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Null / Credit: Vlad Vasnetsov/pixabayACI Prensa Staff, Feb 27, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA).Speaking with ACI Prensa, CNAs Spanish-language news partner, Father Kirill Gorbunov, who is also vicar general of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of the Mother of God at Moscow, said that "the majority of the people are suffering" and that "after a year of war [with Ukraine], there is no foreseeable solution.""It seems that the only proposed solution is to make the conflict even worse,&q...

Null / ShutterstockSt. Louis, Mo., Feb 27, 2023 / 14:32 pm (CNA).Amid at least two official investigations into a childrens transgender clinic run by Washington University in St. Louis, the clinic says it will not impose a moratorium on the prescription of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to any new patients. This comes despite a whistleblowers sworn statement that she witnessed doctors at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Childrens Hospital...

Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives outside Massachusetts' Dedham District Courthouse for his arraignment on Sept. 3, 2021. / Andrew Bukuras/CNABoston, Mass., Feb 27, 2023 / 16:57 pm (CNA).Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, 92, filed a motion in a Massachusetts court claiming he is "legally incompetent" to stand trial for sex abuse charges, citing "significant, worsening, and irreversible dementia."McCarrick is charged with three counts of indecent assault and ba...

Minister of the Interior of Spain Fernando Grande-Marlaska. / Credit: Spain Ministry of the InteriorACI Prensa Staff, Feb 27, 2023 / 11:25 am (CNA).The Observatory for Religious and Conscience Freedom (OLRC) has reproached the Spanish government for its "silence and inaction" in the face of a jihadist attack perpetrated last month in Algeciras, a town on the southern end of the Iberian peninsula near the Strait of Gibraltar.The president of the OLRC, María García, sent a letter to th...

Null / Credit: Günther Simmermacher/pixabayACI Prensa Staff, Feb 27, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA).One year from the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine, a Catholic priest recounted how a Ukrainian soldier was spared from being killed by praying the rosary.In an interview with ACI Prensa, CNAs Spanish-language news partner, Father Josafat Boyko, a member of the Institute of the Incarnate Word and pastor of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Parish in Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine, explained that par...

Students at Precious Blood School, located a few miles west of downtown Los Angeles. Precious Blood is one of three new inner-city "microschools" trying a fresh approach to Catholic education. / Photo by Victor Alemán/Angelus NewsLos Angeles, Calif., Feb 26, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).When Maria Guillermo first heard about the plan to turn Precious Blood School into a "microschool," with enrollment capped at around 100, she worried that it was the schools last gasp and that her d...

Pope Francis greets the crowd at his Sunday Angelus address on Jan. 29, 2023. / Vatican MediaVatican City, Feb 26, 2023 / 06:15 am (CNA).On the first Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis warned of three "widespread and dangerous temptations" that the devil uses to separate us from God and divide us from each other.In his Angelus address on Feb. 26, the pope said that the devil uses three "powerful poisons" to attack and divide Christian communities: attachment to material things, mis...

By Zaitsava Olga via Shutterstock. / nullWashington D.C., Feb 24, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).A local Democratic official in Framingham, Massachusetts, is facing backlash after comments he made at a city council meeting in which he said he feared disabled children place an undue burden on local taxpayers if their parents do not abort them. Michael Hugo, who serves as the chairman for the Framingham Democratic Committee and as the director of policy and government relations for the Massachusetts Associ...

The Knights of Columbus film "In Solidarity with Ukraine" will have a six-week run on ABC-affiliated stations starting Feb. 26. / YouTube/Knights of Columbus Supreme CouncilBoston, Mass., Feb 25, 2023 / 05:00 am (CNA).Husbands have been separated from their wives; children separated from their parents, and thousands of civilians have been killed since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago.In the trailer for the Knights of Columbus new film, "In Solidarity with Ukraine," Natalia L...

Harrison Butker, an NFL kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, is an altar server at Traditional Latin Masses. / Screenshot from EWTN YouTube videoCNA Newsroom, Feb 25, 2023 / 07:02 am (CNA).Even though Harrison Butker kicked the winning field goal in what he described as "one of the best Super Bowls ever played," football doesnt define the Kansas City Chiefs players life. "I want to be a saint. And thats the most important thing, and thats why Im here on this earth," Butker...