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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…
null / Credit: Cathopic ACI Africa, Oct 24, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). A diocese in Nigeria announced that Brother Godwin Eze, a monk who was kidnapped on Oct. 17 alongside two others from the Benedictine monastery in Eruku, was murdered. In a note shared with ACI Africa on Tuesday, Oct. 24, the administrator of…
null / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Vatican City, Oct 24, 2023 / 07:58 am (CNA). Pope Francis accepted the resignation of 59-year-old Polish Bishop Grzegorz Kaszak on Tuesday following public calls for him to step down over poor management of scandals involving priests in his diocese. Kaszak, who had led the southern Polish Diocese of Sosnowiec since…
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM, patriarch of Jerusalem. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2023 / 08:25 am (CNA). Editor’s note: Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, published this letter to his diocese on Tuesday, Oct. 24. It is reprinted here in full. Dear Brothers and Sisters,May the Lord give you…
Pope Francis arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Jan. 31, 2023. The streets of the pope’s five-mile drive from the N’Dolo Airport to the presidential residence were lined with thousands of locals who cheered and waved flags. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 24, 2023 / 10:18 am (CNA). New data from…
