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Father Marko Rupnik, SJ. / Screenshot Vatican News Vatican City, Oct 27, 2023 / 08:52 am (CNA). The Vatican announced Friday that Pope Francis has decided to lift the statute of limitations in the case of Father Marko Rupnik, the former Jesuit priest and mosaic artist accused of serious abuses against women. Following the revelation…
Delegates at the Synod on Synodality will vote on the assembly’s synthesis report on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. / Vatican News Vatican City, Oct 27, 2023 / 09:50 am (CNA). A summary report of this month’s synodal assembly in Rome is nearing finalization — with both anticipation and apprehension mounting over what the critical document…
Synod members, led by Cardinal Gabetti, process into Saint Peter’s Basilica to pray the Rosary for Peace. / Credit: © Evandro Inetti/EWTN News/Vatican Pool Vatican City, Oct 27, 2023 / 05:55 am (CNA). Synod delegates gathered in St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday evening to pray the rosary for peace, amid the ongoing war between Israel…
U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 26, 2023 / 17:20 pm (CNA). In testimony to the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs on Wednesday, experts said that religious persecution across the world poses a serious threat to American citizens and U.S. national security. The hearing, which…
A shopping mall is destroyed after hurricane Otis hit Acapulco on Oct. 25, 2023 in Acapulco, Mexico. Otis made landfall through the coast of Acapulco around midnight of Oct. 25 as a category 5 storm. / Credit: Oscar Guerrero Ramirez/Getty Image ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 26, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). In response to the…
Displaced Palestinians who fled their houses amid Israeli strikes wait at a food distribution point as they shelter in tents set up in a United Nations-run center following Israel’s call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 26, 2023, amid…
Bishop Robert Barron speaks to EWTN’s Colm Flynn about evangelizing the culture today. October 2023. / Credit: Word on Fire Vatican City, Oct 26, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA). Bishop Robert Barron said he regrets the Catholic Church’s “hand-wringing” in recent decades over how to share the Christian message with a secular culture. In an…
The southern border town of Qalaia, Lebanon. / Credit: Al-Qulaya Facebook page ACI MENA, Oct 26, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA). The scene of tension is not new to the villages of Lebanon’s southern border, especially the Christian ones. The towns that experienced clashes throughout the period of the Israeli presence in Lebanon, and then…
Photos of martyred Christians at a public event in Bhubaneswar in 2010. / Credit: Anto Akkara Bangalore, India, Oct 26, 2023 / 13:05 pm (CNA). The Church in India has welcomed the news that the Vatican will initiate the beatification process for the 35 Catholic martyrs of Kandhamal who were killed in the 2008 Christian…
Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, S.J., with the official image of the 10th World Meeting of Families in Rome. / Screenshot from Diocesi di Roma YouTube channel. Rome Newsroom, Oct 26, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). The news of Father Marko Rupnik’s return to priestly ministry despite having been accused of sexual abuse interrupted the bishops’…
