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North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh. / ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 12, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, intends to veto a bill from the Republican-led Legislature that would ban most abortions at the 12-week mark as legislative and legal feuds over abortion policies continue to rage in states across the country.The legislation would reduce the state's limit on legalized abortion by eight weeks. It would set a 20-week cutoff in cases of rape and incest and a 24-week cutoff in cases of life-threatening fetal anomalies. There would be an ex...

A view of Baltimore's basilica nestled amid the city's famed row houses. / Public domainWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 12, 2023 / 14:40 pm (CNA).A 17-member commission created by the Archdiocese of Baltimore will investigate the roles that bishops, clergy, and other prominent Catholic figures within the archdiocese played in American slavery.The commission, which is still in its early stages, includes academics, archivists, and other researchers who are poring through old documents for information on the subject. The commission first met in March and hopes to unveil some of its findi...

Pope Francis arrives at the Paul VI Hall for his weekly general audience on Ash Wednesday Feb. 22, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNAVatican City, May 13, 2023 / 11:55 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Saturday issued a new constitution of the Vatican City State that further emphasizes the power of the pope over the sovereign state.The new constitution, called "the Fundamental Law of Vatican City State," is the third in history, and replaces a law promulgated by St. Pope John Paul II in 2000.The first constitution was issued in 1929 following the signing of the Lateran Pacts, which founded the city st...

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry. / Credit: CatholicChicago/YouTubeDenver Newsroom, May 12, 2023 / 12:25 pm (CNA).Longtime Black Catholic leader Bishop Joseph N. Perry, an auxiliary bishop of Chicago, is the new chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).Perry, 75, succeeds Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of Louisville, Kentucky, who served two terms as chairman. Fabre, who became archbishop of Louisville in March 2022, requested that a new chairman be named, the USCCB said in a May 10 announcement.Perry will be the third chairman of...

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