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Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II holds the Christmas Eve Mass at the Nativity of Christ Cathedral in Egypt's administrative capital, on Jan. 6, 2023, in Cairo, Egypt. / Islam Safwat/Getty ImagesRome Newsroom, Apr 21, 2023 / 09:25 am (CNA).The head of the Coptic Church is scheduled to offer the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in the Catholic Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome on May 14.According to Father Martin Browne, an official at the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, this l...

A fragment on the true cross on which Jesus was condemned to death. / Daniel Ibanez/CNAWashington D.C., Apr 19, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).Thanks to a gift from Pope Francis to King Charles III, two pieces of the true cross on which Jesus was crucified will lead the reigning monarch of the United Kingdoms coronation procession May 6.The precious relics have been inlaid into the "Cross of Wales," which will head Charles procession into Westminster Abbey, where he will be officially crowned.M...

Pope Francis delivered an address before praying the Regina Caeli on Divine Mercy Sunday April 16, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Apr 18, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).By deciding to leave the hospital as soon as possible last month and immediately showing himself standing and not in a wheelchair, Pope Francis wanted to send out two signals. The first is that, despite the infirmities of his age, he still manages and intends to govern, and therefore one should not even think of a shadow papacy. The ...

Daniel Ortega / Bishop Silvio Báez. / Credit: Ricardo Patiño (CC BY-SA 2.0) / Credit: Facebook Silvio José BáezACI Prensa Staff, Apr 18, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Báez of Managua, Nicaragua, who is living in exile in the United States, responded to new verbal attacks by Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega saying they are signs of the weakness and desperation of the president of the Central American country."We Nicaraguans have to learn to interpret the language of the...

James Grein speaks at the Silence Stops Now rally in Baltimore, Nov. 13, 2018. / Christine Rousselle/CNA.Denver, Colo., Apr 18, 2023 / 16:38 pm (CNA).The criminal complaint filed in Wisconsin this week against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick was revealed to have come from James Grein, who has previously accused the laicized clergyman of serially abusing him over many years in several U.S. states. Grein filed the only previous criminal complaint against McCarrick, now facing adjudication in Ma...

Daniel Ortega / Bishop Silvio Báez. / Credit: Ricardo Patiño (CC BY-SA 2.0) / Credit: Facebook Silvio José BáezACI Prensa Staff, Apr 18, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Báez of Managua, Nicaragua, who is living in exile in the United States, responded to new verbal attacks by Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega saying they are signs of the weakness and desperation of the president of the Central American country."We Nicaraguans have to learn to interpret the language of the...

Former U.S. postal worker Gerald Groff believes his religious freedom was violated when he was reprimanded for refusing to work on Sundays. / First Liberty InstituteWashington D.C., Apr 19, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA).The U.S. Supreme Courts conservative majority seemed open to expanding religious rights protections in the workplace during oral arguments late Tuesday morning, but some were hesitant about making any far-reaching changes to legal precedent. All nine justices heard oral arguments in Grof...

Health care professionals at the Colorado-based, pro-life Bella Health and Wellness health care clinic. / Bella Health and WellnessDenver, Colo., Apr 17, 2023 / 13:02 pm (CNA).A federal judge granted a pro-life health care clinic a temporary exemption from Colorados first-in-the-nation ban on the abortion pill reversal regimen after the clinic filed a lawsuit soon after the measure took effect.U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Domenico said in his injunction Sunday that the new law, which was par...

Pope Francis meets participants in the plenary assembly of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches at the Vaticans Clementine Hall, Feb. 18, 2022 / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Apr 17, 2023 / 11:55 am (CNA).On Monday Pope Francis introduced a limit of 80 years of age for retired bishops and patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches to take part in decisional voting.In the motu proprio Iam Pridem, issued April 17, the pope modified four articles in the Code of Canons for the Eastern Churches, ...

Historic Tower at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. / ShutterstockWashington D.C., Apr 17, 2023 / 15:55 pm (CNA).Lawmakers are demanding answers from the Biden administration after a military hospital ended a contract with the Franciscan friars who have provided Catholic pastoral services there for nearly two decades. The Holy Name College Friary in Silver Spring, Maryland, received a cease-and-desist order April 4, during Holy Week, that ordered them to ha...