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by CNA Staff CNA Newsroom, Jan 23, 2023 / 11:30 am Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez on Sunday offered prayers for victims of a Saturday shooting at a Monterey Park, California, ballroom dance studio. “We pray for those killed and injured in this shooting, we ask that God stay close …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Jan 21, 2023 / 12:00 pm Pope Benedict XVI was misunderstood throughout his life and ministry, Cardinal Mario Grech wrote in an essay this week in the Vatican newspaper. Writing in the Jan. 17 Italian edition of L’Osservatore Romano, Grech said Benedict XVI “often remained …

by Zelda Caldwell Washington D.C., Jan 20, 2023 / 15:25 pm Former head coach and NFL analyst Tony Dungy told a crowd gathered at Friday’s March for Life that the answer to the tragedy of abortion is prayer, calling to mind Damar Hamlin’s collapse on the football field and what …

by Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Jan 21, 2023 / 10:00 am The wonders we see in the universe “should draw us out of ourselves,” an Ivy League scientist said last week, “looking out not just towards the wonders themselves and towards the truths they reveal, but also towards the …

by Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 20, 2023 / 17:45 pm As tens of thousands of pro-life activists marched to the Supreme Court on Friday for the annual March for Life, President Joe Biden issued a pro-abortion proclamation to commemorate the anniversary of the now-obsolete Roe V. Wade decision. …

by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Jan 19, 2023 / 14:30 pm Tony Dungy is a man who wears many hats: football coach, father of 11, NFL analyst, adoptive dad, New York Times bestselling author, and Pro Football Hall of Famer, among others. But the title that the former star athlete …

By Courtney Mares Rome Newsroom, Jan 19, 2023 / 12:15 pm Pope Francis declared six Catholics as venerable servants of God on Thursday, moving them each one step closer to canonization. In a decree signed on Jan. 19, the pope recognized the heroic virtue of an Italian stigmatist, four 20th-century priests, …

by Peter Pinedo Washington D.C., Jan 19, 2023 / 12:45 pm A potentially habitable “Earth-sized” planet has been discovered, NASA announced last week. Catholic scientists from the Vatican Observatory and Benedictine College hailed the discovery of the planet, named TOI 700 e, as “exciting” and a testament “to the marvels …

By Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Jan 17, 2023 / 11:36 am Mark Houck, the pro-life father of seven arrested by the FBI early in the morning at his Pennsylvania home last September will stand trial on Jan. 24 in the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. The case garnered national interest amid …

by Katie Yoder Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 16, 2023 / 08:00 am The president of the U.S. Catholic bishops is remembering Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. while observing the federal holiday on Monday, Jan. 16. “Today, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have celebrated his 94th birthday, we reflect …