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"Transformers: Earthspark" Red Carpet Premiere & Reception at Paramount Studios, Sherry Lansing Theatre on Nov. 5, 2022 in Los Angeles. / Credit: Photo by Anna Webber/Getty Images for Paramount+Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 17, 2023 / 10:06 am (CNA).A new Transformers show, which is rated for children ages 7 or older, has faced some backlash and concerns for pushing gender ideology on children through the introduction of nonbinary characters who identify as neither male nor female."Transformers: EarthSpark," which is an animated series that debuted on Paramount+ and Ni...

Immigrants gather at a makeshift camp stranded between border walls between the U.S. and Mexico on May 13, 2023 in San Diego, California. / Photo by Mario Tama/Getty ImagesWashington D.C., May 15, 2023 / 14:17 pm (CNA).As the political debate rages over how to manage a new surge of migrants, Catholics like Rosario Reynolds living along the U.S.-Mexico border face a more personal dilemma: how to respond to desperate new arrivals they encounter in their communities and churches every day.Reynolds, a 64-year-old public school teacher for deaf students in El Paso, Texas, told CNA that she doesn't ...

Null / Credit: Brian A Jackson / ShutterstockWashington D.C., May 15, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Parish priest Michael Zacharias, 56, was convicted on five counts of sex trafficking by a federal jury in the Northern District of Ohio last Friday.Zacharias has been on administrative leave from the Diocese of Toledo since he was arrested on August 18, 2020. His crimes, committed between 1999 to 2020, involved three victims, two of whom were still minors when Zacharias began abusing them.The former pastor now faces a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum of life in prison.His sentencing hearing ha...

Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California / Skier Dude|Wikipedia|CC BY-SA 3.0Boston, Mass., May 15, 2023 / 15:05 pm (CNA).The Diocese of Oakland, in California, has filed for bankruptcy protection, Bishop Michael Barber announced May 8. The filing comes less than a month following Barber's announcement that the diocese was strongly considering the legal maneuver due to hundreds of expected child sexual abuse lawsuits brought after the statute of limitations expired at the end of a three-year legal window.In 2019, the state of California passed legislation that granted...

Church of the Sacred Heart in Bordeaux, France. / Credit: Olivier432 - Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Denver Newsroom, May 16, 2023 / 09:05 am (CNA).Catholic clergy in France will soon carry a standardized identification card linked to a national database that shows whether they are currently in good standing and can celebrate Mass and hear confessions."It aims to prevent impostors [false priests or deacons] from continuing to act to the detriment of the faithful and the sacraments," the Conference of French Bishops' website said May 5. It noted that current paper documents can be f...