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Veteran Affairs health clinic in Eugene, Oregon. / ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Apr 20, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted not to overturn a new rule adding abortion to the health benefits of veterans and their dependents, prompting objections from leaders of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), who called the vote "a gross failure.""Our heroes and their dependents deserve quality health care services instead of policies to end the lives of their own children," read a joint statement Thursday from the USCCB's president, Archbishop Ti...

Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II holds the Christmas Eve Mass at the Nativity of Christ Cathedral in Egypt's administrative capital, on Jan. 6, 2023, in Cairo, Egypt. / Islam Safwat/Getty ImagesRome Newsroom, Apr 21, 2023 / 09:25 am (CNA).The head of the Coptic Church is scheduled to offer the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in the Catholic Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome on May 14.According to Father Martin Browne, an official at the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, this liturgy will take place in the context of an official visit of Coptic Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria ...

A fragment on the true cross on which Jesus was condemned to death. / Daniel Ibanez/CNAWashington D.C., Apr 19, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).Thanks to a gift from Pope Francis to King Charles III, two pieces of the true cross on which Jesus was crucified will lead the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom's coronation procession May 6.The precious relics have been inlaid into the "Cross of Wales," which will head Charles' procession into Westminster Abbey, where he will be officially crowned.Many will be watching the ceremony to witness the pomp and circumstance still found in the official...

Pope Francis delivered an address before praying the Regina Caeli on Divine Mercy Sunday April 16, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Apr 18, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).By deciding to leave the hospital as soon as possible last month and immediately showing himself standing and not in a wheelchair, Pope Francis wanted to send out two signals. The first is that, despite the infirmities of his age, he still manages and intends to govern, and therefore one should not even think of a shadow papacy. The second is that no one can decide how the liturgies will be managed.Indeed, during Pope Francis' hosp...

Daniel Ortega / Bishop Silvio Báez. / Credit: Ricardo Patiño (CC BY-SA 2.0) / Credit: Facebook Silvio José BáezACI Prensa Staff, Apr 18, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Báez of Managua, Nicaragua, who is living in exile in the United States, responded to new verbal attacks by Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega saying they are signs of the weakness and desperation of the president of the Central American country."We Nicaraguans have to learn to interpret the language of the dictator. He speaks for the people that are with him, he speaks for his base; he doesn't speak as a...