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The one-year-old "What Is A Woman?" documentary by The Daily Wire's Matt Walsh has amassed more than 177 million views in less than a week on Twitter. / Credit: Matt Walsh/YouTubeWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 7, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA).The one-year-old "What Is a Woman?" documentary has amassed more than 177 million views in less than a week on Twitter. Despite pushback from transgender activists, the documentary has had enormous success since the film was offered on Twit...

Null / Shutterstock.Denver, Colo., Jun 8, 2023 / 08:50 am (CNA).Congress must act to help prevent the exposure of children to online pornography and to combat online exploitation and abuse of children and other vulnerable people, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) said Wednesday."Online child exploitation threatens the safety and well-being of our young people and destroys families and communities," four leading bishops of the USCCB said in a June 7 letter to members of Co...

Pope Francis at his general audience in St Peters Square on May 31, 2023. / Adi Zace/EWTNRome Newsroom, Jun 8, 2023 / 05:25 am (CNA).One day after Pope Francis abdominal surgery for an incisional hernia, medical staff report that the pope is "in good general condition, alert and breathing naturally," according to the Vatican.Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told journalists on June 8 that the popes routine follow-up examinations were good and that he will continue to rest in Romes Gemell...

Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento, California. / Credit: Randy Miramontez/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 8, 2023 / 07:50 am (CNA).Officials in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis administration confirmed Tuesday that they were responsible for sending 16 migrants from the southern border to the Diocese of Sacramentos Catholic Charities headquarters in California.The South American migrants were flown to California from the Texas border and dropped off at the Catholic Charities he...

Parental and religious freedom rights advocates, including a group of Muslim parents, on June 6, 2023, protest a Maryland school system policy that removes parents authority to opt their children out of homosexual and transgender coursework. / Credit: The Religious Freedom InstituteWashington D.C., Jun 8, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA).A group of Muslim parents joined parental and religious freedom rights advocates Tuesday to protest a Maryland school systems new policy that removes the parents authority...

Null / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, Jun 6, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA).Last Saturday, hundreds of parents in Honduras officially launched the "For Our Children" movement, a citizen platform that seeks to stop the attempt to impose gender ideology in the public school curriculum.With the slogan "Dont mess with my children," a group of approximately 500 people met June 3 at the Cortés Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the city of San Pedro de Sula to present a manifesto h...

President Joe Biden welcomes the Kansas City Chiefs to the White House in Washington, D.C., June 5, 2023. Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker (back row, center) wore a tie with a pro-life message on it. / Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesBoston, Mass., Jun 6, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA).During the Kansas City Chiefs visit to the White House on Monday in celebration of their Super Bowl victory in February, the teams kicker, Harrison Butker, made a statement in support of the unborn by wearing a custom-made ...

A pro-LGBTQ message on a Methodist church in Nashville, Tennessee. / Glendale United Methodist Church|FlickrWashington D.C., Jun 6, 2023 / 15:45 pm (CNA).As the United Methodist Church (UMC) is rocked by disagreement over LGBTQ+ issues, more than 4,000 congregations have officially split from the denomination this year. More congregations joined the growing schism this weekend with 60 leaving in Michigan on Saturday and 250 in Kentucky splitting with the UMC on Sunday. Jay Therrell, pr...

Pope Francis prayed before a relic of St. Therese of Lisieux at the beginning of his general audience in St. Peter's Square, and shortly before going to the hospital for an abdominal surgery, on June 7, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNAVatican City, Jun 7, 2023 / 04:37 am (CNA).One of Pope Francis last gestures before undergoing abdominal surgery on Wednesday was to pray before a relic of St. Therese of Lisieux.A relic of the French Carmelite nun, also known as St. Therese of the Child Jesus, was p...

Pope Francis greeted pilgrims in St. Peter's Square on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, a few hours before he will be hospitalized for abdominal surgery under general anesthesia. / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, Jun 7, 2023 / 03:01 am (CNA).Pope Francis will undergo abdominal surgery under general anesthesia on Wednesday afternoon, the Vatican has confirmed.The operation was planned by the popes medical team in recent days after it became necessary due to a hernia that was causing recurrent, painf...