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Bishop Franz Josef Bode of the Diocese of Osnabrück served as vice president of the German bishops' conference from 2017 to 2023. / Courtesy of Synodaler Weg/Maximilian von LachnerCNA Newsroom, Mar 25, 2023 / 08:56 am (CNA).Pope Francis accepted the resignation of a German bishop on Saturday who played a key role in the German Synodal Way and had come under pressure over his handling of clerical sexual abuse in his diocese. Bishop Franz Josef Bode had previously refused to s...

Nicaraguan political prisoner Juan Sebastian Chamorro speaks to the press ouside a hotel in Herndon, Virginia, on Feb. 9, 2023, after he was released by the Nicaraguan government. / Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty ImagesWashington D.C., Mar 23, 2023 / 17:14 pm (CNA).Recently released political prisoners and human rights activists testified before members of Congress Wednesday about the ongoing persecution in Nicaragua, which one witness called an "unholy war against the Cat...

Null / Bilderstoeckchen/ShutterstockSt. Louis, Mo., Mar 23, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles will lead a six-mile eucharistic procession on Saturday through the city as part of the National Eucharistic Revival, a three-year initiative of the U.S. bishops to renew Catholics devotion to Christ in the holy Eucharist.The March 25 procession will go from a historic Los Angeles mission church, three miles down a main road to another parish, and back.The day will begin with M...

Pleuntje via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Boston, Mass., Mar 23, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee has stripped one of his priests of the faculty to hear confessions following the clergymans public support for civil laws mandating that priests break the seal of confession for sins of sexual abuse."I have informed Father James Connell that effective immediately he is to cease all such erroneous communications that distort the teachings of the Church about the confessional...

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Null / Credit: Cherries/ShutterstockWashington D.C., Mar 24, 2023 / 11:08 am (CNA).Catholic bishops in Texas are all-in advocating for parental school choice in the state Legislature this spring. "St. Paul VI spoke well of the Catholic Churchs understanding of education. He said, Parents, who have the primary and inalienable right and duty to educate their children, must enjoy true liberty in their choice of schools. Therefore, parental choice continues to be a top priority of the Texa...

Father Esquibel (Daniel Zovatto) and Father Gabriele Amorth (Russell Crowe) in Screen Gems The Pope's Exorcist. / Jonathan Hession © 2023 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Denver, Colo., Mar 24, 2023 / 09:56 am (CNA).The trailer of the upcoming Russell Crowe movie "The Popes Exorcist" indicates that the film might not do justice to the Italian exorcist Father Gabriel Amorth or the rite of exorcism as practiced in the Catholic Church, according to an exorcist organization Amorth hims...

Pope Francis reads the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in St. Peters Basilica, March 25, 2022. / Vatican Media.St. Louis, Mo., Mar 24, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA).March 25 marks one year since Pope Francis consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.Earlier this week, the pope encouraged "each believer and community, especially prayer groups," to renew the consecration of the whole world every March 25 on the solemnity of the Annunciation. But what does...

A memorial Mass for the late Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell was held at St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Hacienda Heights, California, on March 1, 2023. / Credit: YouTube/St. John Vianney Hacienda HeightsBoston, Mass., Mar 24, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).Carlos Medina, the man charged with murdering Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David OConnell in February, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in court Wednesday.News of OConnells Feb. 18 murder shocked the nation after i...

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