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A man places his hands on the glass urn holding the remains of St. Pio in Pietrelcina, Italy, in 2016. St. Pio was found to be in a state of partial deterioration and partial preservation when his coffin was opened in 2008, but experts present at the exhumation have said there was no supernatural quality to what was preserved. Artificial preservation techniques have since been applied to conserve his body from further deterioration and a lifelike mask has been placed over his skull. / Ivan Roman...

Null / Shutterstock.CNA Newsroom, May 25, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA).South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill Thursday prohibiting abortion after six weeks of pregnancy that goes into effect immediately.The Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act, passed the Republican-controlled Senate Tuesday in a 27-19 vote, a week after the House passed the bill. The new law includes exceptions for rape and incest, the life of the mother, and fetal abnormalities up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. ...

Null / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 25, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).A Catholic bishop and Alliance Defending Freedom have criticized the 2022 ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) on the Pavez Pavez vs. Chile case for proposing controversial nondiscrimination "training" regarding sexual orientation that could threaten the countrys religious denominations.The court gave Chile, and indirectly the Church, two years to comply.ACI Prensa, CNAs Spanish-language ne...

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...

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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...