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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Resistance to same-sex blessings grows in Africa, but bishops are divided globally — By: Catholic News Agency

Members of the Episcopal Conference of Ivory Coast (CECCI). / Credit: CECCI Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 3, 2024 / 17:40 pm (CNA). Bishops in several African countries will not allow blessings for same-sex couples as opposition to a Vatican declaration continues to grow on the continent, but bishops globally remain heavily divided on implementation. More than two…

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Cardinal Fernández: Vatican’s same-sex blessings guidance is ‘clear answer’ to German bishops — By: Catholic News Agency

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Prensa Rome Newsroom, Jan 3, 2024 / 18:20 pm (CNA). Amid significant confusion about the Vatican’s recent guidance on same-sex blessings, the document’s architect has lashed out at those advancing the most liberal interpretation: Catholic leadership in Germany.  Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery…

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