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Archbishop-elect José Cobo of Madrid, Spain. / Credit: Archdiocese of MadridACI Prensa Staff, Jun 12, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).After his appointment as archbishop of Madrid became official, José Cobo said he sees a need to "reposition the Church" in a changing society.Cobo's appointment as the new archbishop to replace retired Cardinal Carlos Osoro was made official June 12. He has been serving as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Madrid since 2018.Asked at a press conference what he can contribute going forward as one of the youngest prelates of the Spanish episcopate, Cobo s...

Null / Credit: UnsplashACI Prensa Staff, Jun 12, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).The Archdiocese of Madrid held an event on Saturday featuring testimonies "of Christian fathers and mothers with LGTBI children organized by CRISMHOM [Homosexual Christian Men and Women of Madrid] families." The announcement of the second edition of the event, on the archdiocese's website and on social media, sparked controversy on Twitter.The June 10 event at St. Francis of Assisi Parish was announced with the rainbow-colored theme "The Church is already diverse. Open your eyes and your heart!"The progr...

Null / ivanko80/ShutterstockWashington D.C., Jun 9, 2023 / 14:40 pm (CNA).The Maryland Board of Public Works approved nearly $1.3 million in emergency spending to pay for a stockpile of two abortion drugs in response to a lawsuit that could take one of the drugs off the market.Most of the spending will support two contracts to purchase 30,000 doses of mifepristone, which can kill an unborn child up to 10 weeks' gestation. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine challenged the Food and Drug Administration's 2000 approval of the drug and subsequent deregulation in court, claiming that the agency faile...

A few hundred Catholics marched through the streets of Washington, D.C., to publicly pray and adore the body of Christ during a eucharistic procession on Saturday, May 20, 2023. / Credit: Joe Portolano/CNABoston, Mass., Jun 9, 2023 / 14:10 pm (CNA).Eucharist processions are being planned across the country this weekend in celebration of the solemnity of Corpus Christi, a more than 700-year-old feast day that commemorates the real presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.The processions occur as the Church in America enters its second phase of the U.S. bishops' National Eucharistic Revival, a...

Sacred images that were damaged by bullets in the church in Santa Anita were placed at the foot of the altar of the cathedral in Guachochi. / Guachochi Cathedral FacebookACI Prensa Staff, Jun 9, 2023 / 16:10 pm (CNA).The pastor of a church riddled with bullets in an armed confrontation between crime gangs in the border state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico called on the criminals involved to listen to "the voice of God" and to "turn their weapons into plows to till the earth, into instruments to sing and rejoice."In a letter shared with ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language ne...