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All Souls Catholic School and Church in Englewood, Colorado / Always dreamin|Wikipedia|CC BY-SA 4.0Denver, Colo., Feb 8, 2023 / 08:55 am (CNA).A teacher at a Catholic parish school in Denver was fired after the Denver Archdiocese learned of her same-sex relationship, which violated the conduct code she had signed. The teacher has since aligned herself with LGBT activists and has made statements claiming there is no contradiction between her behavior and Catholicism.For six years Maggie Bart...

WYD Sydney - July 15 - 20, 2008 / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Feb 8, 2023 / 08:30 am (CNA).In a 2018 essay published after his death, Pope Benedict XVI said a Protestant-like understanding of the Eucharist and strong calls for intercommunion are often found together.Commenting on the current situation of eucharistic life in the Catholic Church, the pope emeritus said: "One process of great impact is the almost complete disappearance of the sacrament of penance."There is also the unders...

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The speech marks Biden's first address to the new Republican-controlled House. / Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesWashington D.C., Feb 8, 2023 / 06:08 am (CNA).During his 2023 State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Joe Biden called on Congress to codify Roe v. Wade and pass legislation banning discriminatio...

A view of a Pride flag hanging from Peterborough Cathedral in 2019 / ShutterstockWashington D.C., Feb 6, 2023 / 15:45 pm (CNA).As Church of England leaders meet in a contentious synod over whether to bless same-sex unions, tensions escalated when a diocese reported a lay synod member to police for "hate speech." The Diocese of Coventry announced reported synod member Sam Margrave to the police after he reportedly posted his beliefs that same-sex relationships are sinful. The dioce...

Member of Mexico Congress Salma Luévano. / Credit: Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of the UnionACI Prensa Staff, Feb 6, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA).The Specialized Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary in Mexico has ruled against the National Front for the Family (FNF) and its president, Rodrigo Iván Cortés, for calling Salma Luévano, a "trans" woman congressional representative, a "man."In a Feb. 2 statement, the court said that Cortés and the FNF &qu...

Null / Credit: Chodyra Mike 1/Shutterstock.Denver, Colo., Feb 7, 2023 / 12:23 pm (CNA).A Planned Parenthood affiliate has won a legal judgment of almost $1 million against a pro-life group that gathered outside of a Spokane abortion clinic.The group, which calls itself the Church at Planned Parenthood, must pay $110,000 in civil damages to Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho and another $850,000 in legal fees to the abortion provider, The Spokesman-Review newspaper reported ...

Null / Alex Krisan via www.shutterstock.com.Washington D.C., Feb 7, 2023 / 10:47 am (CNA).Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced plans at his annual State of the State address Monday to expand support for crisis pregnancy centers in the state to $100 million.Abortion has been illegal in Tennessee for all stages of pregnancy since a ban went into effect in the state in August 2022. On Monday night, Lee, a Republican, proposed strengthening support for women and families through a list of expanded soci...

A Syrian woman and her children warm by a stove at an emergency shelter in the center of the city of Maarat Misrin, in the rebel-held northern part of the northwestern Idlib province Feb. 7, 2023, one day after a deadly earthquake hit Syria and Turkey. / Photo by ABDULAZIZ KETAZ/AFP via Getty ImagesSt. Louis, Mo., Feb 7, 2023 / 12:50 pm (CNA).Catholic aid agencies worldwide are coordinating and sending aid after a series of massive earthquakes shook parts of Turkey and Syria, leaving continued d...

Father Oscar Benavidez. / Credit: Parish of the Holy Spirit of Mulukukú, NicaraguaCNA Newsroom, Feb 6, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA).The dictatorship in Nicaragua, led by President Daniel Ortega, sentenced Father Óscar Danilo Benavidez Dávila to 10 years in prison for the alleged crimes of "conspiracy" and "spreading fake news" to the detriment of the regime.The news site Despacho 505 obtained access to the closed-doors verdict and reported Feb. 4 that the Tenth Criminal Trial Dis...

Father Daniel L. Mode, chaplain of the Coast Guard, stands in the large atrium of the Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, D.C., in front of a massive wall of flags and insignia of the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Coast Guard. / Credit: Leslie Miller/Arlington Catholic HeraldWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 5, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA).Father Daniel Mode was the chaplain for the "Lone Survivor" SEAL team in Afghanistan and has authored a book about the famed "Grunt Pa...