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EWTN News explains: How does the Chaldean Church elect its next patriarch?
Pope Leo XIV announced this week that he had accepted the resignation of Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako from…
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CNA explains: How does ‘Mass dispensation’ work, and when is it used?
null / Credit: FotoDax/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 26, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Amid heavy immigration enforcement by the Trump…
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CNA explains: What is natural family planning?
Credit: Chinnapong/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 20, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). In an era when artificial contraception often dominates public…
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What is ‘papal infallibility?’ CNA explains an often-misunderstood Church teaching
When Pope Pius IX declared the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary on Dec. 8, 1854, he…
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CNA explains: When is a deportation policy ‘intrinsically evil’ and when is it not?
A person detained is taken to a parking lot on the far north side of the city before being transferred…
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CNA explains: What does it mean to be a doctor of the Church?
St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credi: cinemavision/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 2, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Vatican on Saturday named…
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Syrian bishop kidnapped by ISIS in 2015 explains challenges facing the Church in his country
The archbishop of Homs for the Syriac Catholics, Jacques Mourad, speaks with ACI MENA, CNA’s Arabic-language news partner, about the…
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CNA explains: How should we approach AI companionship?
null / Credit: Shutterstock AI/Shutterstock Rome, Italy, Oct 22, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). As world leaders raise concerns about…
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Pope Leo XIV explains why Christian hope is better than optimism
Pope Leo XIV waves from the popemobile during an Oct. 15, 2025 public audience in St. Peter's Square. / Credit:…
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CNA Explains: Everything you should know about relics
Relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis on display. / Credit: Courtesy of Milagro Eucarístico Perú – 1649 CNA Staff, Sep 4,…
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