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‘It gives me hope’: Catholic advocates work to abolish death penalty at federal level

null / Credit: txking/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Sep 21, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). Pro-life advocates have seen significant gains in rolling back the death penalty in states around the country in recent years. A smaller but still determined band of activists and...

What is the SSPX? A look at the controversial traditionalist Catholic group

Priests and deacons of the Society of St. Pius X walk to Mass in Econe, western Switzerland, on June 29, 2009. / Credit: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Sep 21, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). A group of Carmelite nuns...

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