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Rony Roller Circus. / Paolo Macorig via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).Rome, Italy, Feb 11, 2023 / 03:42 am (CNA).The Vaticans charity office has invited around 2,000 poor and marginalized people to a circus performance in Rome on Saturday."Making it possible to participate in this performance is a way to give a few hours of contentment to those who are confronted with a hard life and need help to nurture hope," Pope Francis almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, said this week in an announceme...

Archbishop-designate Frank Leo of Toronto. / Archdiocese of TorontoVatican City, Feb 11, 2023 / 09:10 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Saturday appointed Bishop Francis (Frank) Leo to lead the Archdiocese of Toronto, Canadas largest Catholic diocese.Leo has been an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Montréal, Québec, since September 2022. He also served in various diplomatic posts for the Vatican from 2008-2012.The archbishop-designate succeeds Cardinal Thomas Collins, who has led the Toronto arch...

Null / Liderina / Shutterstock.Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 9, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA).A little more than a third of Catholic parents say it is extremely or very important for their children to grow up to have religious beliefs similar to their own, according to a recent Pew Research Center report.In the study released last month and expounded further in a Feb. 6 article, 35% of Catholic parents with children under 18 said it is extremely or very important for their children to grow up to share ...

Former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Nicole Parker (left) testifies during the first hearing of the Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Feb. 9, 2023, in Washington, D.C. / Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesWashington D.C., Feb 9, 2023 / 16:05 pm (CNA).A former FBI agent told members of the new House panel investigating the abuse of federal power that she left the agency after she believes it became "politic...

Null / Africa Studio / ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Feb 9, 2023 / 12:27 pm (CNA).The Church of Englands governing body has voted to bless same-sex couples while leaving unchanged the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman in a move that could nonetheless have global consequences for Christian unity."For the first time, the Church of England will publicly, unreservedly, and joyfully welcome same-sex couples in church," Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbi...

Null / Credit: Dzelat/ShutterstockWashington D.C., Feb 9, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA).The FBI says it is retracting a leaked document published on the internet Feb. 8 that appears to reveal that the bureaus Richmond division launched an investigation into "radical traditionalist" Catholics and their possible ties to "the far-right white nationalist movement." In response to an inquiry from CNA, the FBI said it will remove the document because "it does not meet our exactin...

Nicaraguan political prisoner Juan Sebastian Chamorro speaks to the press ouside a hotel in Herndon, Virginia, on Feb. 9, 2023, after he was released by the Nicaraguan government. / Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 9, 2023 / 14:24 pm (CNA).The dictatorship of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega deported 222 political prisoners to Washington, D.C., Thursday, including recently jailed priests and seminarians. A Nicaraguan appeals court claim...

Greek Catholic priest Father Fadi Najjar, who serves in Aleppo, Syria, appealed for prayers as his community faced the death and devastation after an earthquake struck Syria and Turkey on Feb. 6, 2023. / Credit: AVANACI Prensa Staff, Feb 10, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA).Greek Catholic priest Father Fadi Najjar, who serves in Aleppo, Syria, related how he and his community have faced the death and devastation caused by the earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey on Feb. 6.The priest explained that since...

Four cardinals, 45 bishops, and 80 priests concelebrated Mass Feb. 8, 2023, under the high vaulted ceiling of Pragues St. Vitus Cathedral with about 500 people in attendance. The Mass marked the midway point of the European Continental Assembly meeting in Prague Feb. 5-12, 2023. / Credit: Lucie Horníková, Clovek a VíraPrague, Czech Republic, Feb 9, 2023 / 09:15 am (CNA).The chief organizer of the Catholic Churchs Synod on Synodality said Wednesday night that the global synod process is meant ...

Null / Africa Studio / ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Feb 9, 2023 / 12:27 pm (CNA).The Church of Englands governing body has voted to bless same-sex couples while leaving unchanged the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman in a move that could nonetheless have global consequences for Christian unity."For the first time, the Church of England will publicly, unreservedly, and joyfully welcome same-sex couples in church," Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbi...