Cardinal Becciu speaks of ‘drawing up a balance sheet’ of one’s life before God in homily — By: Catholic News Agency

Cardinal Angelo Becciu. / Credit: Claude Truong Ngoc, CC BY SA 40 via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Jan 5, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). After being convicted on several counts of embezzlement of Vatican funds, Cardinal Angelo Becciu gave a New Year’s Eve homily recommending the congregation draw up “a balance sheet” of one’s personal…

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SEEK24 speakers see ‘radical openness’ to Jesus among young conference attendees — By: Catholic News Agency

Approximately 24,000 people participate in Eucharistic adoration at the SEEK24 conference Jan. 3, 2024, in St. Louis. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA St. Louis, Mo., Jan 4, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA). Young Catholics attending the SEEK24 conference are expressing an openness to letting Jesus deeper into their lives, several of the headlining speakers told CNA…

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Peruvian Bishop Escudero delivers comprehensive critique of blessing irregular couples — By: Catholic News Agency

Monsignor Rafael Escudero is bishop of the Territorial Prelature of Moyobamba in Peru. / Credit: EWTN Noticias ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 4, 2024 / 18:20 pm (CNA). Issuing an energetic and thoroughgoing critique of Fiducia Supplicans, Bishop Rafael Escudero of Peru has ordered his priests to “not perform any form of blessing” for same-sex couples…

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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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