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Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA / nullDenver, Colo., May 25, 2023 / 14:55 pm (CNA).Three former students at a Massachusetts Catholic high school have filed a lawsuit against Bostons Cardinal Sean OMalley and other Church leaders because of alleged abuse committed by the schools vice principal.Attorney Mitchell Garabedian on Monday announced that he had filed a May 5 lawsuit in Suffolk County Superior Court on behalf of three former students at Arlington Catholic H...

An all-Ireland pro-life rally in Dublin. / William Murphy/infomatique via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).Rome Newsroom, May 25, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA).Five years after Irish voters rejected the constitutional amendment that protected "the right to life of the unborn," more than 28,800 abortions have occurred in Ireland since the referendum came into effect.Irish Sen. Rónán Mullen called losing Irelands pro-life Eighth Amendment in the referendum vote on May 25, 2018, "the most tragic mome...

St. Philip Neri in levitation, fresco by unknown (1600 ca.) from Vallicella rooms of the saint, Chiesa Nuova, Rome. / Credit: Francesco Cantone/ShutterstockRome, Italy, May 26, 2023 / 01:00 am (CNA).On the via Appia Antica, beyond the Aurelian walls, sits the ancient basilica of San Sebastiano fuori le Mura. It is one of the most important churches in Rome, not only because it is one of the seven pilgrimage churches of Rome, but also because it is where the remains of Sts. Peter and Paul were ta...

Pope Francis at the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square on May 24, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, May 26, 2023 / 07:07 am (CNA).Pope Francis canceled meetings on Friday morning due to a fever, a Vatican spokesman confirmed.Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, told CNA that "due to a feverish condition, Pope Francis did not receive [anyone] in audience this morning."As of Friday afternoon, the pope does not have any public appointments schedule...

Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, whose body was discovered apparently incorrupt, founded the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles. / Courtesy of the Benedictines of MaryDenver, Colo., May 24, 2023 / 15:45 pm (CNA).When the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles exhumed the body of their foundress Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, on May 18, they found the unexpected: Four years after her death and burial in a simple wooden coffin, her body appeared remarkably well preserved.The ne...

A few hundred Catholics marched through the streets of Washington, D.C., to publicly pray and adore the body of Christ during a eucharistic procession on Saturday, May 20, 2023. / Credit: Joe Portolano/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 24, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA).A few hundred Catholics marched through the streets of Washington, D.C., to publicly pray and adore the body of Christ during a eucharistic procession on Saturday, May 20, two days after the solemnity of the Ascension. The procession...

The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. / Credit: Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity Discalced Carmelite NunsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 24, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA).A Carmelite nun who accused the Diocese of Fort Worth and Bishop Michael Olson of violating both civil law and canon law is now appealing to the Vatican after the bishop refused to let her choose her own canon lawyer for representation in a diocesan investigati...

Pope Francis delivers his Regina Caeli address on May 21, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 25, 2023 / 08:07 am (CNA).Pope Francis has emphasized the importance of the virtue of justice in a message for the upcoming World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation."God wants justice to reign; it is as essential to our life as Gods children, made in his likeness, as water is essential for our physical survival," he said in the message, released May 25."God wants everyone to striv...

Archbishop Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez at a press conference on May 21, 2023. / Credit: Video capture/Archdiocese of DurangoACI Prensa Staff, May 23, 2023 / 15:40 pm (CNA).An 80-year-old man wielding a knife tried to kill Archbishop Faustino Armendáriz of Durango, Mexico, on May 21. The attack took place in the cathedral sacristy after the Sunday noon Mass.The man was later arrested by municipal authorities.After the failed murder attempt, Armendáriz on Twitter thanked "God, the Most Ho...

Vatican's top abuse investigator Maltese archbishop Charles Scicluna (right) and fellow papal envoy Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu give a press conference at the Apostolic Nunciature in Santiago, Chile, on June 19, 2018. / Claudio Reyes/AFP via Getty ImagesACI Prensa Staff, May 23, 2023 / 15:01 pm (CNA).In the wake of a new wave of scandals due to allegations of sexual abuse of minors committed by members of various religious orders in the country, the Bolivian Bishops Conference has announced th...