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A view of Baltimore's basilica nestled amid the city's famed row houses. / Public domainWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 12, 2023 / 14:40 pm (CNA).A 17-member commission created by the Archdiocese of Baltimore will investigate the roles that bishops, clergy, and other prominent Catholic figures within the archdiocese played in American slavery.The commission, which is still in its early stages, includes academics, archivists, and other researchers who are poring through old documents for...

Pope Francis arrives at the Paul VI Hall for his weekly general audience on Ash Wednesday Feb. 22, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNAVatican City, May 13, 2023 / 11:55 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Saturday issued a new constitution of the Vatican City State that further emphasizes the power of the pope over the sovereign state.The new constitution, called "the Fundamental Law of Vatican City State," is the third in history, and replaces a law promulgated by St. Pope John Paul II in 2000.The first c...

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry. / Credit: CatholicChicago/YouTubeDenver Newsroom, May 12, 2023 / 12:25 pm (CNA).Longtime Black Catholic leader Bishop Joseph N. Perry, an auxiliary bishop of Chicago, is the new chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).Perry, 75, succeeds Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of Louisville, Kentucky, who served two terms as chairman. Fabre, who became archbishop of Louisville in March 2022, requested that ...

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Null / Credit: CathopicACI Prensa Staff, May 10, 2023 / 16:35 pm (CNA).An investigation by the Spanish newspaper El Pais has revealed that the Spanish Jesuit priest Alfonso Pedrajas Moreno, who died in 2009, sexually abused as many as 85 boys and adolescents in the 1970s and 1980s and recorded the incidents in a secret diary as "blunders," and that the Jesuits covered it up.A nephew of Pedrajas found the diary and contacted the Society of Jesus in Bolivia to file a complaint, and then ...

Lybicheva Nina, 72, along with her grandchildren receives food items during a distribution to about 3,000 people by the local branch of Caritas Internationalis, a Catholic charity organization, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sept. 27, 2022. / Credit: YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty ImagesRome Newsroom, May 10, 2023 / 16:20 pm (CNA).Pope Francis on Thursday will meet with delegates of the Vaticans main charitable organization six months after he dismissed its top leaders in what the groups ousted general ...

Plenary of the Spanish Episcopal Conference. / Credit: CEEACI Prensa Staff, May 11, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).The Spanish Bishops Conference (CEE) criticized the May 9 ruling by the countrys constitutional court (TC) that upheld abortion as a right, thus, it said, making the human person developing in the womb "a true undocumented person."The executive commission of the CEE said in a statement that it deplores that the TC affirmed "that there are human beings who do not have rights&qu...

Immigrants seeking asylum in the United States stand in line to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the early morning hours after crossing into Arizona from Mexico on May 10, 2023, in Yuma, Arizona. / Credit: Mario Tama/Getty ImagesWashington D.C., May 10, 2023 / 12:45 pm (CNA).Title 42, the public health law that for the last three years has limited immigration into the United States, is set to expire on Thursday, May 11.In March 2020, the Trump administration invoked Title 42 of a 194...

Venezuelan migrants receive food while waiting for information to enter Peru in Arica, at the Chile-Peru border, on May 4, 2023. / Credit: AGUSTIN MERCADO/AFP via Getty ImagesACI Prensa Staff, May 10, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).In a May 8 interview with EWTN News, Bishop Marco Antonio Cortez Lara of Tacna and Moquegua in Peru said "its a serious thing" for a government to sacrifice its people for a failed ideological system.  The prelate was referring to the crisis of the migrants...

Cardinal James Michael Harvey presided over a eucharistic procession at the University of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelicum, in Rome on May 11, 2023. The 22nd edition of the annual procession was attended by about 130 students, faculty, and community members. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNARome Newsroom, May 11, 2023 / 12:25 pm (CNA)."We affirm in faith that the Lord walks where you walk, that he journeys at your side," Cardinal James Michael Harvey said Thursday before a eucharistic proc...