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Santiaguito Church in Mexico sustained fire damage, according to a May 15, 2023, statement by the Diocese of Irapuato in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. / Credit: Facebook of Bishop Enrique Díaz Díaz of IrapuatoACI Prensa Staff, May 16, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).The Diocese of Irapuato in the Mexican state of Guanajuato expressed its "profound consternation" over a fire deliberately set at Santiaguito (St. James) Church and called it a "sacrilege." In a statement published May 15, Father Efrén Silva Plascencia, spokesman for the diocese, said that the fire "was set on ...

An FBI agent stands outside the Houck residence in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 23, 2022. Mark Houck was arrested that day and charged with assaulting a Planned Parenthood escort outside an Philadelphia abortion clinic on Oct. 13, 2021. / Courtesy of the Houck familyWashington D.C., May 16, 2023 / 15:45 pm (CNA).House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, threatened to reduce the Federal Bureau of Investigation's funding during a committee hearing in which lawmakers debated whether laws are being selectively enforced against pro-life activists."Politics is driving the agenda in far...

Pope Francis at his general audience on May 17, 2023 (left) and a painting of St. Francis Xavier in the Church of the Gesù in Rome (right). / Daniel Ibanez/Creative CommonsVatican City, May 17, 2023 / 04:35 am (CNA).In a world in which there are "so many people who need Jesus," St. Francis Xavier is an exemplary model of how to live and share the Gospel with zeal, Pope Francis said Wednesday.The pope dedicated his entire general audience on May 17 to sharing the story of the daring 16th-century saint who risked his life to travel to what was then considered the "unknown ends of...

Pope Francis takes a telephone call during the May 17 General Audience. / Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN NewsVatican City, May 17, 2023 / 09:18 am (CNA).To the surprise of the crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis briefly interrupted his Wednesday general audience to take a phone call. After the pope greeted English-speaking pilgrims at his public audience on May 17, one of his assistants walked over to where Pope Francis was seated and handed him a cellphone. The pope spoke quietly on the phone for about one minute while the crowd waited in silence. After the phone call, the...

Pope Francis greeted victims of sexual abuse by members of the Church after the general audience on May 17, 2023. The victims arrived in Rome after making a pilgrimage by bicycle from Munich, Germany. / Archdiocese of Munich and FreisingRome Newsroom, May 17, 2023 / 07:33 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Wednesday met briefly with a group of abuse victims who undertook a bicycle pilgrimage from Germany to Rome this month to ask the pope to do everything in his power to heal and prevent abuses in the Catholic Church.The group, from the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, also delivered a letter to the...