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Pope Francis takes a telephone call during the May 17 General Audience. / Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN NewsVatican City, May 17, 2023 / 09:18 am (CNA).To the surprise of the crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis briefly interrupted his Wednesday general audience to take a phone call. After the pope greeted English-speaking pilgrims at his public audience on May 17, one of his assistants walked over to where Pope Francis was seated and handed him a cellphone. The pope spoke quietly on the phone for about one minute while the crowd waited in silence. After the phone call, the...

Pope Francis greeted victims of sexual abuse by members of the Church after the general audience on May 17, 2023. The victims arrived in Rome after making a pilgrimage by bicycle from Munich, Germany. / Archdiocese of Munich and FreisingRome Newsroom, May 17, 2023 / 07:33 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Wednesday met briefly with a group of abuse victims who undertook a bicycle pilgrimage from Germany to Rome this month to ask the pope to do everything in his power to heal and prevent abuses in the Catholic Church.The group, from the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, also delivered a letter to the...

"Transformers: Earthspark" Red Carpet Premiere & Reception at Paramount Studios, Sherry Lansing Theatre on Nov. 5, 2022 in Los Angeles. / Credit: Photo by Anna Webber/Getty Images for Paramount+Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 17, 2023 / 10:06 am (CNA).A new Transformers show, which is rated for children ages 7 or older, has faced some backlash and concerns for pushing gender ideology on children through the introduction of nonbinary characters who identify as neither male nor female."Transformers: EarthSpark," which is an animated series that debuted on Paramount+ and Ni...

Immigrants gather at a makeshift camp stranded between border walls between the U.S. and Mexico on May 13, 2023 in San Diego, California. / Photo by Mario Tama/Getty ImagesWashington D.C., May 15, 2023 / 14:17 pm (CNA).As the political debate rages over how to manage a new surge of migrants, Catholics like Rosario Reynolds living along the U.S.-Mexico border face a more personal dilemma: how to respond to desperate new arrivals they encounter in their communities and churches every day.Reynolds, a 64-year-old public school teacher for deaf students in El Paso, Texas, told CNA that she doesn't ...

Null / Credit: Brian A Jackson / ShutterstockWashington D.C., May 15, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Parish priest Michael Zacharias, 56, was convicted on five counts of sex trafficking by a federal jury in the Northern District of Ohio last Friday.Zacharias has been on administrative leave from the Diocese of Toledo since he was arrested on August 18, 2020. His crimes, committed between 1999 to 2020, involved three victims, two of whom were still minors when Zacharias began abusing them.The former pastor now faces a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum of life in prison.His sentencing hearing ha...