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A screenshot from Pope Francis' May 4 video message to young people attending World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal. / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, May 4, 2023 / 07:00 am (CNA).Pope Francis has sent a video message to the teens and young adults preparing to attend World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, in August."I'll see you in Lisbon," he said, according to an English translation of the message, delivered in Spanish. The message was published on the Vatican's YouTube page on May 4, just under three months before the Aug. 1-6 international gathering."Dear young people, you...

Arundel Castle in Sussex has been the seat of the Duke of Norfolk's ancestors for 850 years. / Miles Sabin from Brighton, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLondon, England, May 4, 2023 / 09:00 am (CNA).The Earl Marshal of England is little known and rarely seen, but he oversees the world's biggest spectacles. Queen Elizabeth's funeral last year is reported to have attracted more than 4 billion viewers, making it perhaps the most-watched event in history. This was the finest moment for the current Earl Marshall, Edward Fitzalan-Howard, more formally known as His Grace the Most Noble D...

Fra' John T. Dunlap, was sworn in as grand master of the Order of Malta on May 3, 2023. / Twitter @orderofmalta.Rome Newsroom, May 4, 2023 / 10:00 am (CNA).The Order of Malta this week elected Fra' John Dunlap as prince and 81st grand master of the Order of Malta.He was sworn in on May 3 and will hold the office for 10 years.Dunlap, 66, is Canadian and the first professed knight from the Americas to lead the sovereign state and religious order. He is a lawyer by profession.The position of grand master of the Order of Malta has been vacant since the death in 2020 of Fra' Giacomo dalla Torre del...

Critics of the Hate Speech bill worry that it could criminalize the speech of people such as author J.K. Rowling, who has said that "transgender women" are not actually women. / Daniel Ogren |Wikipedia|CC BY 2.0Denver, Colo., May 2, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).Ireland is preparing to enact a broader ban on hate crimes and hate speech as critics warn of effects on freedom of expression.Backers presented the bill, The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Act 2022, as an update of a 1989 law. They cited new technological developments and newly prominent minori...

Null / Juanje Garrido/ShutterstockWashington D.C., May 2, 2023 / 11:10 am (CNA).Two middle school teachers in California sued their school district April 27 over a policy they argue could force them to deceive parents if the parents' child identifies as a gender that does not match his or her biological sex.The policy in question, adopted by the Escondido Union School District (EUSD), refers to a student's "transgender or gender-nonconforming status" as "private information" that can only be disclosed "with the student's prior written consent, except when the...