Maryland parents argue for right to opt children out of LGBT curriculum in appeals court — By: Catholic News Agency

Parents protest the Montgomery County School Board’s policy blocking them from opting out their children from pro-homosexual and transgender materials. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Becket Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 5, 2023 / 15:18 pm (CNA). Attorneys for a group of over 300 primarily Catholic, Muslim, and Ethiopian Orthodox parents from Montgomery County, Maryland, argued…

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Canonization cause advances for ‘God’s architect,’ Antoni Gaudí — By: Catholic News Agency

The Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, Spain, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí, whose cause for beatification is being considered by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. / Credit: Public domain; r.nagy/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 5, 2023 / 11:21 am (CNA). The beatification cause for Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect known as “God’s…

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Mexican presidential hopeful Verástegui pledges to eliminate gender ideology from schools — By: Catholic News Agency

Eduardo Verástegui. / Credit: Eduardo Verástegui/Facebook ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 4, 2023 / 18:20 pm (CNA). Eduardo Verástegui, filmmaker and aspiring presidential candidate in Mexico, published a “manifesto” against gender ideology, pledging to eliminate gender ideology indoctrination from schools if he is elected president of the nation. Verástegui, producer of the box office hit “Sound…

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