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Daniel Ortega / Bishop Silvio Báez. / Credit: Ricardo Patiño (CC BY-SA 2.0) / Credit: Facebook Silvio José BáezACI Prensa Staff, Apr 18, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Báez of Managua, Nicaragua, who is living in exile in the United States, responded to new verbal attacks by Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega saying they are signs of the weakness and desperation of the president of the Central American country."We Nicaraguans have to learn to interpret the language of the dictator. He speaks for the people that are with him, he speaks for his base; he doesn't speak as a...

Former U.S. postal worker Gerald Groff believes his religious freedom was violated when he was reprimanded for refusing to work on Sundays. / First Liberty InstituteWashington D.C., Apr 19, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA).The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed open to expanding religious rights protections in the workplace during oral arguments late Tuesday morning, but some were hesitant about making any far-reaching changes to legal precedent. All nine justices heard oral arguments in Groff V. DeJoy, a lawsuit brought by Gerald Groff, a mail carrier who sought a religious accommodation ...

Health care professionals at the Colorado-based, pro-life Bella Health and Wellness health care clinic. / Bella Health and WellnessDenver, Colo., Apr 17, 2023 / 13:02 pm (CNA).A federal judge granted a pro-life health care clinic a temporary exemption from Colorado's first-in-the-nation ban on the abortion pill reversal regimen after the clinic filed a lawsuit soon after the measure took effect.U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Domenico said in his injunction Sunday that the new law, which was part of a three-bill package expanding abortion in the state that was signed by Gov. Jared Polis on Fr...

Pope Francis meets participants in the plenary assembly of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches at the Vatican's Clementine Hall, Feb. 18, 2022 / Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Apr 17, 2023 / 11:55 am (CNA).On Monday Pope Francis introduced a limit of 80 years of age for retired bishops and patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches to take part in decisional voting.In the motu proprio Iam Pridem, issued April 17, the pope modified four articles in the Code of Canons for the Eastern Churches, which regularly meet in synods of bishops to make decisions and elect patriarchs.The changes exclud...

Historic Tower at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. / ShutterstockWashington D.C., Apr 17, 2023 / 15:55 pm (CNA).Lawmakers are demanding answers from the Biden administration after a military hospital ended a contract with the Franciscan friars who have provided Catholic pastoral services there for nearly two decades. The Holy Name College Friary in Silver Spring, Maryland, received a cease-and-desist order April 4, during Holy Week, that ordered them to halt all services it provides at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in nearby Bethesda, ...