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Olive harvest season in the southern border town of Rmeish, Lebanon, in the midst of a crisis situation. / Credit: Rmeish’s Facebook page CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 17:45 pm (CNA). About 90% of those living in southern Lebanon’s Christian villages have fled their homes amid the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, according to…
His Excellency José Ignacio Munilla is bishop of the Orihuela-Alicante Diocese in Spain. / Credit: Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 18:15 pm (CNA). The bishop of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, José Ignacio Munilla, has elaborated on his response to the Vatican declaration Fiducia Supplicans on the blessing of couples in…
Bishops gathered at the19th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar in Accra, Ghana, July 2022. / Courtesy of SECAM. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 21, 2023 / 16:51 pm (CNA). More Catholic bishops have publicly declared their opposition to the Vatican’s Fiducia Supplicans document, which permits nonliturgical blessings of homosexual couples,…
Woman with transgender symbol on her hand. / Juanje Garrido/shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 14:52 pm (CNA). Saint Mary’s College — a Catholic women’s school in Notre Dame, Indiana — is reversing its controversial transgender admissions policy, the school’s president revealed in an email on Thursday. President Katie Conboy had last month confirmed a…
Injured parishioners receive Communion on the third Sunday of Advent, Dec. 17, 2023, at Holy Family Parish in Gaza. / Credit: Father Gabriel Romanelli/Facebook CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 12:22 pm (CNA). The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has again denied claims that an IDF sniper “murdered” two women at the Catholic Holy Family Parish…
Pope Francis gives his annual Christmas address to the cardinals who work in Vatican offices on Dec. 21, 2023, in the gilded Hall of Benediction at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Dec 21, 2023 / 11:13 am (CNA). Pope Francis warned the Roman Curia on Thursday that “rigid ideological positions” can be…
Bishop José Ignacio Munilla of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain. / Credit: Archdiocese of Valladolid ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). The bishop of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, José Ignacio Munilla, is focusing on the implications of pastoral charity involved in blessing couples in irregular affective situations. The prelate shared his views on X, shortly…
A migrant carries a baby in the Darien Province in Panama on Sept. 22, 2023. More than 390,000 migrants have entered Panama through this jungle so far this year. / Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:50 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has called for a “humanitarian response” to…
A liturgy at St. Mary’s Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church, Arakuzha, India. / Achayan via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Bangalore, India, Dec 20, 2023 / 17:50 pm (CNA). Tensions are rising within the Syro-Malabar Church in the Indian state of Kerala as the Vatican’s Dec. 25 deadline for priests to implement a “universal” liturgy or face…
null / Credit: lunamarina/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:10 pm (CNA). Catholic bishops around the world are deeply divided on a Vatican declaration that permits nonliturgical blessings of homosexual couples: some bishops are welcoming the news, some are approaching it with caution, while others are outright refusing to implement it. In some countries, including…
