Sister Belén de la Cruz. / Credit: Fundación Declausura ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 15, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA). The Catholic Association of Propagandists hosted a conference Nov. 15 titled “What’s the use of a cloistered nun in the 21st century?” According to its statutes, the Spanish group is “a private association of lay faithful…

Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, vice-president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, at the USCCB’s fall meeting Nov. 15, 2023. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA Baltimore, Md., Nov 15, 2023 / 19:30 pm (CNA). The U.S. bishops will continue to highlight the threat of abortion as a “pre-eminent priority” in the introduction to a…

“Love life, choose life:” National March for Life and Family in Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 18, 2022. / Credit: Sister Amata Nowaszewska Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 15, 2023 / 17:15 pm (CNA). Polish lawmakers in the New Left political party introduced two bills that would liberalize the country’s abortion laws after the 2023 elections pushed the…

Pope Benedict XVI on April 21, 2007, in Vigevano, Italy. / Credit: miqu77/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 15, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). A supposed comment by the late Pope Benedict XVI concerning Spain and the devil has been circulating on social media in recent days. The observation attributed to the pontiff comes from Jorge…