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Null / Credit: Dzelat/ShutterstockWashington D.C., Apr 11, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).A new document revealed that the Richmond Federal Bureau of Investigation used at least one undercover agent to obtain information about traditionalist Catholics, said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who chairs the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.In response to its inquiry, the committee announced it received from the FBI a heavily redacted 18-page document that uncovered limited informati...

Carabineros at the funeral Mass for 1st Cpl. Daniel Rodrigo Palma Yáñez, who was killed in the line of duty April 5, 2023. / Credit: Twitter Carabineros de ChileACI Prensa Staff, Apr 11, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA).At a heavily attended Mass in the Rancagua, Chile, cathedral, police officers, officials, family members, and the faithful bid their last farewell to 1st Cpl. Daniel Rodrigo Palma Yáñez, who was killed in the line of duty.Palma was murdered the night of April 5 when he responded to an e...

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California. / Karl_Sonnenberg/ShutterstockWashington D.C., Apr 11, 2023 / 15:20 pm (CNA).Since a federal judges Friday ruling called the legality of the abortion drug mifepristone into question, the governors of New York, Washington, Massachusetts, and California revealed they have begun stockpiling years worth of chemical abortion supplies for use in their states.In the case that last weeks ruling suspending the FDAs abortion pill approval is upheld by higher courts, these ...

Historic Tower at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. / ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 11, 2023 / 18:20 pm (CNA).One of the top military hospitals in the U.S. says it is reviewing a Catholic pastoral care contract it awarded last month to a Virginia-based firm that specializes in providing government clients with industrial machinery, tactical gear, and janitorial supplies, in addition to chaplains and other religious staff.Franciscan friars at Holy Na...

Pope Francis at his Wednesday general audience on April 12, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNAVatican City, Apr 12, 2023 / 04:10 am (CNA).Pope Francis has told "keyboard warriors" to put aside online polemics and get out from behind their desks to proclaim the Gospel. Speaking in St. Peters Square on April 12, the pope urged Christians to go out and "get moving" to share the good news of the Gospel with the world. "One does not proclaim the Gospel standing still, locked in an off...

Pope Francis prays at his Wednesday audience in St. Peters Square on April 12, 2023. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNAVatican City, Apr 12, 2023 / 10:47 am (CNA).Pope Francis revised a law regulating the Vaticans judicial system on Wednesday, reversing some aspects of the popes prior reform of the Vatican City courts.The April 12 motu proprio eliminates the previous mandate for a full-time Vatican magistrate, allowing all members of the court to be able to take on other positions. It also sti...

Null / nullACI Prensa Staff, Apr 12, 2023 / 11:45 am (CNA).Two Catholic Relief Services (CRS) workers were shot and killed April 9, Easter Sunday, while riding in a CRS vehicle in the Amhara region of Ethiopia on their way back from an assignment in Addis Ababa.In an April 10 statement, CRS, the international Catholic humanitarian aid agency that serves those most in need in more than 100 countries, said it was "devastated to report the loss" of two of its staff workers, Chuol Tongyik,...

Synod on Synodality logo / Courtesy USCCBRome Newsroom, Apr 12, 2023 / 09:25 am (CNA).A committee of 22 people this week kicked off the writing process for the Synod on Synodalitys working document that will be the blueprint for discussions during the meeting of bishops in October. According to a statement from the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops on April 12, a "group of experts from five continents" is meeting at the Vatican until April 19 "with the aim of starti...

Death row in an American prison. / Jerry-Rainey/ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Apr 12, 2023 / 12:15 pm (CNA).Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, citing "pro-life values," has called on lawmakers to end the states death penalty in the upcoming legislative session. At the same time, he called for the legalization of abortions for pregnant women who were raped or victims of incest.The death penalty is "inconsistent with Louisianas pro-life values, as it quite literally promotes a culture of...

Null / ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, Apr 10, 2023 / 15:18 pm (CNA).Organizations defending freedom of the press and freedom of speech in Nicaragua are demanding the release of Víctor Ticay, a Nicaraguan journalist who was arrested by the dictatorship on Holy Thursday after posting about a Holy Week event on social media.On April 7, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) demanded the immediate release of Ticay and an end to the arrest of members of the press for doing their jo...