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Migrants in Mexico / Catholic Relief ServicesSt. Louis, Mo., Apr 14, 2023 / 12:45 pm (CNA).Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami recently criticized an immigration bill under consideration in Florida, saying it criminalizes "empathy" by making it a crime to transport undocumented migrants for any reason. The bill, SB1718/HB1617, provides for a third-degree felony for anyone who "[t]ransports into or within this state an individual whom the person knows, or reasonably should ...

In response to the long wait times to enter St. Peter's Basilica, those who wish to enter for Mass, confession, or adoration can now do so via a special "prayer entrance" immediately to the right of the barricades to enter through the metal detectors on the right side of the piazza. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNARome Newsroom, Apr 14, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA).With 100,000 people cramming into St. Peters Square on Easter Sunday, the lines to enter the Vatican basilica have returned to t...

Null / USCCBDenver, Colo., Apr 14, 2023 / 11:45 am (CNA).The need to rebuild trust in the wake of abuse scandals, the need to be inclusive and welcoming while faithful to Church teaching, and the need to approach the synodal process as "a missionary movement" were on the minds of American and Canadian Catholics who participated in the North American phase of the Catholic Churchs synodal process.Participants reflected on a working document provided by the Vatican and offered their contr...

Null / Credit: Chodyra Mike 1/Shutterstock.Washington D.C., Apr 13, 2023 / 11:20 am (CNA).The Biden administration plans to issue an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court allowed a Texas judges ruling to severely restrict abortion pill access. The appeals court Wednesday night temporarily suspended the judges ruling to invalidate the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. The decision will, however, leave in place restric...

Null / Video Creative/Shutterstock.Denver, Colo., Apr 14, 2023 / 11:12 am (CNA).The Canadian government has released new recommended standards and advice for medical doctors concerning physician-assisted suicide that critics say do nothing to protect vulnerable patients from premature death.The new guidelines allow for "virtual" physician-assisted suicide, advise doctors not to notify family members when a patient requests suicide, and require medical professionals who object to physic...

Former U.S. postal worker Gerald Groff believes his religious freedom was violated when he was reprimanded for refusing to work on Sundays. / First Liberty InstituteWashington D.C., Apr 12, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next Tuesday, April 18, in Groff v. Dejoy, a case involving a Christian former postal worker that has major implications for religious liberty rights in the U.S.What is the case about? In 2019, Gerald Groff resigned from his position with t...

Classroom in a Catholic school. / Wuttichai jantarak/ShutterstockSt. Louis, Mo., Apr 12, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).A statewide board in Oklahoma voted Tuesday to reject a proposal brought by the Oklahoma Catholic Conference to create a virtual, religious charter school, which would be the first of its kind in the nation if it is ultimately approved. The Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted unanimously on Tuesday to disapprove an application, first presented in February, to crea...

Null / Pexels|Photo by Vidal Balielo Jr.Washington D.C., Apr 12, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA).Legal abortions in the United States decreased by more than 6% in the first six months that followed the U.S. Supreme Courts decision overturning the nearly 50 years of abortion precedent set in Roe v. Wade, according to a report from the pro-abortion nonprofit Society of Family Planning. The average number of monthly abortions decreased from 82,270 in the two months before Roe v. Wade was overt...

Null / ShutterstockCNA Staff, Apr 13, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).Mary Makuc will be one of an estimated 15,000 pilgrims expected to descend on the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, this weekend for the first in-person celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday there in three years."I think its a foretaste of heaven," the 60-year-old resident of nearby Monterey, Massachusetts, said of the free event, which has been held at the 350-acre shrine on the western...

Null / Credit: Chodyra Mike 1/Shutterstock.Washington D.C., Apr 13, 2023 / 11:20 am (CNA).The Biden administration plans to issue an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court allowed a Texas judges ruling to severely restrict abortion pill access. The appeals court Wednesday night temporarily suspended the judges ruling to invalidate the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. The decision will, however, leave in place restric...