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Null / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 19, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).The archbishop of Portoviejo, Eduardo José Castillo Pino, asked the faithful to pray for the end of violence in Ecuador and expressed his solidarity with the victims and injured left by a shooting that occurred Thursday morning at a funeral home in Manta, a port city on the central coast."Once more, crime and terror again destroy the lives of so many people, and fill us all with fear and insecurity," the prelat...

Our Lady of All the Angels church, built by the Society of St. Pius X, in the Archdiocese of Puebla, Mexico. / Credit: David Ramos/ACI PrensaACI Prensa Staff, May 19, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA).With the construction of a new church called "Our Lady of All the Angels," the Archdiocese of Puebla in Mexico warned the faithful about the Lefebvrist "schismatic movement" of the Fraternity of St. Pius X, stressing that the sacraments their priests administer "are illicit."In a ...

The Vatican has withdrawn a commemorative stamp for the 2023 World Youth Day. / Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City StateDenver Newsroom, May 19, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).A Vatican-produced postage stamp to commemorate the upcoming World Youth Day 2023 in Portugal has been withdrawn after criticism over its use of a mid-20th-century monument that is controversial in some Portuguese circles.The stamp, created by the Vatican Philatelic Service and issued on May 16, shows Pope Francis...

Bishop Michael Olson. / Diocese of Ft. WorthWashington D.C., May 19, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA).Nuns from an Arlington, Texas, Carmelite monastery are suing the Diocese of Fort Worth and the bishop for $1 million for alleged violations of privacy and harming the physical and emotional well-being of the sisters. The lawsuit stems from interactions related to a diocesan investigation of the Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach. The diocese has said it was investigating "grave misconduct&...

Null / KREML, ShutterstockCNA Newsroom, May 19, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Four Catholic bishops from the U.S. and Japan called for G7 leaders to take action against nuclear weapons amid a "more dangerous" arms race and an escalated threat of nuclear war."We strongly urge world leaders at the G7 Summit to show by example how international leadership is ready, willing, and able to work with nuclear weapons and nonnuclear weapons states to ensure no country or city ever suffers the horro...

Canonization Mass for St. Artemide Zatti and St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini on Oct. 9, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, May 20, 2023 / 05:40 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Saturday approved the beatification of a young Italian priest martyred by Nazis during World War II, and advanced the beatification causes of eight other men and women.Father Giuseppe Beotti was one month shy of his 32nd birthday when he was shot by the Germans after refusing to leave his parish despite threats to his life....

Members of an Italian pro-life and pro-family organization marched in the "Demonstration for Life" May 20, 2023, with a banner saying "There's life in the mother's womb. Let's care for it. #stopabortion" / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, May 20, 2023 / 12:48 pm (CNA).Thousands of individuals, families, and young people braved the cool, rainy weather to march in Italys national "Demonstration for Life" in Rome on Saturday afternoon.The walk May 20 star...

Null / Torwaistudio, ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 20, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).In the developing sexual abuse of minors scandal involving Jesuits in Bolivia, a May 13 article in the Spanish newspaper El País implicated two other priests, Francesc Peris and Carlos Villamil, and also published the testimonies of eight alleged victims.The Jesuits asked the victims to make a formal complaint with the Society of Jesus and offered their assistance in filing a complaint with the public prosecutor.&n...

Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna, was made a cardinal during the consistory of Oct. 5, 2019. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA.Rome Newsroom, May 20, 2023 / 11:46 am (CNA).Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has been asked by Pope Francis to head a peace mission between Russia and Ukraine on behalf of the Vatican, the Holy See press office director said Saturday."The timing of such a mission, and its modes, are currently being studied," Matteo Bruni said in a brief statement to journalists May 2...

Statue of Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, Bosnia Herzegovina. / Gnuckx via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).Rome Newsroom, May 20, 2023 / 08:42 am (CNA).An institution has been formed in Rome to study alleged Marian apparitions and other supernatural phenomena in the Catholic Church.The International Observatory on Marian Apparitions and Mystical Phenomenon (OISA) was established in April and is part of the Pontifical International Marian Academy.The objective of the observatory is to research alleged Marian appar...