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Flag of Mexico. / Credit: David Ramos/ACI PrensaACI Prensa Staff, Jun 3, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).Recent episodes of violence against the Catholic Church, including the murder of a priest and the attempted murder of an archbishop, once again bring to the fore the persecution of the faith in Mexico and the power of organized crime.On May 22, Augustinian priest Javier García Villafañe was found shot to death in his car on the Cuitzeo-Huandacareo highway. The Michoacán state attorney general's office stated that he "was killed by several gunshots."Days before, an 80-year-old assailant t...

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, presides over a penitential rite on June 3, 2023, two days after a Polish man stripped naked and stood on the basilica's high altar. / Vatican MediaWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 3, 2023 / 08:04 am (CNA).Two days after a naked man stood on the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in a shocking security breach, the basilica's archpriest on Saturday reconsecrated the altar during a penitential rite as required by canon law in cases where sacred places are desecrated.Vatican News reported that the unidentified man was a Polish national wh...

Cardinal Robert Sarah speaks with students and faculty at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas on May 25, 2023. / Credit: Benedicte Cedergren/AngelicumRome Newsroom, Jun 1, 2023 / 10:15 am (CNA).Cardinal Robert Sarah urged students studying at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas to ask in prayer for "an intimate and profound union with the Lord and with one another."Speaking at a Mass to mark the close of the academic year at the university in Rome known as the Angelicum, the Guinean cardinal spoke about the danger of division in the Church and the importance o...

Fulgence Kayishema, a former Rwandan police officer suspected to have ordered the killing of at least 2,000 Tutsis who were seeking refuge at St. Paul's Nyange Catholic Parish during the 1994 genocide, was arrested May 24, 2023. / Credit: Courtesy photoACI Africa, Jun 1, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).Fulgence Kayishema, a former Rwandan police officer who is suspected of having ordered the killing of at least 2,000 Tutsis who were seeking refuge at St. Paul's Nyange Catholic Parish in the current Nyundo Diocese during the 1994 genocide, has been arrested in South Africa.Reuters reported May 25 that Ka...

"Padre Pio," starring Shia LaBeouf, airs in theaters June 2, 2023. / Credit: Gravitas VenturesBoston, Mass., Jun 1, 2023 / 16:10 pm (CNA).The weight of playing St. Pio of Pietrelcina, more popularly known as Padre Pio, one of the most popular saints of the 20th century, was "enormous," Shia LaBeouf told CNA in late May. The new film "Padre Pio," starring "Transformers" and "Fury" star LaBeouf, airs in theaters June 2 and portrays the Italian friar in his early 20s immersed in the suffering of the residents of San Giovanni Rotondo, in eastern It...