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Pope Francis gives an extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica March 27, 2020. / Vatican Media.Rome Newsroom, Mar 27, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Wednesday will bless a satellite that will launch his words into space on June 10.The "Spes Satelles," Latin for "Satellites of Hope," will be launched on a rocket taking off from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.According to the Vatican, the miniaturized satellite will ...

Bishop Erik Varden O.C.S.O, of the Catholic Territorial Prelature of Trondheim, Norway, at the vespers at Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome. / Daniel Ibáñez / CNARome Newsroom, Mar 25, 2023 / 14:40 pm (CNA).Bishops from the five Nordic countries have released a letter on the traditional Christian teaching on sexuality, upholding the "embodied integrity of personhood" against modern transgender ideologies."Now, notions of what it is to be a human, and so a sexual being, are in ...

Pope Francis delivers his Angelus reflection from the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City on March 26, 2023. / Vatican MediaCNA Newsroom, Mar 26, 2023 / 08:01 am (CNA).On the fifth Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis challenged the faithful to do as they did when they were little children learning how to walk: letting God take them by the hand. That way, the pope assured, even when they fall or feel discouraged, they wont be alone. On the contrary, "it is precisely in these moments that He comes clos...

Damage from a series of powerful storms and at least one tornado is seen on March 25, 2023 in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. At least 26 people have reportedly been killed with dozens more injured following devastating storms across western Mississippi and Alabama on the night of March 24, 2023. / Will Newton/Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 26, 2023 / 07:20 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Sunday offered prayers for the victims of a deadly tornado that struck parts of Mississippi and Alabama Frid...

Null / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, Mar 26, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).Parents of students at a Marianist school in Spain expressed their "stark distrust" in the Marianists and in their sex ed program "Crea2 para amar" (Created to Love) after a tense meeting in which they were denied access to the materials being taught to their children.The event took place March 16 in the auditorium of Our Lady of the Pillar School in Madrid and was attended by a large representation of...

Null / Sidney de Almeida / ShutterstockWashington D.C., Mar 26, 2023 / 11:20 am (CNA).A local Connecticut television station is reporting that the Archdiocese of Hartford is investigating a possible Eucharistic miracle that may have taken place during the celebration of the Mass at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Thomaston.On March 5, 2023, at the conclusion of Mass, Father Joseph Crowley announced that a Eucharistic minister witnessed something unexplainable as he was distributing communion. &quo...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Republican House members introduce the "Parents Bill of Rights" Thursday, March 23, 2023. / Speaker Kevin McCarthyYouTube channelWashington D.C., Mar 24, 2023 / 16:42 pm (CNA).The Republican-controlled House of Representatives narrowly passed a "Parents Bill of Rights" designed to ensure that parents can have a stronger role in the public education system, which included last-minute amendments to bolster transparency on schools transgender policies....

Mother Angelica, foundress of EWTN. / EWTNDenver, Colo., Mar 25, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA).It is tradition for Catholics around the world to participate in the Stations of the Cross each Friday during Lent. However, for EWTN foundress Mother Angelica, it was a daily devotion. EWTN chaplain Father Joseph Mary Wolfe collected Mother Angelicas spiritual guidance that she shared with him into a book titled "Mother Angelicas The Way of the Cross," published by EWTN Publishing. In an i...

Pope Francis speaks at the general audience in Vatican City's Paul VI Hall on Feb. 22, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Mar 25, 2023 / 08:20 am (CNA).Pope Francis permanently decreed Saturday an updated version of Vos estis lux mundi, his landmark legislation to counter sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. The decree promulgated March 25 extends the Churchs norms for handling of abuse to cover lay leaders of international associations of the faithful recognized by the Vatican. ...

Bishop Franz Josef Bode of the Diocese of Osnabrück served as vice president of the German bishops' conference from 2017 to 2023. / Courtesy of Synodaler Weg/Maximilian von LachnerCNA Newsroom, Mar 25, 2023 / 08:56 am (CNA).Pope Francis accepted the resignation of a German bishop on Saturday who played a key role in the German Synodal Way and had come under pressure over his handling of clerical sexual abuse in his diocese. Bishop Franz Josef Bode had previously refused to s...