Pope Francis tells liturgists to avoid ‘pageantry or prominence’ — By: Catholic News Agency

null / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Feb 28, 2025 / 13:20 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Friday urged liturgists to accompany bishops and the faithful communities of their dioceses with humility and discretion. In a Feb. 28 message sent from Gemelli Hospital to liturgy professors and students of the Anselmianum — a pontifical university…

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Spanish bishops: Conditions for Pope Francis to resign are not met — By: Catholic News Agency

Pope Francis meets with the Spanish bishops at the Vatican on Nov. 28, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Madrid, Spain, Feb 27, 2025 / 17:50 pm (CNA). The secretary-general and spokesman for the Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE, by its Spanish acronym), Bishop Francisco César García Magán, expressed his conviction that the conditions for the resignation…

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Mexican state decriminalizes abortion; Catholics who support it excommunicated, bishop says — By: Catholic News Agency

Historic center of San Francisco de Campeche, capital of the Mexican state of Campeche in the country’s Yucatán Peninsula. / Credit: Ralf Roletschek, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons Puebla, Mexico, Feb 27, 2025 / 16:10 pm (CNA). Following the Feb. 25 decriminalization of abortion for up to 12 weeks of pregnancy in the Mexican state…

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Supreme Court pauses order that Trump pay $2 billion in foreign aid — By: Catholic News Agency

null / Credit: Wolfgang Schaller|Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 27, 2025 / 13:10 pm (CNA). The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday night temporarily paused an order from a lower court directing the White House to pay out roughly $2 billion in foreign aid grants to nonprofit organizations. The Department of Justice had filed an appeal with the ​​U.S. Court of Appeals…

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Catholic priests, religious brother attacked at Mozambique archdiocesan training center — By: Catholic News Agency

Members of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO). / Credit: CENCO ACI Africa, Feb 27, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Fear has gripped the Nazaré Training Center in Mozambique’s Archdiocese of Beira following a Sunday, Feb. 23, attack that left two priests and a religious brother at the facility injured. The Conference of Religious Institutes…

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