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Gold dome of Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. Via Shutterstock. / null Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2023 / 16:40 pm (CNA). The Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday upheld the state’s “heartbeat” law that bans abortion at six weeks and recognizes the personhood of unborn babies. The 6-1 decision allows the “Living Infants Fairness and…
null / Alex Krisan/Shutterstock. CNA Staff, Oct 24, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA). A Texas county this week became the largest yet in the state to enact a so-called “abortion travel ban” in its jurisdiction, passing broad restrictions on the act of assisting in or facilitating abortions there. The Commissioners Court of Lubbock County voted…
Synod on Synodality delegates meet in round table discussion groups Oct. 21, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Oct 24, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA). Synod on Synodality delegates in Rome this month are participating in something called “conversation in the Spirit,” a method of communal discernment based on prayer and listening. “Synodal listening…
null / Credit: Cathopic ACI Africa, Oct 24, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA). A diocese in Nigeria announced that Brother Godwin Eze, a monk who was kidnapped on Oct. 17 alongside two others from the Benedictine monastery in Eruku, was murdered. In a note shared with ACI Africa on Tuesday, Oct. 24, the administrator of…
null / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Vatican City, Oct 24, 2023 / 07:58 am (CNA). Pope Francis accepted the resignation of 59-year-old Polish Bishop Grzegorz Kaszak on Tuesday following public calls for him to step down over poor management of scandals involving priests in his diocese. Kaszak, who had led the southern Polish Diocese of Sosnowiec since…
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM, patriarch of Jerusalem. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2023 / 08:25 am (CNA). Editor’s note: Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, published this letter to his diocese on Tuesday, Oct. 24. It is reprinted here in full. Dear Brothers and Sisters,May the Lord give you…
Pope Francis arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Jan. 31, 2023. The streets of the pope’s five-mile drive from the N’Dolo Airport to the presidential residence were lined with thousands of locals who cheered and waved flags. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 24, 2023 / 10:18 am (CNA). New data from…
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s unicameral legislative body, located in Kiev. / Credit: Drop of Light/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2023 / 10:50 am (CNA). The Ukrainian Parliament this month advanced legislation widely seen as an attempt to ban an Orthodox church from the country over allegations that it is linked to Russia. The Verkhovna…
Pilgrims walk from Silver Spring, Maryland, to the St. John Paul II National Shrine on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023, the day before his feast day. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Saint John Paul II National Shrine Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2023 / 11:51 am (CNA). About 100 Catholics walked a 12-mile-long pilgrimage from…
Ciao amici, Greetings from Rome and the synod on synodality. We’re entering into the home stretch now, with just a few more days of deliberations, and then the votes on the synod’s interim report. At this stage, borrowing from the late Arizona congressman Morris Udall, one bishop told me that “everything’s been said already, but…
