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Pope Francis at his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square on March 15, 2023 / Daniel Ibanez/CNAVatican City, Mar 15, 2023 / 04:23 am (CNA).Pope Francis said Wednesday that everyone in the Church is equal in dignity, thus a focus on hierarchical advancement is "pure paganism.""Within the framework of the unity of the mission, the diversity of charisms and ministries must not give rise, within the ecclesial body, to privileged categories," the pope said at his M...

Sister María del Carmen, a Mexican Combonian missionary who served in Sudan. / Credit: Ana Paula Morales/ACI PrensaACI Prensa Staff, Mar 14, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA).Sister María del Carmen Galicia, a Mexican nun of the Comboni Missionary Sisters who worked in Sudan, an African country with a 97% Muslim population, stressed that "peaceful coexistence" is possible between the followers of Islam and Christianity.Speaking with ACI Prensa, CNAs Spanish-language news partner, the nun related...

Young pro-life people paint a mural with messages opposing surrogate motherhood in Mexico. / Courtesy: Steps for LifeACI Prensa Staff, Mar 14, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA).The Steps for Life platform in Mexico called for legislation against surrogate motherhood, known in Spanish as "rent-a-womb," as well as any other form of exploiting womens fertility.As part of its campaign to oppose surrogate motherhood, the Steps for Life platform is painting outdoor murals with messages such as "Wom...

Banner of the Yes to Life demonstration held in Madrid on March 12, 2023. / Credit: Nicolás de Cárdenas/ACI PrensaACI Prensa Staff, Mar 13, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).Thousands turned out for the Yes to Life march in Madrid, Spain, on Sunday, where the sponsoring organizations expressed their opposition to "all laws and practices that threaten life and human nature at any moment of its existence, as well as the businesses and ideologies that sustain them."The event was held this year some...

Joe Biden / lev radin/ShutterstockWashington D.C., Mar 13, 2023 / 17:05 pm (CNA).President Joe Biden criticized Floridas regulation of transgender medical care for children and ban on gender ideology in the classroom, calling the measures "close to sinful."Biden said in an interview with Daily Show guest host Kal Penn: "Whats going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful. I mean its just terrible what theyre doing."Although the president did not sp...

Null / ivanko80/ShutterstockWashington D.C., Mar 13, 2023 / 14:50 pm (CNA).The first hearing in what could be the most consequential abortion case since the overturning of Roe v. Wade is set for this Wednesday, March 15.The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM), along with several other medical organizations and doctors, is suing the Federal Drug Administration for its approval and expansion of the abortion drug mifepristone.On Jan. 3, the FDA changed its policy to allow pharmacies, such as CV...

Palazzo della Rovere, also called Palazzo dei Penitenzieri. / Credit: Lalula via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0Vatican City, Mar 14, 2023 / 12:12 pm (CNA).A Catholic order of knighthood has signed a leasing agreement that will allow a Four Seasons hotel to manage part of a historic building close to the Vatican.The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem signed an agreement with Fort Partners, a Miami-based development company, on March 10, according to a statement publishe...

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNARome Newsroom, Mar 14, 2023 / 08:54 am (CNA).The Vaticans foreign minister has said that the Vatican-China deal was "not the best deal possible" and that negotiations are underway to make the deal "work better."In an interview with Colm Flynn for EWTN News, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican secretary for Relations with States, said that Holy See diplomats are "negotiating improvements" to the Holy ...

Cathedral of St. Eugene in Santa Rosa, CA. / chrisw80/wikimedia. CC BY SA 4.0Denver, Colo., Mar 14, 2023 / 09:47 am (CNA).The Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa in northern California said on Monday that it will file for bankruptcy, citing the number of child sexual abuse lawsuits filed against it in the last three years. Many alleged abuse incidents are more than three decades old."While I have been anticipating this action for more than a full year, it is most distressing to have the duty of ...

Pope Francis at his general audience in Paul VI Hall on Feb. 15, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Mar 12, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).Pope Francis asked for prayers as he spoke about the future of the Church and his pontificate so far in an interview published in the early hours of Sunday.Speaking to the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, Francis declined to evaluate his pontificate so far, saying the Lord will judge his life one day based on whether he practiced the Corporal Works of Mercy as taug...