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Our Lady of All the Angels church, built by the Society of St. Pius X, in the Archdiocese of Puebla, Mexico. / Credit: David Ramos/ACI PrensaACI Prensa Staff, May 19, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA).With the construction of a new church called "Our Lady of All the Angels," the Archdiocese of Puebla in Mexico warned the faithful about the Lefebvrist "schismatic movement" of the Fraternity of St. Pius X, stressing that the sacraments their priests administer "are illicit."In a statement released May 12, the archdiocese stated that the church, located near the San Pedro Cholul...

The Vatican has withdrawn a commemorative stamp for the 2023 World Youth Day. / Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City StateDenver Newsroom, May 19, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).A Vatican-produced postage stamp to commemorate the upcoming World Youth Day 2023 in Portugal has been withdrawn after criticism over its use of a mid-20th-century monument that is controversial in some Portuguese circles.The stamp, created by the Vatican Philatelic Service and issued on May 16, shows Pope Francis leading a group of children up the Monument to Discoveries. The Lisbon monument was built in 1960 f...

Bishop Michael Olson. / Diocese of Ft. WorthWashington D.C., May 19, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA).Nuns from an Arlington, Texas, Carmelite monastery are suing the Diocese of Fort Worth and the bishop for $1 million for alleged violations of privacy and harming the physical and emotional well-being of the sisters. The lawsuit stems from interactions related to a diocesan investigation of the Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach. The diocese has said it was investigating "grave misconduct" based on a report that she "committed sins against the Sixth Commandment and violated her...

Null / KREML, ShutterstockCNA Newsroom, May 19, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Four Catholic bishops from the U.S. and Japan called for G7 leaders to take action against nuclear weapons amid a "more dangerous" arms race and an escalated threat of nuclear war."We strongly urge world leaders at the G7 Summit to show by example how international leadership is ready, willing, and able to work with nuclear weapons and nonnuclear weapons states to ensure no country or city ever suffers the horrors of nuclear war again," said the four bishops in a May 15 letter to G7 leaders.Signing t...

Canonization Mass for St. Artemide Zatti and St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini on Oct. 9, 2022. / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, May 20, 2023 / 05:40 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Saturday approved the beatification of a young Italian priest martyred by Nazis during World War II, and advanced the beatification causes of eight other men and women.Father Giuseppe Beotti was one month shy of his 32nd birthday when he was shot by the Germans after refusing to leave his parish despite threats to his life. "As long as there is a soul to care for, I stay in my place," he is recorded as saying.Be...