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Members of an Italian pro-life and pro-family organization marched in the "Demonstration for Life" May 20, 2023, with a banner saying "There's life in the mother's womb. Let's care for it. #stopabortion" / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, May 20, 2023 / 12:48 pm (CNA).Thousands of individuals, families, and young people braved the cool, rainy weather to march in Italys national "Demonstration for Life" in Rome on Saturday afternoon.The walk May 20 star...

Null / Torwaistudio, ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 20, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).In the developing sexual abuse of minors scandal involving Jesuits in Bolivia, a May 13 article in the Spanish newspaper El País implicated two other priests, Francesc Peris and Carlos Villamil, and also published the testimonies of eight alleged victims.The Jesuits asked the victims to make a formal complaint with the Society of Jesus and offered their assistance in filing a complaint with the public prosecutor.&n...

Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna, was made a cardinal during the consistory of Oct. 5, 2019. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA.Rome Newsroom, May 20, 2023 / 11:46 am (CNA).Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has been asked by Pope Francis to head a peace mission between Russia and Ukraine on behalf of the Vatican, the Holy See press office director said Saturday."The timing of such a mission, and its modes, are currently being studied," Matteo Bruni said in a brief statement to journalists May 2...

Statue of Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, Bosnia Herzegovina. / Gnuckx via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).Rome Newsroom, May 20, 2023 / 08:42 am (CNA).An institution has been formed in Rome to study alleged Marian apparitions and other supernatural phenomena in the Catholic Church.The International Observatory on Marian Apparitions and Mystical Phenomenon (OISA) was established in April and is part of the Pontifical International Marian Academy.The objective of the observatory is to research alleged Marian appar...

St. Anne's Gate / Wikimapia.orgCNA Newsroom, May 18, 2023 / 15:13 pm (CNA).An unidentified man is in custody after driving a car at high speed through a gate at the Vatican Thursday, the Holy See press office said.A guard stationed at the Santa Anna entrance fired his weapon in the direction of the vehicles front tires, hitting the left front fender, but the vehicle proceeded onto the Vatican grounds until the driver got out at the San Damaso Courtyard, the main courtyard of the Apostolic P...

Map of the four routes that will make up the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in summer 2024. / Image courtesy of National Eucharistic CongressWashington D.C., May 18, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA).This past Wednesday, the executive team for the National Eucharistic Congress announced it will be launching a National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in the summer of 2024. The pilgrimage will consist of four cross-country eucharistic processions, collectively traversing the entire continental United States over a tw...

After receiving criticism a Manhattan Catholic church has changed the name of an art display from the title "God is Trans: A Queer Spiritual Journey" to "A Queer Spiritual Journey." / CNA/Beyond My Ken|Wikipedia|GFDLBoston, Mass., May 18, 2023 / 14:51 pm (CNA).Following concerns expressed by the Archdiocese of New York, a Manhattan Catholic church has changed the name of an art display from "God Is Trans: A Queer Spiritual Journey" to "A Queer Spiritual Journey...

Universidad Católica Inmaculada Concepción of the Archdiocese of Managua (UCICAM). / Credit: UCICAM official websiteACI Prensa Staff, May 18, 2023 / 15:45 pm (CNA).The Nicaraguan Ministry of the Interior (Migob) announced in official media the "voluntary dissolution" of the Immaculate Conception Catholic University of the Archdiocese of Managua (UCICAM), which functioned as a formation center for seminarians from the Nicaraguan capital.According to ministerial agreement 77-2023-OSFL,...

A view of Vatican City State - / vaticanstate.vaRome Newsroom, May 19, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).A Vatican magistrate has sentenced the unidentified man who forcibly entered Vatican City on Thursday night to mandatory psychiatric treatment, according to the Holy See press office.The man was taken into Vatican custody on the night of May 18 after driving a car at high speed through a gate at the Vatican, bypassing the checkpoints of both the Swiss Guard and Gendarmes.After being questioned in the pre...

A drag performer dresses up as a Catholic religious sister and dances provocatively on stage while wearing a gay pride flag. / rYN/YouTube Nov 8, 2018Boston, Mass., May 19, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA).A small group of students who protested an annual drag show at the Catholic Loyola University Chicago told CNA that a group of counterprotesters destroyed their signs, disparaged their faith, and later threatened them with violence on social media. Rising juniors Emily Torres and Matthew McKenna res...