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Pope Francis spoke to participants in a Feb. 16-18, 2023, conference on how pastors and laypeople can work together better / Vatican MediaVatican City, Feb 18, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA).The Church is a home which priests and laypeople need to care for together, Pope Francis said on Saturday."It is time for pastors and laypeople to walk together, in every area of the Churchs life, in every part of the world," he said in the Vaticans New Synod Hall on Feb. 18."The lay faithful are not g...

Null / Ink Drop/ShutterstockCNA Newsroom, Feb 17, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA).After its passage in the Senate, Spains lower house passed the Law for the Real and Effective Equality of Trans Persons and for the Guarantee of LGTBI Rights, which will allow transgender genital surgery and hormonal treatments from the age of 16 without parental consent.Known simply as the Trans Law, it was pushed by the socialist-communist ruling coalition with the backing of LGTBI pressure groups (lesbians, gays, transsex...

Father Norberto Pozzi. / Credit: ACNACI Africa, Feb 16, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA).An Italian-born Catholic priest has undergone numerous grueling surgeries, eventually losing his foot, after he sustained injuries in a land mine explosion in the Central African Republic (CAR).The Catholic pontifical and charity foundation Aid to the Church in Need International (ACN) reported that Father Norberto Pozzi, a 71-year-old member of the Discalced Carmelite Fathers, was injured when the car he was traveling...

In an interview with ACN, Clement Usoo, 65, described witnessing the massacre of members of his family at the hands of Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria. / Aid to the Church in Need-USAWashington D.C., Feb 16, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA).Clement Usoo, a 65-year-old Christian Nigerian farmer whose family was massacred by Fulani herdsmen in 2019, shared his story in a testimony published Wednesday by Aid to the Church in Need-USA (ACN). Usoo described what transpired on June 1, 2019, in an inter...

The procession from St. Anselm parish to Santa Sabina preceding Mass for Ash Wednesday in Rome, March 6, 2019. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA.Vatican City, Feb 17, 2023 / 04:30 am (CNA).In his message for Lent 2023, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to listen to what Jesus wants to tell them through the Scriptures and through others.Using the story of Jesus Transfiguration as a launching point, Francis addressed both the journey of Lent and the Catholic Churchs ongoing Synod on Synodality in the message re...

Gene editing in vitro genetic CRISPR genome engineering medical biotechnology health care concept with a fertilized human egg embryo and a group of dividing cells as a 3D illustration. Via Shutterstoc / nullWashington D.C., Feb 17, 2023 / 08:07 am (CNA).A significant minority of Americans would favor genetic screening of embryos simply to boost their childs chance to attend an elite university, a new survey indicates.Several bioethics experts and economists designed the survey to explore public ...

Pope Francis met with bishops, priests, and religious in St. Theresa Cathedral in Juba, South Sudan, on Feb. 4, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Feb 16, 2023 / 08:34 am (CNA).Pope Francis addressed once again the question of whether he will resign the papacy in two conversations with Jesuit priests in Africa this month."I believe that the popes ministry is ad vitam. I see no reason why it should not be so," the pope said Feb. 2 during a private conversation with 82 Jesuits in the De...

Quebec Cardinal Gérald Lacroix speaks at the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 7, 2021. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.Rome Newsroom, Feb 14, 2023 / 11:45 am (CNA).The Catholic cardinal of Quebec said Tuesday that pastors are to be shepherds who help their people grow in a relationship with Jesus Christ, not "the boss" or manager of laypeople.Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix spoke at a Feb. 14 press conference previewing a three-day Vatican meeting on how to improv...

Null / K I Photography/ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Feb 14, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA).Pro-life advocates who visited the National Archives Museum last month have filed a lawsuit charging that staff at the museum told them to remove any pro-life clothing or leave."All of our clients were told by National Archives employees that they had to take off their religious, pro-life apparel or leave the museum," Jordan Sekulow, an attorney and executive director of the American Center for Law and Just...

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, is monitored by police in early August 2022. / Photo credit: Diocese of MatagalpaDenver, Colo., Feb 14, 2023 / 16:52 pm (CNA).The U.S. government must seek the release of Nicaraguas Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos, sentenced to 26 years in prison for religious freedom advocacy. That is the urgent message from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)."We are appalled that Bishop Álvarez will now serve 26 years in prison f...