Ohio Republicans plan to override DeWine veto of bill banning sex changes for kids — By: Catholic News Agency

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine visits Pickaway-Ross Career and Technology Center in Chillicothe, Ohio, Sept. 16, 2022. / Credit: Jason H. Salley|Wikimedia|CC BY 3.0 DEED Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 4, 2024 / 17:40 pm (CNA). Republican lawmakers in Ohio plan to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill that would prevent doctors from performing transgender…

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Colorado Catholic preschools argue in federal court that state discriminates against them — By: Catholic News Agency

null / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 4, 2024 / 12:30 pm (CNA). A federal judge heard testimony this week in a trial that will decide whether the state of Colorado can exclude Catholic schools from participating in its universal preschool program. The Archdiocese of Denver, along with two Catholic preschools, is taking legal…

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Vatican responds to widespread backlash on same-sex blessing directive — By: Catholic News Agency

St. Peter’s Dome. / Credit: dade72 via Shutterstock Vatican City, Jan 4, 2024 / 10:10 am (CNA). The Vatican’s doctrine office issued a response on Thursday to “clarify the reception of Fiducia Supplicans” amid widespread international backlash to the Vatican’s recent declaration on same-sex blessings. Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for…

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SEEK24 continues in St. Louis with an eye to Salt Lake City in 2025 — By: Catholic News Agency

Students from hundreds of universities from around the world are attending this year’s SEEK24 conference in St. Louis. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA St. Louis, Mo., Jan 4, 2024 / 09:10 am (CNA). A record number of college-age students, priests, bishops, religious brothers, sisters, and more are attending this week’s SEEK24 conference in downtown St. Louis…

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Young people to make pilgrimage to Christ the King shrine for religious freedom in Mexico — By: Catholic News Agency

Participants in the 2023 National Youth Pilgrimage to the Christ the King statue high atop Cubilete in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. / Credit: Isaacvp, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 3, 2024 / 18:40 pm (CNA). With the theme “We ask for citizen participation, we demand religious freedom,” thousands…

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Resistance to same-sex blessings grows in Africa, but bishops are divided globally — By: Catholic News Agency

Members of the Episcopal Conference of Ivory Coast (CECCI). / Credit: CECCI Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 3, 2024 / 17:40 pm (CNA). Bishops in several African countries will not allow blessings for same-sex couples as opposition to a Vatican declaration continues to grow on the continent, but bishops globally remain heavily divided on implementation. More than two…

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Cardinal Fernández: Vatican’s same-sex blessings guidance is ‘clear answer’ to German bishops — By: Catholic News Agency

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Prensa Rome Newsroom, Jan 3, 2024 / 18:20 pm (CNA). Amid significant confusion about the Vatican’s recent guidance on same-sex blessings, the document’s architect has lashed out at those advancing the most liberal interpretation: Catholic leadership in Germany.  Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery…

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