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Members of an Italian pro-life and pro-family organization marched in the "Demonstration for Life" May 20, 2023, with a banner saying "There's life in the mother's womb. Let's care for it. #stopabortion" / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, May 20, 2023 / 12:48 pm (CNA).Thousands of individuals, families, and young people braved the cool, rainy weather to march in Italy's national "Demonstration for Life" in Rome on Saturday afternoon.The walk May 20 started at Rome's Piazza della Repubblica, close to the central Termini train station, and slowly wound...

Null / Torwaistudio, ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 20, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).In the developing sexual abuse of minors scandal involving Jesuits in Bolivia, a May 13 article in the Spanish newspaper El País implicated two other priests, Francesc Peris and Carlos Villamil, and also published the testimonies of eight alleged victims.The Jesuits asked the victims to make a formal complaint with the Society of Jesus and offered their assistance in filing a complaint with the public prosecutor. El País broke the initial story on the scandal April 29 in a report titled "Diary of a ped...

Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna, was made a cardinal during the consistory of Oct. 5, 2019. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA.Rome Newsroom, May 20, 2023 / 11:46 am (CNA).Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has been asked by Pope Francis to head a peace mission between Russia and Ukraine on behalf of the Vatican, the Holy See press office director said Saturday."The timing of such a mission, and its modes, are currently being studied," Matteo Bruni said in a brief statement to journalists May 20.Bruni said Pope Francis hopes the operation, which will be carried out in agreement with the Secre...

Statue of Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, Bosnia Herzegovina. / Gnuckx via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).Rome Newsroom, May 20, 2023 / 08:42 am (CNA).An institution has been formed in Rome to study alleged Marian apparitions and other supernatural phenomena in the Catholic Church.The International Observatory on Marian Apparitions and Mystical Phenomenon (OISA) was established in April and is part of the Pontifical International Marian Academy.The objective of the observatory is to research alleged Marian apparitions and other phenomena, such as the apparent crying or bleeding of Marian statues and images, wh...

St. Anne's Gate / Wikimapia.orgCNA Newsroom, May 18, 2023 / 15:13 pm (CNA).An unidentified man is in custody after driving a car at high speed through a gate at the Vatican Thursday, the Holy See press office said.A guard stationed at the Santa Anna entrance fired his weapon in the direction of the vehicle's front tires, hitting the left front fender, but the vehicle proceeded onto the Vatican grounds until the driver got out at the San Damaso Courtyard, the main courtyard of the Apostolic Palace, the press office said. There the man was blocked and placed under arrest by the Gendarmerie ...