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null / Credit: Jill Sauve/Unsplash Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 25, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA). Nearly 30 prominent Catholic scholars have signed on to an essay calling for advancing “a Catholic vision of the human person” and bringing about a society that puts “life at the center.” The essay, published by First Things this month,…
Archbishop Ulises Gutiérrez of Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela and second vice president of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference. / Credit: CEV ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 25, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA). Ulises Gutiérrez, the archbishop of Ciudad Bolívar and second vice president of the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference, said the opposition primary elections in Venezuela on Sunday…
Hussam Abu Sini and Chiara Pezzulich bring their daughter, Marta, to be baptized on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, in St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Haifa, Israel. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Hussam Abu Sini Jerusalem, Oct 25, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA). Catholic couple Hussam Abu Sini and Chiara Pezzulich hadn’t planned to…
Stan “JR” Zerkowski received a handwritten note from Pope Francis in October 2023. / Credit: JR Zerkowski/Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 24, 2023 / 18:56 pm (CNA). A Kentucky man involved in LGBTQ Catholic ministry has posted a letter online he says he received earlier this month from Pope Francis thanking him for his work….
Panelists (from left) Rev. Dr. Jack Sullivan Jr., Debra Milke, and Randal Padgett at an Oct. 23, 2023, Catholic Mobilizing Network event at Xavier University’s Bellarmine Chapel in Cincinnati. / Credit: Catholic Mobilizing Network CNA Staff, Oct 24, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA). A Catholic organization hosted a panel discussion Monday night featuring two death…
The archbishop of Seville, Spain, José Ángel Saiz Meneses, and his auxiliary, Bishop Teodoro León Muñoz, at a press conference announcing the Nov. 18, 2023, beatification of the Spanish martyrs. / Credit: Archdiocese of Seville ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 24, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). On Nov. 18, the Archdiocese of Seville will celebrate the…
Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández as a member of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, the Vatican department charged with authoritatively interpreting canon law, despite the pope’s September decision to excuse the cardinal from participating in his own department’s most sensitive legal work. Share Cardinal Fernández’s appointment was announced in the daily Vatican…
Gold dome of Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. Via Shutterstock. / null Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2023 / 16:40 pm (CNA). The Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday upheld the state’s “heartbeat” law that bans abortion at six weeks and recognizes the personhood of unborn babies. The 6-1 decision allows the “Living Infants Fairness and…
null / Alex Krisan/Shutterstock. CNA Staff, Oct 24, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA). A Texas county this week became the largest yet in the state to enact a so-called “abortion travel ban” in its jurisdiction, passing broad restrictions on the act of assisting in or facilitating abortions there. The Commissioners Court of Lubbock County voted…
Synod on Synodality delegates meet in round table discussion groups Oct. 21, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Oct 24, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA). Synod on Synodality delegates in Rome this month are participating in something called “conversation in the Spirit,” a method of communal discernment based on prayer and listening. “Synodal listening…
