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null / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 28, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio filed a lawsuit against the state of Ohio that challenges the constitutionality of the statewide ban on doctors providing sex change drugs and operations to children. In a lawsuit filed in the Court of Common Pleas for…
Pope Francis presides at the Vatican’s chrism Mass on Holy Thursday, March 28, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Mar 28, 2024 / 09:30 am (CNA). On Holy Thursday, Pope Francis presided over a chrism Mass at which more than 1,880 priests, bishops, and cardinals renewed the promises made at their ordinations. Pope Francis…
Based on his extensive apostolate on the internet, Dominican friar Nelson Medina offers several tips. / Credit: Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 28, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Friar Nelson Medina, a Dominican known for his extensive apostolate on the internet, offered five tips for Catholics to do a better job evangelizing on social media….
Adoration. / Thoom / Shutterstock. CNA Staff, Mar 28, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). Did you know that it is possible to sing a special song of adoration on Holy Thursday and have your soul purified? It’s true, and the song is “Tantum Ergo.” First, some background… A plenary indulgence is a grace granted by…
A stripped altar on Holy Thursday 2015 at Mater Dei Parish in Irving, Texas. / Credit: Mater Dei Latin Mass parish via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Denver, Colo., Mar 28, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA). At the end of the season of Lent — and right before Easter — the Catholic Church observes the “sacred…
Workers continue to investigate and search for victims after the cargo ship Dali collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse yesterday, on March 27, 2024, in Baltimore. / Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 27, 2024 / 17:50 pm (CNA). In the wake of the Francis Scott Key Bridge’s…
The Brotherhood of the Holy Supper processes through Seville, Spain, on Holy Monday, March 25, 2024. / Credit: Joaquín Carmona Seville, Spain, Mar 27, 2024 / 18:15 pm (CNA). Holy Week in Seville is one of Spain’s most impressive, picturesque Catholic traditions. The faithful and members of some 70 community-based brotherhoods and confraternities prepare each…
Archbishop Alfredo José Espinoza Mateus of Quito presided over a solemn Mass in the Basilica of the National Vow in the Ecuadorian capital to renew the country’s consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. / Credit: International Eucharistic Congress 2024 ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 27, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Quito and…
On Holy Wednesday, the friars of the Custody of the Holy Land venerated the column to which, according to tradition, Jesus was bound to be scourged. They prayed the station dedicated to the column during the daily procession that the Franciscans perform inside the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher. At the end, they intoned the…
Catholic faithful offer prayers during an Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Mary’s Basilica in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad in India on Feb. 14, 2024. / Credit: NOAH SEELAM/AFP via Getty Images Bangalore, India, Mar 27, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA). A watchdog group that monitors violence committed against Christians in India has released…
