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Null / Credit: Emiliano Arruabarrena/CathopicACI Prensa Staff, Jun 2, 2023 / 13:45 pm (CNA).The Catholic Church in Spain on June 1 presented the report "To shed light," which tallies 927 complaints of alleged sexual abuse of minors under 18 years of age or vulnerable people that occurred from 1945 to 2022.The report does not include situations involving the abuse of conscience and power or committed against adults.The report was "prepared from the testimonies that have been collected in the offices [of the protection of minors and abuse prevention], without assuming or proving i...

The cross of the German "Synodal Way." / Maximilian von Lachner / Synodaler WegACI Prensa Staff, Jun 2, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA).Birgit Kelle, spokeswoman for the German lay group Neuer Anfang (New Beginning) in a May 29 interview with EWTN Noticias explained that its members reject the Synodal Path initiated by the Church in Germany because they want to "remain Catholic."This lay initiative was started two years ago, when the bishops and various lay leaders in Germany had already embarked on the controversial Synodal Path.Organized by the Central Committee of German Catholics...

Flag of Mexico. / Credit: David Ramos/ACI PrensaACI Prensa Staff, Jun 3, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).Recent episodes of violence against the Catholic Church, including the murder of a priest and the attempted murder of an archbishop, once again bring to the fore the persecution of the faith in Mexico and the power of organized crime.On May 22, Augustinian priest Javier García Villafañe was found shot to death in his car on the Cuitzeo-Huandacareo highway. The Michoacán state attorney general's office stated that he "was killed by several gunshots."Days before, an 80-year-old assailant t...

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, presides over a penitential rite on June 3, 2023, two days after a Polish man stripped naked and stood on the basilica's high altar. / Vatican MediaWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 3, 2023 / 08:04 am (CNA).Two days after a naked man stood on the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in a shocking security breach, the basilica's archpriest on Saturday reconsecrated the altar during a penitential rite as required by canon law in cases where sacred places are desecrated.Vatican News reported that the unidentified man was a Polish national wh...

Cardinal Robert Sarah speaks with students and faculty at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas on May 25, 2023. / Credit: Benedicte Cedergren/AngelicumRome Newsroom, Jun 1, 2023 / 10:15 am (CNA).Cardinal Robert Sarah urged students studying at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas to ask in prayer for "an intimate and profound union with the Lord and with one another."Speaking at a Mass to mark the close of the academic year at the university in Rome known as the Angelicum, the Guinean cardinal spoke about the danger of division in the Church and the importance o...