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Null / Image credit: 40 days for lifeACI Prensa Staff, Apr 28, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).The international organization 40 Days for Life reported Wednesday that during its 2023 Lenten campaign, 680 babies were saved from abortion around the world, totaling 23,528 children rescued since the initiative began in 2007.In information shared with ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner, 40 Days for Life in Ibero-America said that during the campaign, which lasted from Feb. 22 to April 2 in the liturgical season of Lent, three abortion clinics were also closed in the world and "three workers...

Null / Credit: Father Luis Ángel Espinosa, LC/CathopicDenver, Colo., Apr 26, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).More than 450 men are set to be ordained priests this year, and the survey of their ordination class shows that the overwhelming majority of priests-to-be were raised Catholic in intact families and individually showed habits of frequent church service and regular prayer life."On this day, let us thank God for continuing to call men and women to serve him and his Church as priests, religious, and consecrated persons," Bishop Earl Boyea of Lansing, Michigan, said April 25. "We pray...

Woman holding transgender sign. Via Shutterstock / nullACI Prensa Staff, Apr 27, 2023 / 07:55 am (CNA).A bill that would ban so-called "conversion therapy" for people with same-sex attraction could trigger a "witch hunt" against parents and health professionals in Mexico, a pro-family leader has warned.The Justice, Diversity, and Health committees of the federal Chamber of Deputies (lower house of Congress) approved for debate a bill against "conversion therapy" already passed in the Senate. The bill is being pushed by Sen. Citlalli Hernández, a member of Mexico'...

Pope Francis at his general audience in St Peter's Square on April 26, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNAVatican City, Apr 26, 2023 / 05:15 am (CNA).It is no accident that the patron saint of foreign missionaries is a cloistered nun, Pope Francis said Wednesday.Speaking in St. Peter's Square on April 26, the pope pointed to the example of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries, and other cloistered religious who sustain the life of the Church through intercessory prayer."Truly, the monastics are the beating heart of the proclamation [of the Gospel]. Their prayer is oxygen for a...

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, grand chancellor of the Pontifical Institute John Paul II, speaks at a press conference. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 23, 2023 / 15:02 pm (CNA).Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has spoken in support of legalized medically assisted suicide, calling it "feasible" despite the clear teachings of the Catholic Church against it."Personally, I would not practice suicide assistance, but I understand that legal mediation may be the greatest common good concretely possible under the cond...