homilies short, this time warning that homilies should be no longer than eight minutes or “people will fall asleep.” Speaking in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday catechesis …