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Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio leads the Archdiocese for the Military Services. / EWTN News In DepthWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 1, 2023 / 18:40 pm (CNA).President Joe Biden is wrong on taxpayer funding of abortion and wrong on Pope Franciss view of it, the president of the U.S. bishops conference said Wednesday.The president suggested Tuesday that neither the pope nor all Catholic bishops oppose public funding for abortion in the United States.Biden, a Catholic who supports legal and publicly ...

Pope Francis is greeted at the NDolo Airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Jan. 31, 2023. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Jan 31, 2023 / 11:11 am (CNA).In his first speech in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, Pope Francis urged the international community to give the central African country its autonomy while not turning a blind eye to exploitation and violence."This country and this continent deserve to be respected and listened to; they deserve to find space and ...

Pope Francis celebrated Mass with around 1 million people in Kinshasa, DRC, on Feb. 1, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Feb 1, 2023 / 04:30 am (CNA).More than one million people attended Pope Francis Mass in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday morning, according to local authorities.The Mass in Kinshasa, DRCs capital city, took place on the airfield of the NDolo Airport on the second day of the popes trip to two countries in central and east Africa.Catholics attended a prayer vigil ...

Cardinal Joseph Zen, former bishop of Hong Hong, attends the funeral Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Jan. 5, 2023, in St. Peter's Square. / Credit: Diane MontagnaRome Newsroom, Feb 1, 2023 / 09:02 am (CNA).Cardinal Joseph Zen has been hospitalized in Hong Kong after his health deteriorated upon returning from Benedict XVIs funeral in Rome.The 91-year-old cardinal wrote on his blog on Jan. 31 that he is receiving treatment in the hospital after experiencing difficulty breathing.Zen sa...

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. / Credit: Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CC BY-SA 4.0)CNA Newsroom, Jan 30, 2023 / 10:20 am (CNA).Exiled Nicaraguan priest Uriel Vallejos recounted how the bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Álvarez, who has been held under house arrest since Aug. 19, created a secret human rights office to address the persecution coming from the dictatorial regime of President Daniel Ortega.In an interview with the Spanish Catholic weekly Alfa y Omega published Ja...

Mark Houck and his wife, Ryan-Marie Houck, prior to entering the federal court house in Philadelphia on Jan. 25, 2023. / Credit: Thomas More Society/VimeoPhiladelphia, Pa., Jan 30, 2023 / 12:20 pm (CNA).One of the 12 jurors deciding the fate of the pro-life father of seven Mark Houck in Philadelphia federal court has been replaced by an alternate.The alternate took the place of the original juror at approximately 1:30 p.m. Monday, when deliberations began again. Defense lawyers for Houck could n...

Null / 279photo Studio/Shutterstock.Washington D.C., Jan 30, 2023 / 17:15 pm (CNA).The Biden administration Monday announced a proposal to eliminate employers ability to object to the Obamacare contraceptives mandate on moral grounds.This change only proposes rescinding the moral objection exemption, not the religious exemption. The 2020 Supreme Court case Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania guaranteed that religious employers objecting to contraceptives on religious grounds would not be ...

Mark Houck talks to reporters outside the U.S. District courthouse in Philadelphia with his lawyers, Peter Breen (left), Brian McMonagle (right), and Andrew Bath (background) following his acquittal on two charges of violating the FACE Act, Jan. 30, 2023. / Joe Bukuras/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 30, 2023 / 16:09 pm (CNA).Pro-life lawmakers and activists are celebrating after a jury acquitted pro-life activist Mark Houck Monday on federal charges stemming from an altercation with a volunte...

Bishop Georg Bätzing, chairman of the German bishops conference, meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican, June 24, 2021. / Vatican Media.CNA Newsroom, Jan 30, 2023 / 11:45 am (CNA).Bishop Georg Bätzing has criticized Pope Francis and dismissed the popes recent words that the controversial German Synodal Way is unhelpful, damaging, and ideologically poisoned, saying the Germans had "fundamentally different views of synodality" than Rome. In an interview published Jan. 27, the pres...

Pope Francis visits the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023, to entrust his upcoming trip to Africa to the Blessed Virgin Mary. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Jan 30, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).Pope Francis visited the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Monday to entrust his upcoming trip to Africa to the Blessed Virgin Mary.The pope will depart Rome on Tuesday morning for the capital city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country home to more than 52 million Catholics.It w...