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A man places his hands on the glass urn holding the remains of St. Pio in Pietrelcina, Italy, in 2016. St. Pio was found to be in a state of partial deterioration and partial preservation when his coffin was opened in 2008, but experts present at the exhumation have said there was no supernatural quality to what was preserved. Artificial preservation techniques have since been applied to conserve his body from further deterioration and a lifelike mask has been placed over his skull. / Ivan Romano/GettyRome Newsroom, May 25, 2023 / 09:33 am (CNA).Catholic pilgrims are descending on a Benedictin...

Null / Shutterstock.CNA Newsroom, May 25, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA).South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill Thursday prohibiting abortion after six weeks of pregnancy that goes into effect immediately.The Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act, passed the Republican-controlled Senate Tuesday in a 27-19 vote, a week after the House passed the bill. The new law includes exceptions for rape and incest, the life of the mother, and fetal abnormalities up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. "With my signature, the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act is now law and will be...

Null / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 25, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).A Catholic bishop and Alliance Defending Freedom have criticized the 2022 ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) on the Pavez Pavez vs. Chile case for proposing controversial nondiscrimination "training" regarding sexual orientation that could threaten the country's religious denominations.The court gave Chile, and indirectly the Church, two years to comply.ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner, recently interviewed Juan Ignacio González Errázuriz, the bishop of San Bernardo, Ch...

Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA / nullDenver, Colo., May 25, 2023 / 14:55 pm (CNA).Three former students at a Massachusetts Catholic high school have filed a lawsuit against Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley and other Church leaders because of alleged abuse committed by the school's vice principal.Attorney Mitchell Garabedian on Monday announced that he had filed a May 5 lawsuit in Suffolk County Superior Court on behalf of three former students at Arlington Catholic High School in the northwest Boston suburb of Arlington.The plaintiffs, who are not named in court...

An all-Ireland pro-life rally in Dublin. / William Murphy/infomatique via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).Rome Newsroom, May 25, 2023 / 14:15 pm (CNA).Five years after Irish voters rejected the constitutional amendment that protected "the right to life of the unborn," more than 28,800 abortions have occurred in Ireland since the referendum came into effect.Irish Sen. Rónán Mullen called losing Ireland's pro-life Eighth Amendment in the referendum vote on May 25, 2018, "the most tragic moment in Irish political history" in terms of the number of lives lost.According to Ireland's Pro...