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Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peters Basilica, presides over a penitential rite on June 3, 2023, two days after a Polish man stripped naked and stood on the basilicas high altar. / Vatican MediaWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 3, 2023 / 08:04 am (CNA).Two days after a naked man stood on the high altar of St. Peters Basilica in a shocking security breach, the basilicas archpriest on Saturday held a penitential rite as required by canon law in cases where sacred places are desecrated.Va...

Pope Francis prays at his Wednesday audience in St. Peters Square on April 12, 2023. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNAVatican City, Jun 4, 2023 / 06:45 am (CNA).Pope Francis prayed Sunday for the victims of a train crash in India that killed at least 275 people."I am close to the injured and their families. May our heavenly Father welcome the souls of the deceased into his kingdom," he said in his Angelus address on June 4. Hundreds of people were injured in the crash in the Balasore district of O...

Sister Scholastica Radel (left) and Mother Abbess Cecilia Snell of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, discuss the recent exhumation of the order's foundress, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, in an interview with EWTN News In Depth on May 30, 2023, at their abbey in Gower, Missouri. / EWTN NewsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 4, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).Her flashlight was dim, so when Mother Abbess Cecilia Snell first peered inside the cracked coffin lid and saw a human foot inside a black ...

Pope Francis delivers his Angelus address on June 4, 2023. / Vatican MediaVatican City, Jun 4, 2023 / 06:05 am (CNA).Each time that a Catholic makes the sign of the cross, it is a reminder that God is a communion of love, Pope Francis said Sunday.Speaking on the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, the pope highlighted how the simple gesture that Catholics are taught as children is a sign of the central mystery of Christian faith. "By tracing the cross on our body, we remind ourselves how mu...

The "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" at an "LGBT pride" march in 1995. / Joe Mabel|Wikipedia|GFDLWashington D.C., Jun 2, 2023 / 16:20 pm (CNA).The Los Angeles Dodgers, it turns out, are not the first MLB team to find themselves in hot water over an invitation to the drag group calling itself the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence." Almost 28 years ago, the owner of the San Francisco Giants wrote a letter of apology to the Catholic League for hosting the drag gro...

Null / Credit: Emiliano Arruabarrena/CathopicACI Prensa Staff, Jun 2, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA).The Catholic Church in Spain on June 1 presented the report "To shed light," which tallies 927 complaints of alleged sexual abuse of minors under 18 years of age or vulnerable people that occurred from 1945 to 2022.The report does not include situations involving the abuse of conscience and power or committed against adults.The report was "prepared from the testimonies that have been collec...

The cross of the German "Synodal Way." / Maximilian von Lachner / Synodaler WegACI Prensa Staff, Jun 2, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA).Birgit Kelle, spokeswoman for the German lay group Neuer Anfang (New Beginning) in a May 29 interview with EWTN Noticias explained that its members reject the Synodal Path initiated by the Church in Germany because they want to "remain Catholic."This lay initiative was started two years ago, when the bishops and various lay leaders in Germany had alrea...

Flag of Mexico. / Credit: David Ramos/ACI PrensaACI Prensa Staff, Jun 3, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).Recent episodes of violence against the Catholic Church, including the murder of a priest and the attempted murder of an archbishop, once again bring to the fore the persecution of the faith in Mexico and the power of organized crime.On May 22, Augustinian priest Javier García Villafañe was found shot to death in his car on the Cuitzeo-Huandacareo highway. The Michoacán state attorney generals offic...

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peters Basilica, presides over a penitential rite on June 3, 2023, two days after a Polish man stripped naked and stood on the basilicas high altar. / Vatican MediaWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 3, 2023 / 08:04 am (CNA).Two days after a naked man stood on the high altar of St. Peters Basilica in a shocking security breach, the basilicas archpriest on Saturday reconsecrated the altar during a penitential rite as required by canon law in cases where sacre...

Cardinal Robert Sarah speaks with students and faculty at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas on May 25, 2023. / Credit: Benedicte Cedergren/AngelicumRome Newsroom, Jun 1, 2023 / 10:15 am (CNA).Cardinal Robert Sarah urged students studying at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas to ask in prayer for "an intimate and profound union with the Lord and with one another."Speaking at a Mass to mark the close of the academic year at the university in Rome known as the A...