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CNA explains: What’s at stake for Catholics in Germany’s 2025 election?

The Reichstag building in Berlin, where the Bundestag meets. / Credit: jan zeschky via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) CNA Newsroom, Feb 21, 2025 / 14:10 pm (CNA). As German voters prepare for federal elections on Feb. 23, the country’s Catholics find themselves...

Pope Francis is ‘fragile and not out of danger,’ doctors say

Dr. Sergio Alfieri (right) and Dr. Luigi Carbone give a press conference at Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where Pope Francis is hospitalized for tests and treatment for bronchitis, on Feb. 21, 2025. Alfieri said the pope asked him to say...

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CNA explains: What’s at stake for Catholics in Germany’s 2025 election?

The Reichstag building in Berlin, where the Bundestag meets. /...

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