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Staff at a new facility in the Archdiocese of Bogotá, Colombia, that helps people recover from drug addiction. / Credit: Courtesy photoACI Prensa Staff, May 18, 2023 / 12:45 pm (CNA).The Church in Bergamo, Italy, and Bogotá, Colombia, have recently joined together through two Catholic foundations to help people who have fallen into drug addiction to recover.The Santina Foundation, directed by Msgr. Luigi Ginami, a priest of the Diocese of Bergamo, and the Domus Colombia Foundation, part of the Care for Human Dignity ministry of the Archdiocese of Bogotá and headed by Father Jorge Arias, hav...

Null / SiljeAO/ShutterstockDenver, Colo., May 16, 2023 / 14:10 pm (CNA).Federal regulators with the Food and Drug Administration should reject proposed over-the-counter use of the progestin-only "minipill" contraceptive, the U.S. bishops have said. They echo other critics who say the drug's side effects mean patients should have physician supervision while taking the drug."It is concerning that the FDA has a recommendation before it to approve over-the-counter hormonal contraception when there is strong evidence of the many harmful risks to women's health," Bishop Robert E....

Santiaguito Church in Mexico sustained fire damage, according to a May 15, 2023, statement by the Diocese of Irapuato in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. / Credit: Facebook of Bishop Enrique Díaz Díaz of IrapuatoACI Prensa Staff, May 16, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).The Diocese of Irapuato in the Mexican state of Guanajuato expressed its "profound consternation" over a fire deliberately set at Santiaguito (St. James) Church and called it a "sacrilege." In a statement published May 15, Father Efrén Silva Plascencia, spokesman for the diocese, said that the fire "was set on ...

An FBI agent stands outside the Houck residence in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 23, 2022. Mark Houck was arrested that day and charged with assaulting a Planned Parenthood escort outside an Philadelphia abortion clinic on Oct. 13, 2021. / Courtesy of the Houck familyWashington D.C., May 16, 2023 / 15:45 pm (CNA).House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, threatened to reduce the Federal Bureau of Investigation's funding during a committee hearing in which lawmakers debated whether laws are being selectively enforced against pro-life activists."Politics is driving the agenda in far...

Pope Francis at his general audience on May 17, 2023 (left) and a painting of St. Francis Xavier in the Church of the Gesù in Rome (right). / Daniel Ibanez/Creative CommonsVatican City, May 17, 2023 / 04:35 am (CNA).In a world in which there are "so many people who need Jesus," St. Francis Xavier is an exemplary model of how to live and share the Gospel with zeal, Pope Francis said Wednesday.The pope dedicated his entire general audience on May 17 to sharing the story of the daring 16th-century saint who risked his life to travel to what was then considered the "unknown ends of...