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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...

Shellyne Rodriguez vandalized a pro-life display on May 2 that was sponsored by Students for Life of America. / YouTube/Students For Life May 18, 2023, YouTube/Whitney Museum of American Art Feb 28, 2018Boston, Mass., May 23, 2023 / 14:29 pm (CNA).A professor at Hunter College in New York City who vandalized a pro-life display on May 2 that was sponsored by Students for Life of America has been fired.The new development comes the same day that the New York Post reported that the same professor, ...

Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, Ill., mother church of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Credit: Edlane De Mattos/Shutterstock. / nullCNA Newsroom, May 23, 2023 / 15:27 pm (CNA).A report published by the Illinois attorney generals office alleges that 451 Catholic clerics and religious brothers sexually abused 1,997 victims within the states Catholic dioceses over a 70-year period. The report, published May 23, unveils a comprehensive list of "substantiated child sex abuse" allegati...

Null / Credit: Pixabay (Public Domain)ACI Prensa Staff, May 22, 2023 / 15:45 pm (CNA).In the midst of allegations of sexual abuse against Jesuit priests in Bolivia, a Carmelite priest was arrested recently by the authorities, and accusations against another Carmelite and a Franciscan have come to light.In a statement to the Bolivian newspaper Página Siete, a former seminarian of the Carmelite order reported in 2014 that he was sexually abused by Father Milton Murillo when the priest was the adm...

Null / Todd Ruth on Unsplash.Washington D.C., May 22, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA).A Massachusetts government agency is asking lawmakers to review the states child abuse laws to ensure they apply to parents who wont let their children transition from one gender to another.The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth cited a purported rise in transphobia as a reason to amend the states child abuse laws. The commission is an official state agency that provides recommendations to lawmakers. "With...

St. Peters Square was illuminated by candlelight the night of Saturday, May 20, 2023, as pilgrims prayed the rosary in a procession in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNARome Newsroom, May 22, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).St. Peters Square was illuminated by candlelight Saturday night as pilgrims prayed the rosary in a procession in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary.The rosary procession was part of a Vatican initiative for the month of May, a special time of devotion in the C...

Null / Credit: Pixabay / Public domainACI Prensa Staff, May 22, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Nicaraguan Catholics living in exile dedicated to the defense of human rights charged that the supposed "voluntary dissolution" of Immaculate Conception Catholic University, which trained seminarians in Managua, is "one more hostile action" of the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, against the Catholic Church.On May 18, the Nicaraguan Minist...