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Pope Francis meets with the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in an audience May 5, 2023. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 5, 2023 / 09:15 am (CNA).Pope Francis invited the Vatican's child protection commission to have "a spirituality of reparation" toward victims of clergy sexual abuse and to examine where the Church has committed "sins of omission" in this area."The sexual abuse of minors by clergy and its poor handling by Church leaders has been one of the greatest challenges for the Church in our time," he told the Pontifical Commissi...

Bishop Robert Francis Prevost was named prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops on Jan. 30, 2023. / Credit: Frayjhonattan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsVatican City, May 5, 2023 / 07:50 am (CNA).A bishop should nurture closeness to Christ, share the beauty of the faith, use social media wisely, and have a universal vision, the new head of the Vatican's Dicastery for Bishops shared this week.Archbishop Robert Francis Prevost, who took up his new role in April, spoke to Vatican News about what he considers to be the "portrait of a bishop.""We are often preoccupied with ...

Photograph of a girl at the border with Ukraine, part of the "Women's Cry" photo exposition at the Vatican during the month of May 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI PrensaACI Prensa Staff, May 3, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).A photo exhibition titled "Women's Cry" will be on display during the month of May in St. Peter's Square. It seeks to give a voice to the suffering and injustices endured by women around the world.On several occasions Pope Francis has recalled the intention of the artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini when he made the great "colonnade" that frames St. Peter'...

Pope Francis greets His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Wales at the canonization of St. John Henry Newman at the Vatican on Oct. 13, 2019. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 4, 2023 / 03:04 am (CNA).The Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, will represent Pope Francis at the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday, May 6.Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni announced Parolin's attendance at the ceremony on Thursday.Parolin will be in attendance with other high-ranking guests, including world leaders, representatives of European monarchies, and royal families from around the worl...

Newspaper publisher and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai poses during an interview in Hong Kong in 2020. / Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 4, 2023 / 00:01 am (CNA).Following public outcry over its apparent censorship of a new documentary about imprisoned Catholic Hong Kong pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, TikTok has reversed its suspension of the account belonging to the film's producer, the Michigan-based Acton Institute.A spokesperson for the social media giant told the Wall Street Journal late Wednesday that the filmmaker's account "was rem...