More than 50,000 sign petition to recognize 171 killed in Sri Lanka attack as martyrs — By: Catholic News Agency

The Vatican ambassador to Colombo, Archbishop Brian Udaigwe (third from left) and Sri Lanka’s Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith (fourth from left) take part in a remembrance service during the fifth anniversary of the Easter Sunday suicide attacks at St. Anthony Church in Colombo on April 21, 2024. / Credit: ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images ACI…

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Pro-lifers dismayed at Massachusetts pro-abortion governor’s appearances at Catholic school events — By: Catholic News Agency

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey walks across the campus of St. John’s Prep in Danvers, Massachusetts, on April 9, 2024. / Credit: Screenshot of St. John’s Prep Facebook page last visited April 19, 2024 Boston, Mass., Apr 23, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA). Pro-lifers in the Archdiocese of Boston are criticizing Cardinal Seán O’Malley over two…

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Bishops: Catholic Church in Spain unjustly singled out in plan to address sexual abuse — By: Catholic News Agency

Archbishop Luis Argüello and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. / Credit: Archdiocese of Valladolid; La Moncloa ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 23, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA). The Spanish government approved today in the Council of Ministers a plan to implement recommendations made in a report on sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.  While recognizing some…

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‘An unprecedented opportunity’: Augustine Institute announces move to St. Louis  — By: Catholic News Agency

The Augustine Institute’s new facilities in Florissant, Missouri. / Credit: Boeing Company and Augustine Institute CNA Staff, Apr 23, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA). The Augustine Institute, a Catholic educational and evangelization apostolate based in Denver for nearly two decades, announced on Tuesday that it will be moving its operations to a new campus in…

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urges ‘massive subsidized day care’ plan to reduce abortion — By: Catholic News Agency

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 23, 2024 / 11:45 am (CNA). Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is embracing a “massive subsidized day care initiative” to reduce abortions in the United States without restricting legal access to the procedure. In a new webpage recently added to Kennedy campaign’s…

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