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Catholic News - Pope
Why the Church should promote religious tourism: An expert explains
Religious tourism draws hundreds of millions of people to various sites each year, generating billions of dollars, and the Americas…
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EWTN News explains: Why the Church once forbade Catholics to honor Confucius
Is Confucianism confusing to Catholics, or did the Church simply take centuries to clarify a stance on the teachings of…
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EWTN News explains: How is Catholic Communion bread made?
The Second Vatican Council referred to the Eucharist as “the source and summit of the Christian life,” St. Augustine referred…
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EWTN News explains: What does it mean that the pope is both head of state and head of the Church?
Unique among world leaders, the pope serves simultaneously as the universal spiritual head of the Catholic Church and as the…
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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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Catholic News - General
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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Catholic News - Pope
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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Catholic News - General
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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Catholic News - Americas
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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Catholic News - General
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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