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Null / Credit: Chodyra Mike 1/Shutterstock.CNA Staff, May 4, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).A federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that The Satanic Temple must be allowed to hold its "After School Satan Club" in a public middle school in Pennsylvanias Saucon Valley School District.U.S. District Court Judge John Gallagher, sitting in Allentown, issued the preliminary injunction just days after The Satanic Temple held its second annual conference called "SatanCon" in Boston, which wa...

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Jimmy Lai at a Hong Kong protest / Courtesy of the Acton InstituteWashington D.C., May 5, 2023 / 08:20 am (CNA).A new film about Hong Kong media mogul turned pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai has amassed more than 1 million views on YouTube and over 4 million views on TikTok in just two weeks.Interweaving historic footage, video of mass protests and arrests, and interviews with Lai and those who know him well, "The Hong Konger: Jimmy Lais Extraordinary Struggle for Freedom" is a 73-minu...

Pope Francis meets with the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in an audience May 5, 2023. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 5, 2023 / 09:15 am (CNA).Pope Francis invited the Vaticans child protection commission to have "a spirituality of reparation" toward victims of clergy sexual abuse and to examine where the Church has committed "sins of omission" in this area."The sexual abuse of minors by clergy and its poor handling by Church leaders has be...

Bishop Robert Francis Prevost was named prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops on Jan. 30, 2023. / Credit: Frayjhonattan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsVatican City, May 5, 2023 / 07:50 am (CNA).A bishop should nurture closeness to Christ, share the beauty of the faith, use social media wisely, and have a universal vision, the new head of the Vaticans Dicastery for Bishops shared this week.Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost, who took up his new role in April, spoke to Vatican News abou...

Photograph of a girl at the border with Ukraine, part of the "Womens Cry" photo exposition at the Vatican during the month of May 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI PrensaACI Prensa Staff, May 3, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).A photo exhibition titled "Womens Cry" will be on display during the month of May in St. Peters Square. It seeks to give a voice to the suffering and injustices endured by women around the world.On several occasions Pope Francis has recalled the intention of th...

Pope Francis greets His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Wales at the canonization of St. John Henry Newman at the Vatican on Oct. 13, 2019. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 4, 2023 / 03:04 am (CNA).The Vaticans secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will represent Pope Francis at the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday, May 6.Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni announced Parolins attendance at the ceremony on Thursday.Parolin will be in attendance with other high-ranking guests, includ...

Newspaper publisher and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai poses during an interview in Hong Kong in 2020. / Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 4, 2023 / 00:01 am (CNA).Following public outcry over its apparent censorship of a new documentary about imprisoned Catholic Hong Kong pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, TikTok has reversed its suspension of the account belonging to the films producer, the Michigan-based Acton Institute.A spokesperson for the social media gia...

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley preaching during Mass in the cathedral in 2021. / Archdiocese of Oklahoma CitySt. Louis, Mo., May 4, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City in an interview this week called for responding to those experiencing gender dysphoria with empathy but without compromising on the reality of Gods creation of humanity as male and female. "We can show love and compassion and concern as a parent, as a pastor, as a friend, without jettisoning our co...

A screenshot from Pope Francis' May 4 video message to young people attending World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 4, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).Pope Francis has sent a video message to the teens and young adults preparing to attend World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, in August."Ill see you in Lisbon," he said, according to an English translation of the message, delivered in Spanish. The message was published on the Vaticans YouTube page on May 4...