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Cardinal Robert Sarah speaks with students and faculty at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas on May 25, 2023. / Credit: Benedicte Cedergren/AngelicumRome Newsroom, Jun 1, 2023 / 10:15 am (CNA).Cardinal Robert Sarah urged students studying at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas to ask in prayer for "an intimate and profound union with the Lord and with one another."Speaking at a Mass to mark the close of the academic year at the university in Rome known as the A...

Fulgence Kayishema, a former Rwandan police officer suspected to have ordered the killing of at least 2,000 Tutsis who were seeking refuge at St. Pauls Nyange Catholic Parish during the 1994 genocide, was arrested May 24, 2023. / Credit: Courtesy photoACI Africa, Jun 1, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).Fulgence Kayishema, a former Rwandan police officer who is suspected of having ordered the killing of at least 2,000 Tutsis who were seeking refuge at St. Pauls Nyange Catholic Parish in the current Nyundo D...

"Padre Pio," starring Shia LaBeouf, airs in theaters June 2, 2023. / Credit: Gravitas VenturesBoston, Mass., Jun 1, 2023 / 16:10 pm (CNA).The weight of playing St. Pio of Pietrelcina, more popularly known as Padre Pio, one of the most popular saints of the 20th century, was "enormous," Shia LaBeouf told CNA in late May. The new film "Padre Pio," starring "Transformers" and "Fury" star LaBeouf, airs in theaters June 2 and portrays the Italian fria...

Null / Credit: UnsplashWashington D.C., Jun 1, 2023 / 16:40 pm (CNA).The pro-life movement suffered a blow this week in two states after Nevadas Republican governor signed a pro-abortion bill into law and the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down two of the states restrictions on abortion. NevadaNevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed legislation late Tuesday to protect abortionists who violate abortion laws in other states and prevent health care licensing boards from disqualifying a person due to his or ...

The Archdiocese of Piura in Peru donated thousands of medicines May 30, 2023, to combat the epidemic of dengue fever that has affected almost all regions of the country, especially Lambayeque and Piura. / Credit: Archdiocese of PiuraACI Prensa Staff, Jun 1, 2023 / 17:15 pm (CNA).The Archdiocese of Piura in northern Peru donated thousands of doses of medication May 30 to the governments Regional Health Directorate (DIRESA) to combat the epidemic of dengue fever that has affected almost all region...

John Kirby, coordinator of the National Security Council for Strategic Communications at the White House. / Credit: EWTN News NightlyWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 1, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA).The Biden administration on Wednesday condemned Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortegas attempts to discredit the Catholic Church by accusing it of an illegal money laundering scheme. National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby called the latest attacks on the Catholic Church ...

Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. / Credit: CBS News Texas/YouTubeWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 31, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Amid an ongoing legal dispute between the Diocese of Fort Worth and a Carmelite monastery, the diocese announced that the Vatican formally recognized Bishop Michael Olson as having authority over the nuns.A diocesan statement said that the Vatican appointed the bishop as the pontifical commissary, which makes him "the popes representative in this m...

Bishop Franco Mulakkal. / file photo.Rome Newsroom, Jun 1, 2023 / 05:36 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignation of an Indian bishop cleared in early 2022 of charges of raping a religious sister in his diocese.The resignation of the 59-year-old Bishop Franco Mulakkal as head of the Diocese of Jalandhar comes more than 16 months after his acquittal by a court in Indias Kerala state in January 2022.The judge in the case found that "the prosecution failed to prove all the cha...

Father Andrew Small, OMI. / Photo courtesy of Father Small.Rome Newsroom, Jun 1, 2023 / 08:30 am (CNA).The Vatican is looking into the transfer of $17 million from the U.S. arm of a Church mission to an investment fund, according to the Associated Press.AP reported May 31 that Pope Francis has asked aides to "get to the bottom of how" the money was transferred.The transfers date mostly to 2021, when the board of directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies U.S.A. (TPMS-US) approved mo...

Bishop Giovani Arana of El Alto, Bolivia. / Credit: CEBACI Prensa Staff, May 30, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Bishop Giovani Arana of El Alto, secretary general of the Bolivian Bishops Conference, pointed out in his homily for Pentecost Sunday on May 28 that although the Church in the country has asked forgiveness of the victims and relatives of clerical sex abuse, he said, "we know that its not enough.""These weeks we have witnessed that abuse of minors has been committed within the Chu...