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On April 1, 2023, a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe was vandalized at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Corona, California. / Courtesy of the Diocese of San BernardinoCNA Newsroom, Apr 6, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).A statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe was smashed in half at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Corona, California, on April 1. "It was very heartbreaking, especially coming at the beginning of Holy Week," Maria Bravo, the parish office manager, told CNA in a statement Thursday.&...

Surveillance footage shows suspects spray-painting pro-abortion slogans on the exterior of South Broward Pregnancy Help Center, a pro-life clinic in Hollywood, Florida, on May 28, 2022. / Screenshot from Archdiocese of Miami Vimeo videoBoston, Mass., Apr 4, 2023 / 16:42 pm (CNA).Two more individuals have been indicted for violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE), in connection with a string of pro-abortion attacks against pro-life pregnancy centers in Florida. ...

Pope Francis greets pilgrims from the pope mobile in St. Peters Square on April 5, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNAVatican City, Apr 5, 2023 / 09:53 am (CNA).Pope Francis has offered advice for how to have a fruitful Holy Week, urging people to focus on the essentials and look to the cross as the source of hope.In his last public audience Wednesday before the start of the Paschal Triduum, the pope noted how many people today who walk down the street appear sad, focused "only on their cell phones, ...

Cornell University in Ithaca, New York / Dantes De MonteCristo|Wikipedia|CC BY-SA 4.0Denver, Colo., Apr 5, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA).Citing the need for the free exchange of ideas, the leaders of Cornell University have rejected a student resolution advocating that the university mandate "content warnings for traumatic content in the classroom." "We cannot accept this resolution, as the actions it recommends would infringe on our core commitment to academic freedom and freedom of inqu...

A roll of I Voted stickers. / PhilipR / ShutterstockSt. Louis, Mo., Apr 5, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz, who garnered numerous endorsements and campaign funding from pro-abortion organizations during a contentious race for a seat on Wisconsins Supreme Court, emerged as the victor Tuesday night in what proved to be the most expensive state Supreme Court race in history. The 2023 Wisconsin judicial race, which might have remained obscure in other years even ...

Bishop Erik Varden spoke to CNA about the role of a bishop, and why the Nordic bishops conference chose to publish a letter on sexuality and transgenderism at this time. / Pål JohannesVatican City, Apr 5, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).In March, the bishops of the five Nordic countries issued a pastoral letter affirming the Catholic Churchs teaching on human sexuality."This covenantal sign, the rainbow, is claimed in our time as the symbol of a movement that is at once political and cultural,"...

Pope Francis delivers his Angelus reflection from the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on March 26, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Apr 5, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Wednesday revised parts of the penal law of the Eastern Catholic Churches.The changes follow the 2021 reform of Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, which covers penal law in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.The April 5 motu proprio on the law of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Vocare Peccatores, takes effect June 29...

St. Paulinus Catholic Church was vandalized sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning prior to Palm Sunday liturgy 2023. / Father Ryan SalisburyBoston, Mass., Apr 3, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).The pastor of a Catholic church in Syracuse, Nebraska, was shocked when he discovered Saturday morning that the altar had been tipped over, a statue desecrated, and several other objects damaged. "Somehow, in the Lords providence, this was allowed," Father Ryan Salisbury, pastor of St. P...

As Holy Week 2023 processions began in Spain, three wooden carvings of the Virgin Mary were damaged by fire in three separate incidents. / Credit: Brotherhood of Holy Tuesday (Chiclana), Brotherhood of the Virgen del Rocío (Vélez), and Virgen de Gracia Parish (Almadén)ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 3, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).As Holy Week processions began in Spain, three wooden carvings of the Virgin Mary were damaged by fire in three separate incidents. The cause of each of the fires appears to be acci...

Archbishop Michael O. Jackels speaks to McConnell AFB airmen at the 2013 McConnell National Prayer Breakfast March 7, 2013, at the McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. / Katrina M. Brisbin/U.S. Air ForceVatican City, Apr 4, 2023 / 05:00 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Archbishop Michael O. Jackels from the pastoral government of the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa.An April 4 statement from the United States bishops conference said Jackels resignation was for health reasons...