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Bishop Giovani Arana of El Alto, Bolivia. / Credit: CEBACI Prensa Staff, May 30, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Bishop Giovani Arana of El Alto, secretary general of the Bolivian Bishops' Conference, pointed out in his homily for Pentecost Sunday on May 28 that although the Church in the country has asked forgiveness of the victims and relatives of clerical sex abuse, he said, "we know that it's not enough.""These weeks we have witnessed that abuse of minors has been committed within the Church. We have asked for forgiveness; we know that it's not enough, which is why we must all commit ...

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Pope Francis at his general audience in St Peter's Square on May 31, 2023. / Adi Zace/EWTNVatican City, May 31, 2023 / 05:30 am (CNA).Pope Francis dedicated his entire general audience on Wednesday to sharing the life of Venerable Matteo Ricci, a 16th-century Jesuit missionary in China.The pope, who has mentioned China at every Wednesday general audience in the past three weeks, praised Ricci's "missionary spirit" in witnessing to the Gospel in the heart of the Imperial city of Beijing."Matteo Ricci died in Beijing in 1610, at the age of 57, a man who gave his entire life for th...

Pope Francis at his general audience in St. Peter's Square on May 17, 2023. / Vatican MediaDenver, Colo., May 31, 2023 / 11:45 am (CNA).Pope Francis' prayer intention for the month of June is for the abolition of torture. "Torture is not past history. Unfortunately, it's part of our history today," Pope Francis said in a video released May 30."How is it possible that the human capacity for cruelty is so huge?" he questioned. "There are extremely violent forms of torture. Others are more sophisticated, such as degrading someone, dulling the senses, or mas...

Religious sisters of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, sing as the process with the body of their late foundress, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, on May 29, 2023, at their abbey near Gower, Missouri. The sisters exhumed the nun's body on May 18 and discovered that it was apparently intact, four years after her death and burial in a simple wooden coffin. / Joe Bukuras/CNAGower, Missouri, May 29, 2023 / 20:02 pm (CNA).The body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, an African American nun whose surprisingly intact remains have created a sensation at a remote Missouri abbey, was placed insi...