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Null / Image credit: ADragan/ShutterstockCNA Newsroom, Mar 20, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).The U.S. Catholic bishops released a statement Monday offering moral guidance for Catholic health care institutions, reiterating that "gender transition" interventions are not to be performed because they do not respect the fact that God has created each person as a unity of body and soul. "The body is not an object, a mere tool at the disposal of the soul, one that each person may ...

Null / Minerva Studio/ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Mar 21, 2023 / 08:56 am (CNA).The Catholic Diocese of Oakland is considering filing for bankruptcy as it prepares to respond to hundreds of lawsuits concerning decades-old sex abuse incidents in what the local bishop called a "monumental challenge.""Since the closing of the filing window on Dec. 31, 2022, we have been informed there may be approximately 330 lawsuits filed against our diocese," Bishop Michael Barber, SJ, said in...

Null / Credit: UnsplashWashington D.C., Mar 20, 2023 / 12:52 pm (CNA).Since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade in June 2022, the abortion battle has moved to the states.Now that abortion is no longer considered a federally guaranteed constitutional right, individual states are allowed to determine their abortion policies. This means that each state legislature has a renewed importance when it comes to the abortion fight.While 13 states have passed total abortion bans, many states have moved ...

CompassCare Pregnancy Services, which had its facility outside of Buffalo burned down last summer, was attacked again with pro-abortion graffiti. / CompassCare Pregnancy ServicesBoston, Mass., Mar 20, 2023 / 12:35 pm (CNA).A New York pro-life pregnancy center that was seriously damaged in an arson attack in June 2022 was vandalized again Thursday with pro-abortion graffiti. The destruction of property at CompassCare Pregnancy Services in Amherst, New York, is the latest in a wave of attack...

Null / Credit: Father Luis Ángel Espinosa, LC/CathopicACI Prensa Staff, Mar 19, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).In 2023 the Legionaries of Christ religious order will provide 32 new priests for service to the Church. Twenty-nine of them will be ordained in Rome in the papal basilica of St. Mary Major on April 29 by Cardinal Fernando Vérguez, president of the Governorate of the State of Vatican City.The other three will receive priestly ordination at different times of the year.The soon-to-be new priests...

Pope Francis speaks during his Angelus address on March 19, 2023. / Vatican MediaVatican City, Mar 19, 2023 / 07:51 am (CNA).We should treat the physical and social differences of others as a chance to love, not as an inconvenience, Pope Francis said in his Angelus address on Sunday.The popes weekly message focused on the days Gospel reading, which recounts Jesus miraculous healing of the blind man.Francis pointed out the reactions of the different characters in the story and invited people to r...

German Cardinal Gerhard Müller (left) and American Cardinal Raymond Burke. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAWashington D.C., Mar 17, 2023 / 13:09 pm (CNA).A synod of German bishops overwhelmingly approved Church blessings of same-sex unions and unions between divorced and remarried Catholics, but the move has faced harsh criticism from some members of the Catholic hierarchy who have accused the German bishops of abandoning the faith. German Cardinal Gerhard Müller and American Cardi...

Ian Dinkla, 21, and Bryn Taylor, 26, abortion activists and students at the University of Florida are arrested by university police. / Created EqualWashington D.C., Mar 17, 2023 / 16:20 pm (CNA).Two pro-abortion activists were caught on video stealing pro-life signs and then violently resisting arrest on March 10 at the University of Florida in Gainesville.The activists, identified by the police as Ian Dinkla, 21, and Bryn Taylor, 26, were arrested by officers from the University of Florida Poli...

The image of the Virgin of Ireland in the Cathedral of Gyor, Hungary. / Credit: Diocese of GyorACI Prensa Staff, Mar 17, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).On March 17, 1697, on the feast day of St. Patrick and in the same year penal laws were enacted in Ireland banning Catholic bishops and priests from the country, an image of the Virgin Mary known as the Weeping Irish Madonna shed tears of blood for three hours.The painting is now kept in the cathedral of Gyor, Hungary, where it was taken by the bishop of ...

Pope Francis heard confessions at a parish in Rome on Friday, March 17, 2023, and encouraged people to remember that God "holds out his hand and lifts us up whenever we realize that we are hitting rock bottom." / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNARome Newsroom, Mar 17, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA).Pope Francis heard confessions at a parish in Rome on Friday and encouraged people to remember that God "holds out his hand and lifts us up whenever we realize that we are hitting rock bottom."In ...