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A few hundred Catholics marched through the streets of Washington, D.C., to publicly pray and adore the body of Christ during a eucharistic procession on Saturday, May 20, 2023. / Credit: Joe Portolano/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 24, 2023 / 16:15 pm (CNA).A few hundred Catholics marched through the streets of Washington, D.C., to publicly pray and adore the body of Christ during a eucharistic procession on Saturday, May 20, two days after the solemnity of the Ascension. The procession, led by Catholic Information Center (CIC) Director Father Charles Trullols, began at the CIC buildi...

The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. / Credit: Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity Discalced Carmelite NunsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 24, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA).A Carmelite nun who accused the Diocese of Fort Worth and Bishop Michael Olson of violating both civil law and canon law is now appealing to the Vatican after the bishop refused to let her choose her own canon lawyer for representation in a diocesan investigation, according to a civil lawyer representing the nun.The diocese has accused the Reverend Mother Sup...

Pope Francis delivers his Regina Caeli address on May 21, 2023. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 25, 2023 / 08:07 am (CNA).Pope Francis has emphasized the importance of the virtue of justice in a message for the upcoming World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation."God wants justice to reign; it is as essential to our life as God's children, made in his likeness, as water is essential for our physical survival," he said in the message, released May 25."God wants everyone to strive to be just in every situation, to live according to his laws and thus to enable life to flourish,...

Archbishop Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez at a press conference on May 21, 2023. / Credit: Video capture/Archdiocese of DurangoACI Prensa Staff, May 23, 2023 / 15:40 pm (CNA).An 80-year-old man wielding a knife tried to kill Archbishop Faustino Armendáriz of Durango, Mexico, on May 21. The attack took place in the cathedral sacristy after the Sunday noon Mass.The man was later arrested by municipal authorities.After the failed murder attempt, Armendáriz on Twitter thanked "God, the Most Holy Virgin, the Immaculate Conception, and the Holy Martyrs, who today on their feast day, have prote...

Vatican's top abuse investigator Maltese archbishop Charles Scicluna (right) and fellow papal envoy Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu give a press conference at the Apostolic Nunciature in Santiago, Chile, on June 19, 2018. / Claudio Reyes/AFP via Getty ImagesACI Prensa Staff, May 23, 2023 / 15:01 pm (CNA).In the wake of a new wave of scandals due to allegations of sexual abuse of minors committed by members of various religious orders in the country, the Bolivian Bishops' Conference has announced that Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, an official of the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, ...