Pro-life advocates: Planned Parenthood can’t just wish away Margaret Sanger’s racism, eugenics

Washington D.C., Apr 20, 2021 / 05:00 am America/Denver (CNA). After the head of Planned Parenthood promised to “reckon with” founder Margaret Sanger’s connections to racism and eugenics, pro-life advocates said the organization is still part of the problem. In an opinion piece on Saturday for the New York Times, …
Society of Catholic Scientists prepares for conference on non-human intelligence

by Perry West Washington D.C., Apr 18, 2021 / 15:00 pm America/Denver (CNA). The Society of Catholic Scientists (SCS) will hold its 2021 conference in Washington D.C. on the subject of non-human intelligence. The conference is titled “Extraterrestrials, AI, and Minds Beyond the Human” and will take place at the …
Chicago’s Running Nun talks about faith and sport

Denver Newsroom, Apr 18, 2021 / 02:00 am America/Denver (CNA). When Chicago shut down last March because of the coronavirus pandemic, Sister Stephanie Baliga was certain the shutdown wouldn’t affect the Chicago Marathon in October. So certain, that she made a pretty crazy promise. “I said in April, ‘I’m so …
Three-time Olympian shares her conversion story

by Kate Olivera Denver Newsroom, Apr 17, 2021 / 02:00 am America/Denver (CNA). Today, Dominique Dawes is a three-time Olympian and Olympic gold medalist. But back in 1996, she was a teenage girl feeling the weight of the world on her shoulders. “Before the 1996 Olympic games, all of us, …
USCCB: Permitting mail-order abortion pills places women’s health ‘in serious jeopardy’

Washington D.C., Apr 16, 2021 / 10:33 am America/Denver (CNA). The pro-life chair of the U.S. bishops’ conference on Friday warned that loosening federal regulations of the abortion pill places women’s health “in serious jeopardy.” Earlier this week, the acting commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced …
Indianapolis archbishop offers prayers in response to local mass shooting

By CNA Staff Washington D.C., Apr 16, 2021 / 09:46 am America/Denver (CNA). The Archbishop of Indianapolis on Friday offered prayers and called on Catholics to work to end gun violence, after a deadly mass shooting at a local FedEx facility the night before. “Once again our nation is mourning …
Third Sunday of Easter Mass

April 18, Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains at 11:00 a.m. April 18: Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception & St. Helen Dayton at 11:00 a.m. April 18: The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C., at 11:45 a.m. April 18: Tercer Domingo de …
Mary Immaculate Patroness of our Country, Pray for Us

O GOD OUR CREATOR, from your provident hand we have received our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You have called us as your people and given us the right and the duty to worship you, the only true God, and your Son, Jesus Christ. Through the …
The Key to a Happy Death

Father Mike Schmitz looks at the key to a happy death is not a long and fulfilled life—it’s a life of gratitude for the time given.
Virtual discernment program helps Boston men explore priesthood

by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Apr 16, 2021 / 02:18 am America/Denver (CNA). This past week, the Archdiocese of Boston released its new vocation discernment initiative, Scivias, designed to bring vocational guidance to a COVID-19 online world. “The goal of Scivias is to inspire men to pursues God’s will for …