Catholic News – Americas
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White House backs off enforcing underage contraceptive rule in Texas
null / Credit: 279photo Studio/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 6, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). The White House is backing off…
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Nicaraguan dictatorship kidnaps and expels another priest
The Nicaraguan dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his “co-president” and wife, Rosario Murillo, kidnapped and expelled from the country a…
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Bible boom: Why are people buying so many Bibles?
null / Credit: joshimerbin/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 5, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Is the Bible — already the most…
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New Orleans priest pleads guilty to 1970s kidnapping, rape of teenager
Father Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty this week to kidnapping and raping a teenage boy in the 1970s, heading off a…
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Pope Francis’ letter to Nicaraguan Catholics is ‘balm for our spirit,’ exiles say
Nicaraguan academic and political activist Felix Maradiaga speaks during an interview with AFP in Managua on Feb. 11, 2021. /…
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Vatican suppresses Carmelite monastery following long-running controversy
The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. / Credit:…
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Military archdiocese launches initiative to build Catholic communities on military bases
Team Saint Paul schedules frequent adoration for soldiers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. / Credit: Team Saint Paul CNA Staff, Dec…
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St. Andrew the Apostle: 8 things to know and share
Workshop of Gerard Seghers, “Saint Andrew,” ca. 1637. / Credit: Register Files / Public Domain National Catholic Register, Nov 30,…
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Judge upholds Missouri’s ban on transgender surgeries and drugs for minors
null / Credit: Brian A Jackson / Shutterstock St. Louis, Mo., Nov 27, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA). A Missouri…
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What makes the religious so happy?
For committed Catholics, statistics like this come as no surprise. It’s the Gospel message in a bar-graph, the Cross in…
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