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Christendom's president-elect, George Harne, is currently a professor at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Before then, he served as president of Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts for nine years. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Christendom CollegeCNA Staff, Mar 26, 2024 / 15:15 pm (CNA).Christendom College, a Virginia-based Catholic liberal arts college, announced on Monday that George Harne will serve as the college's fourth president.Currently a professor at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Harne is a music history and liberal arts scholar who formerly served as president of Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts in Warner, New Hampshire, for nine years until 2020.Harne will succeed Timothy O'Donnell, who has served as Christendom College president for more than 30 years, or two-thirds of the college's lifetime. "On behalf of the entire college, I want to congratulate and welcome Dr. George Harne as our new president," O'Donnell said in a March 25 press release...
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on March 26, 2024, for a lawsuit brought by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM), which seeks to impose more restrictions on the prescription of mifepristone. / Credit: Peter Pinedo/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 26, 2024 / 15:45 pm (CNA).United States Supreme Court justices on Tuesday pressed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone but appeared skeptical that a pro-life doctor's group challenging the agency had any legal standing to sue. The justices heard oral arguments on March 26 for a lawsuit brought by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM), which seeks to impose more restrictions on the prescription of mifepristone. The drug is approved to chemically abort a child up to 10 weeks into the mother's pregnancy. AHM, which represents pro-life medical groups, sued the FDA in November 2022 to challenge the agency's approval of mifepristone. The lawsuit further challeng...
Some Greek Orthodox monks at the entrance of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher wait for the solemn entrance of the patriarch on Saturday, March 23, 2024, for the First Vesper of the first Sunday of Lent, called the "Sunday of Orthodoxy." / Credit: Courtesy of Gianfranco Pinto OstuniJerusalem, Mar 26, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA).As the Catholic Church in the Holy Land entered Holy Week by literally retracing the steps of Jesus' passion in Jerusalem, the Orthodox churches took their first steps into Lent.The Eastern churches follow the Julian calendar, which means Easter Sunday 2024 falls on May 5. Next year, however, the Catholic and Orthodox Easter will fall on the same day. Unlike the Catholic Church, which marks the beginning of Lent with a strong call to penance symbolized by Ash Wednesday, Orthodox churches do not have specific celebrations that open this penitential period.His Eminence Anba Antonios (right), Coptic Orthodox archbishop of Jerusalem, incenses the edi...
Archbishop Dionisio Guillermo García of Santiago de Cuba prays before an image of Mary in the Basilica National Sanctuary of Our Lady of Charity on March 24, 2024. / Credit: Archbishopric of Santiago de CubaACI Prensa Staff, Mar 26, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).The archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, Dionisio Guillermo García, offered a lengthy prayer before the nation's patroness, the Virgin of Charity of Cobre, on Palm Sunday, imploring the Virgin for the needs of the people, hoping that they find freedom and the light of faith amid adversity. "Our people have said and repeat what we all know: electricity and food. Is that unattainable? Is that asking too much? No no no. Our people also ask for freedom, so that everyone can reach their goals in life and ensure that their children benefit the most." In an atmosphere of silence, the archbishop offered his prayer in the emblematic National Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre Basilica.This took place a week after crowds i...
Hundreds of pro-life and pro-abortion demonstrators hold rallies alongside each other as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the high-stakes abortion pill case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration, March 26, 2024. / Credit: Peter Pinedo/CNAWashington D.C., Mar 26, 2024 / 18:15 pm (CNA).Several hundred pro-life and pro-abortion activists held dueling rallies outside the Supreme Court building on Tuesday as the justices heard oral arguments in the high-stakes abortion pill case, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration (AHM v. FDA).At issue in the case is whether the FDA should restore certain restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone that were in place prior to 2016, most notably those removed by the Biden administration such as prohibiting administering the pills through the mail or via telemedicine. At the pro-life rally, abortion demonstrators blasted loud music in an attempt to drown out the pro-life speak...
The Stations of the Cross at Rome's Colosseum, April 15, 2022. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNARome Newsroom, Mar 26, 2024 / 14:30 pm (CNA).Pope Francis for the first time in his 11-year pontificate will pen his own spiritual meditations for Friday's Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) against the dramatic backdrop of Rome's historic Colosseum.The reflection will be based on the theme "In Prayer with Jesus on the Way of the Cross." The pope will write a unique treatment for each station, "centered on what Jesus experiences in that moment," the Holy See Press Office announced.Vatican News observed that the pope's decision to write his own mediations this year dovetails with the spiritual dimension of the Year of Prayer, a period of reflection the pope has called in anticipation of the 2025 Jubilee Year.In 1985 Pope John Paul II started the tradition of delegating the writing of the Good Friday Way of the Cross reflections to different individuals and groups. But he interrupted this custom...
null / Credit: ever/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 26, 2024 / 10:30 am (CNA).In vitro fertilization (IVF) has dominated political discourse in the past month after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling in February recognized the personhood of embryonic human life.The Catholic Church and many other pro-life advocates are opposed to IVF. The process involves fertilizing a woman's eggs with sperm in a laboratory, which separates procreation from the marital act and results in the destruction of millions of human lives, the embryos of which are never implanted.Some doctors who have ethical and medical objections to the treatment have been offering an alternative route to couples who struggle with infertility. The process, known as natural procreative technology (or NaPro for short), has been used for decades and is designed to treat underlying conditions that cause infertility and allow women to conceive naturally by monitoring their fertility cycles."We've gone the distance ...
Greensburg officers are sworn in to serve the Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. / Credit: Courtesy of the Diocese of GreensburgCNA Staff, Mar 26, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).A diocese in Pennsylvania is working to keep students safe by hiring retired police officers who become not only security detail but also mentors at each Catholic school. Days after his retirement from the Greensburg police station in July 2023 with 25 years of law enforcement experience, Lt. Ryan Maher began a new job as the director of security for the Diocese of Greensburg."I was tasked with forming a department and placing an officer in each of the 12 schools as the primary focus of my mission, with a longer-range mission of evaluating safety and security throughout the diocese in general," Maher told CNA. Chief Ryan Maher is sworn in as the director of security for the Diocese of Greensburg. Credit: Courtesy of the Diocese of GreensburgLast summer the former police officer filed the diocese as a...
Father Augustus Tolton's life was explored in an October 2022 episode of EWTN's "They Might Be Saints." / Credit: EWTN News NightlyCNA Staff, Mar 26, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).A priest on his way to sainthood has inspired the creation of a new Scouts patch in Illinois. The Catholic Committee on Scouting in the Diocese of Springfield announced the Venerable Father Augustine Tolton Activity Patch, which honors the first recognized Black priest in the United States.Depending on the grade of the child, there are several requirements and activities that need to be completed in order to receive the patch. Some of these requirements and activities include learning about Tolton's life, visiting a seminary or religious community, visiting Tolton's grave in Quincy, Illinois, and composing a prayer.Kyle Holtgrave, director of catechesis for the Diocese of Springfield, told CNA that he has "always been looking for ways to bring more attention to him [Tolton] and his ministry.""I work with...
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) senior counsel Kellie Fiedorek (center) and Elizabeth Gillette (right), who survived severe complications from a chemical abortion, spoke with EWTN News Nightly anchor Tracy Sabol about the case. / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN News NightlyCNA Newsroom, Mar 25, 2024 / 19:40 pm (CNA).The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday regarding the Biden administration's alleged deficient safeguards surrounding use of the chemical abortion drug mifepristone and the risk the drug poses to women.Among the safeguards, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine case could see the restoration of the initial requirement of in-person doctor visits before prescription of the pill as well as the initial seven-week limit on use of the abortion pill. In the case, the FDA challenged an August 2023 federal court ruling that affirmed that the FDA did not follow proper testing and safety protocols when it approved the abo...
