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A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - An ongoing study of anti-religious acts in France has uncovered more than 800 anti-Christian incidents reported in 2021. Catholic churches in France are frequently targeted by vandals, an...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Catholic schools across much of the Archdiocese of Chicago can now make masks optional. The archdiocese announced this week that it would no longer require masks, unless a school is locat...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The province of Quebec in Canada now requires citizens to show a COVID-19 vaccine passport to attend religious services. Bishops in the province have said they accept the requirement for...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Pope Francis said on Wednesday that the dying need palliative care, which seeks to improve the quality of life of people suffering from severe illnesses, rather than euthanasia or assiste...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Pope emeritus Benedict the Sixteenth has personally requested forgiveness, from survivors of clerical sex abuse. Benedict released a letter today, responding to a report that faulted his...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Pope Francis gave his first interview to a television talk show Sunday night, asking viewers who do not pray to send him “good thoughts, good vibes.” Speaking with Italy’s most popular pr...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - A Tennessee law restricting abortions on the basis of sex, race, or prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome is back in effect. But legal challenges against the law continue to play out in cou...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Pope Francis prayed for the Burmese people, and for the success of the Winter Olympics, during his general audience yesterday in Rome. Burma is home to a small Catholic population, but Ca...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The pope will meet with a delegation of indigenous leaders from Canada in March. The visit was originally planned for December, but it was rescheduled after a surge in coronavirus cases....

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Advocates of the traditional Latin Mass are petitioning the bishop of Arlington Virginia to lift restrictions on the sacraments in the Extraordinary Form. A petition was reportedly brough...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - A Catholic police officer in Kentucky has won a 75,000 dollar settlement with the city of Louisville, after he was suspended for praying outside an abortion clinic. The officer was off-du...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Being properly informed with scientific data is a human right. Those were the words of Pope Francis today, during a meeting with a Catholic fact-checking group, focused on misinformation...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Justice Stephen Breyer will retire from the U-S Supreme Court. The 83-year-old associate justice served for 27 years. It is unclear when exactly his retirement will go into effect. He is...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Lawmakers are asking the Food and Drug Administration to oversee non-invasive prenatal testing, after a bombshell investigation that was published this month. The New York Times found tha...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Confirmations in the traditional rite will no longer be allowed in the Archdiocese of Westminster in England. The Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, has organized annual confirmatio...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Pope Francis on Sunday called for January 26 to be a day of prayer for peace in Ukraine, as the threat of a Russian invasion rises. Russia has sent an estimated 100,000 troops to the Ukra...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The annual March for Life is taking place today in Washington. Tens of thousands of pro-life advocates were expected to gather for the pro-life event. During a vigil Mass last night, Balt...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Investigators have released a report detailing the handling of abuse cases in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, in Germany. The report faults Pope emeritus Benedict the Sixteenth, f...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Catholics who support the Traditional Latin Mass have petitioned the bishop of Arlington Virginia to lift restrictions on the liturgy. The bishop did not restrict any existing Latin Masse...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The Vatican Secretary of State has tested positive for the coronavirus. Cardinal Pietro Parolin reportedly has very mild symptoms. He is fully vaccinated and has received booster shots. T...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The Supreme Court has blocked President Joe Biden’s sweeping vaccine or test mandate for businesses with 100 or more employers. The mandate would have gone into full effect in February. T...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The University of Notre Dame, and Georgetown University, are among sixteen private schools facing a federal lawsuit, for allegedly illegally conspiring to reduce financial aid awards to s...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Speakers at this year’s March for Life will include actor Kirk Cameron, “Duck Dynasty” star Lisa Robertson, podcast host Father Mike Schmitz, and two members of Congress. The annual pro-l...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - Lawmakers in New Jersey have voted to pass a bill expanding abortion access in the state. The bill was vigorously opposed by the state’s Catholic conference. New Jersey law already includ...

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - The pope is praying for the victims of New York City’s deadliest fire in decades. Nineteen people, including nine children, died Sunday in an apartment fire in the Bronx. The fire is beli...