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St. Anne's Gate / Wikimapia.orgCNA Newsroom, May 18, 2023 / 15:13 pm (CNA).An unidentified man is in custody after driving a car at high speed through a gate at the Vatican Thursday, the Holy See press office said.A guard stationed at the Santa Anna entrance fired his weapon in the direction of the vehicles front tires, hitting the left front fender, but the vehicle proceeded onto the Vatican grounds until the driver got out at the San Damaso Courtyard, the main courtyard of the Apostolic P...

Map of the four routes that will make up the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in summer 2024. / Image courtesy of National Eucharistic CongressWashington D.C., May 18, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA).This past Wednesday, the executive team for the National Eucharistic Congress announced it will be launching a National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in the summer of 2024. The pilgrimage will consist of four cross-country eucharistic processions, collectively traversing the entire continental United States over a tw...

After receiving criticism a Manhattan Catholic church has changed the name of an art display from the title "God is Trans: A Queer Spiritual Journey" to "A Queer Spiritual Journey." / CNA/Beyond My Ken|Wikipedia|GFDLBoston, Mass., May 18, 2023 / 14:51 pm (CNA).Following concerns expressed by the Archdiocese of New York, a Manhattan Catholic church has changed the name of an art display from "God Is Trans: A Queer Spiritual Journey" to "A Queer Spiritual Journey...

Universidad Católica Inmaculada Concepción of the Archdiocese of Managua (UCICAM). / Credit: UCICAM official websiteACI Prensa Staff, May 18, 2023 / 15:45 pm (CNA).The Nicaraguan Ministry of the Interior (Migob) announced in official media the "voluntary dissolution" of the Immaculate Conception Catholic University of the Archdiocese of Managua (UCICAM), which functioned as a formation center for seminarians from the Nicaraguan capital.According to ministerial agreement 77-2023-OSFL,...

A view of Vatican City State - / vaticanstate.vaRome Newsroom, May 19, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).A Vatican magistrate has sentenced the unidentified man who forcibly entered Vatican City on Thursday night to mandatory psychiatric treatment, according to the Holy See press office.The man was taken into Vatican custody on the night of May 18 after driving a car at high speed through a gate at the Vatican, bypassing the checkpoints of both the Swiss Guard and Gendarmes.After being questioned in the pre...

A drag performer dresses up as a Catholic religious sister and dances provocatively on stage while wearing a gay pride flag. / rYN/YouTube Nov 8, 2018Boston, Mass., May 19, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA).A small group of students who protested an annual drag show at the Catholic Loyola University Chicago told CNA that a group of counterprotesters destroyed their signs, disparaged their faith, and later threatened them with violence on social media. Rising juniors Emily Torres and Matthew McKenna res...

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Staff at a new facility in the Archdiocese of Bogotá, Colombia, that helps people recover from drug addiction. / Credit: Courtesy photoACI Prensa Staff, May 18, 2023 / 12:45 pm (CNA).The Church in Bergamo, Italy, and Bogotá, Colombia, have recently joined together through two Catholic foundations to help people who have fallen into drug addiction to recover.The Santina Foundation, directed by Msgr. Luigi Ginami, a priest of the Diocese of Bergamo, and the Domus Colombia Foundation, part of the...

Null / SiljeAO/ShutterstockDenver, Colo., May 16, 2023 / 14:10 pm (CNA).Federal regulators with the Food and Drug Administration should reject proposed over-the-counter use of the progestin-only "minipill" contraceptive, the U.S. bishops have said. They echo other critics who say the drugs side effects mean patients should have physician supervision while taking the drug."It is concerning that the FDA has a recommendation before it to approve over-the-counter hormonal contraceptio...