Category: Church News

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…

null / Credit: Carlos Perez via Cathopic ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 4, 2023 / 18:40 pm (CNA). The bishop of Saltillo in the Mexican border state of Coahuila, Hilario González García, has announced the automatic excommunication (“latae sententiae”) of the one or more thieves who broke into a Catholic church and stole and desecrated the…

The small procession of Franciscan friars, with the Custos of the Holy Land, arrives in Manger Square, in front of the Basilica of the Nativity, in Bethlehem on Saturday, Dec. 2, the day of the solemn entrance for the beginning of Advent. The Square, typically crowded with local believers and pilgrims, was empty. Dec. 2,…

null / Unsplash. ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 4, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). Marie Stopes International opened a clinic Nov. 23 in Cancun in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, raising concerns among pro-life leaders about what has been locally called “death tourism.” Marie Stopes International offers “sexual and reproductive health services, including legal interruption…

Archbishop Timothy Broglio blesses the doors to be used as a Holy Door for the 2025 Jubilee Year at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 3, 2023. / Credit: The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Washington D.C., Dec 4, 2023 / 16:10…

A member of the maintenance crew at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., places a seal on the Holy Door at the basilica after Archbishop Timothy Broglio blessed the seal and doors on Dec. 3, 2023. / Credit: The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception…

Pope Francis at his general audience on Nov. 22, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA CNA Staff, Dec 4, 2023 / 14:02 pm (CNA). Pope Francis has added his signature to an “interfaith statement” meant to call attention to what the Holy Father and other advocates say is the ongoing crisis of climate change threatening much…

Turin Cathedral. / Credit: Eccekevin |Wikipedia|CC BY-SA 4.0 CNA Staff, Dec 4, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA). Climate activists in Italy over the weekend disrupted a Mass celebrated by Turin Archbishop Roberto Repole, with the demonstrators reading from Pope Francis’ works on the environment during the incident.  Activists with the climate group Extinction Rebellion appeared…

Military personnel stand guard at the entrance of a gymnasium while police investigators (background) look for evidence after a bomb attack at Mindanao State University in Marawi in the southern Philippines on Dec. 3, 2023. / Credit: Merlyn Manos/AFP via Getty Images Rome Newsroom, Dec 4, 2023 / 11:24 am (CNA). Pope Francis offered his…

The pope was assisted in reading his prepared remarks for the Sunday Angelus by his aide, Monsignor Paolo Braida. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 3, 2023 / 08:32 am (CNA). Pope Francis, for the second consecutive Sunday, was assisted by an aide in praying the Angelus, as he continues to recover from an acute…