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New Mexico Senate passes assisted suicide bill

cna staff, mar 17, 2021 / 08:50 pm mt (cna).- the new mexico state senate has passed a bill to decriminalize assisted suicide, which the sta...

Pro-life Democrats organize ‘Day of Action’ in support of Hyde Amendment

washington d.c., mar 17, 2021 / 08:00 am mt ( cna ) .- the group democrats for life of america announced on tuesday that they will organize&...

Pertinacious Popery: The Roman Origins of the Notary Public

st clement by giovanni battista tiepolo, 1730-1735 for the lover of the picturesque and the romantic – that is to say, the medieval – one’s ...

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The Pandemic Came, Christians Went Bonkers

the church could have seized an opportunity of great calamity to preach salvation to the ever-darkening world of the 21st century. instead, ...

Bankruptcy judge rules Buffalo diocese will not pay for retired bishops’ lawyers

buffalo, n.y., mar 9, 2021 / 04:41 pm mt (cna).- a bankruptcy judge ruled this month that the diocese of buffalo has “no obligation” to reta...

Minneapolis archbishop prays for peace as trial of Derek Chauvin begins

washington d.c., mar 8, 2021 / 01:00 pm mt ( cna ) .- the archbishop of st. paul-minneapolis urged peace and prayer before the trial of form...

Curial speculation follows papal meetings with bishops

st. peter's basilica. credit: bohumil petrik/cna. sources have told cna that pope francis may choose two us-born prelates as prefects of con...

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Aramaic: The Uncertain Future of an Ancient Language

this essay is part three of a three-part series by sam sweeney, a writer and translator based in the middle east, who wrote most recently fo...

Iraq on Tenterhooks ahead of Pope Francis's Arrival

security forces on high alert ahead of pope francis's arrival by john cookson in baghdad. pope francis is making one of the most difficult a...

French investigator: As many as 10 thousand victims of clerical sexual abuse

the man leading a commission established by france’s catholic bishops to investigate clerical sexual abuse and hierarchical coverup has said...