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Null / Pablo Esparza/CNAVatican City, Apr 9, 2023 / 04:45 am (CNA).On the morning of Easter Sunday 2023, Pope Francis presided over Mass in St. Peters Square before delivering his Urbi et Orbi message and blessing from the central loggia of St. Peters Basilica before an estimated 100,000 people."Urbi et Orbi" means "To the City [of Rome] and to the World." It is a special apostolic blessing given by the pope every year on Easter Sunday, Christmas, and other special occasions....

Null / Pablo Esparza/CNAVatican City, Apr 9, 2023 / 04:30 am (CNA).Pope Francis presided over Mass in St. Peters Square on Easter Sunday 2023, before giving the traditional Urbi et Orbi blessing in the presence of around 100,000 people.On a sunny and cool spring day in Rome, the pope recalled that Easter is "the most important and beautiful day of history," the day Christ rose from the dead."Let the Church and the world rejoice, for today our hopes no longer come up against the wa...

A bridge over the Mississippi River near St. Louis / Checubus / ShutterstockSt. Louis, Mo., Apr 9, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).A group of more than 3,000 Catholics in the Archdiocese of St. Louis sent a letter to Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski last week asking him to halt plans to merge numerous parishes in the coming years.Robert Onder, a former Missouri state senator and founding member of St. Gianna Parish in Wentzville, Missouri, is acting as procurator, or representative under canon law, ...

"The Pope Answers" airs on Hulu beginning April 5. / HuluWashington D.C., Apr 7, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA)."The true Church is at the peripheries," Pope Francis says in Disneys new documentary "The Pope: Answers," which was released April 5.Directed by Spanish filmmaker Jordi Évole and available exclusively on Hulu in the U.S. The one hour and 23 minute-long documentary shares a conversation between the pope and 10 young people from around the world.Filmed in a poor, w...

Pilgrims gather for the Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum in Rome on Good Friday, April 3, 2015. / Vatican Media.Rome Newsroom, Apr 7, 2023 / 14:05 pm (CNA).The meditations and prayers for the Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum on Good Friday this year come from the testimonies of victims of violence whom Pope Francis encountered during his international apostolic journeys over the past ten years.Officials in the Roman Curia compiled testimonies from Ukraine, Russia, the Holy Land, Cent...

A pro-abortion activist displays abortion pills as she counter-protests during an anti-abortion demonstration on March 25, 2023, in New York City. / Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 7, 2023 / 20:45 pm (CNA).A federal judge in Texas issued a much anticipated ruling Friday that, if it holds up in court, could take the abortion drug mifepristone off pharmacy shelves due to safety concerns and in doing so prevent over half of the abortions that take place in the coun...

A pro-abortion activist displays abortion pills as she counter-protests during an anti-abortion demonstration on March 25, 2023, in New York City. / Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 7, 2023 / 20:45 pm (CNA).A federal judge in Texas issued a much anticipated ruling Friday that, if it holds up in court, could take the abortion drug mifepristone off pharmacy shelves due to safety concerns and in doing so prevent over half of the abortions that take place in the coun...

State congresswoman Mónica Rodríguez Della Vecchia (right) of Puebla, Mexico, takes to the streets March 29, 2023, to raise awareness on her #ConLosNiñosNo (Not with children) campaign promoting her bill that seeks to prohibit sex changes in minors and punish those who force children or adolescents to undergo such procedures. / Credit: ActivateACI Prensa Staff, Apr 6, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).State congresswoman Mónica Rodríguez Della Vecchia took to the streets of the city of Puebla, Mexico t...

Pope Francis prays the Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, on Good Friday, April 14, 2017. / Vatican Media.Rome Newsroom, Apr 7, 2023 / 09:10 am (CNA).Pope Francis will not be attending the annual Good Friday Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum this year due to cold weather, according to the Vatican.The Holy See Press Office released a statement on April 7 saying that the pope will follow the meditations for the Way of the Cross from his residence, Casa Santa Marta, and wil...

Null / Credit: Sammis Reachers/PixabayACI Prensa Staff, Apr 7, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).Sister Karina de la Rosa Morales, a nun with the Xavierian Missionary Sisters of Mary and a member of the Rahamim network that is fighting against human trafficking, lamented that Mexico holds "first place in human trafficking, child abuse, organ selling, sex tourism, child abduction, and child pornography."ACI Prensa spoke with several of the nuns and a laywoman who belong to the Rahamim prevention ne...