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Pope Francis heard confessions at a parish in Rome on Friday, March 17, 2023, and encouraged people to remember that God "holds out his hand and lifts us up whenever we realize that we are hitting rock bottom." / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNARome Newsroom, Mar 17, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA).Pope Francis heard confessions at a parish in Rome on Friday and encouraged people to remember that God "holds out his hand and lifts us up whenever we realize that we are hitting rock bottom."In ...

Church of the Sacred Heart in Bordeaux, France. / Credit: Olivier432 - Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 18, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).The walls of Sacred Heart Church, located in downtown Bordeaux, France, were vandalized with satanic graffiti and communist and anarchist symbols the night of March 12-13.In addition, the vandals burned trash on the churchs esplanade.The news was confirmed on March 13 by Constance Pluviaud, head of communications for the Archdiocese of Bordeaux.&q...

Father Sean Gough, a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, England, faced criminal charges for praying for free speech outside an abortion clinic after business hours in violation of a strict buffer zone law in the English city of Birmingham. "I pray wherever I go, inside my head, for the people around me. How can it be a crime for a priest to pray?" he said in a Feb. 9, 2023, statement from the ADF UK legal group. / Credit: ADF UKDenver, Colo., Mar 16, 2023 / 12:52 pm (CNA...

Null / Credit: Cherries/ShutterstockWashington D.C., Mar 15, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).A group of Jewish parents filed a lawsuit Monday against the California Department of Education, calling for the state to provide religious schools with equal access to special needs education funding for their students.Under California law, federal and state special education funding is available to public schools and secular private schools. However, state law prohibits these funds from going to privat...

Plan B. / Mike Mozart via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).Washington D.C., Mar 15, 2023 / 15:55 pm (CNA).Miami Universitys student government association has plans to install a "Plan B" emergency contraception vending machine on its Oxford, Ohio, campus in time for the fall semester. Plan B emergency contraception, also known as "the morning-after pill," is a one-step pill that can sometimes act as an abortifacient. Though plans have not yet been finalized, the universitys student governm...

Fire in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Chapel belonging to St. Francis of Assisi Parish in the village of Selva Oscura, Chile, March 13, 2023. / Credit: Bishopric of TemucoCNA Newsroom, Mar 15, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).The Catholic community of the Diocese of Temuco in Chile said no to violence following the March 13 fire that destroyed the Sacred Heart of Jesus chapel in the Amaza sector.In a public statement signed by the diocesan administrator, Father Juan Andrés Basly Erices, the community expresse...

Ruins after a militia attack in Benue state, Nigeria, during the last week of February 2023. / Credit: Courtesy of Michael Burton/Ignition633.orgWashington D.C., Mar 15, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA).The controversial presidential election on Feb. 25 still dominates Nigerias main news. Meanwhile, recent terrorist raids in Benue, a predominantly Catholic state in north-central Nigeria, are getting scant mention.Six counties in the Middle Belt state have seen deadly attacks by Fulani militants since the e...

Young people at Holy Family Mission in Counter Waterford, Ireland. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNACNA Staff, Mar 15, 2023 / 13:42 pm (CNA).A new gap year program gives young people the opportunity to spend one year living in Ireland in an intentional Catholic community with daily Mass, eucharistic adoration, and faith formation.Located in the rolling green hills of County Waterford, the Holy Family Mission program is seen by many local Catholics as a ray of hope for the Church in Ireland....

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany, NY. / Drew Proto via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)Denver, Colo., Mar 16, 2023 / 09:47 am (CNA).The Catholic Diocese of Albany has decided to file for bankruptcy, saying a financial reorganization will help provide some compensation for the hundreds of sex abuse victims who have filed lawsuits."I understand this filing causes uncertainty, but as a Church and a community of faith, we must recognize that victim-survivors are our sons and daughters,...

Triplets María Gorete dos Santos, María de Lourdes dos Santos, and María Aparecida dos Santos, 57, are all nuns belonging to the Franciscan Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. / Credit: Courtesy of Sister María Gorete dos SantosCNA Newsroom, Mar 16, 2023 / 07:57 am (CNA).Triplets María Gorete dos Santos, María de Lourdes dos Santos, and María Aparecida dos Santos, 57, are all nuns belonging to the Franciscan Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Born into a Catholic famil...