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Null / Video_Creative / Shutterstock.Boston, Mass., May 3, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA).Republican Gov. Phil Scott of Vermont signed a bill Tuesday allowing non-residents to avail themselves of the state's assisted suicide law.Vermont legalized assisted suicide in 2013, but with this new law became the first state in the nation to change its legislation to allow the life-ending procedure to those living out of state, according to the Associated Press.Oregon stopped enforcing its residency requirement for assisted suicide in 2022 but has not enshrined that provision in law.Earlier this year Vermo...

Bishop Richard Henning (left) and Bishop Thomas Tobin. / Credit: Diocese of Rockville Centre / Diocese of ProvidenceBoston, Mass., May 1, 2023 / 10:50 am (CNA).Pope Francis announced Monday that he has accepted the resignation letter of Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, submitted on his 75th birthday on April 1, as required by canon law.Tobin is succeeded by Bishop Richard Henning, whom Pope Francis in November appointed as coadjutor bishop of Providence, home to more than 603,000 Catholics. "On this day dedicated to St. Joseph the Worker, and as we begin thi...

Null / Credit: Brian A Jackson / ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 1, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).A court has decreed that preliminary proceedings be initiated to investigate a group of artists for "the possible existence of a criminal offense" against religious sentiments.The decision of the Trial Court No. 6 of Fuenlabrada, Spain, was made as a result of a complaint filed by the Christian Lawyers Foundation.The complaint alleges the so-called Collective of Southern Artists (CAS) committed the crime of derision of the Christian faith.Specifically, the lawsuit was filed for an exhibition o...

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio leads the Archdiocese for the Military Services. / EWTN News In DepthWashington D.C., May 1, 2023 / 12:10 pm (CNA).After the U.S. Senate approved a Department of Veterans Affairs rule that provides for abortions at the department's medical centers, the archbishop of military services issued a scathing letter condemning the Senate and the Biden administration. The Senate voted 51-48 to affirm the new rule, which ensures VA medical centers provide abortion when the life or health of the mother is deemed to be at risk or in cases of rape or incest, reg...

The statue of Our Lady of Fatima was returned to St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church in Gibbsboro, New Jersey, Sept. 7, 2022. / Msgr. Louis MarucciBoston, Mass., May 1, 2023 / 12:45 pm (CNA).One of the replicas of the original Our Lady of Fatima statue will be touring the Archdiocese of Newark from April 28 to May 31. It was crafted using detailed instructions from Servant of God Sister Lucia Dos Santos, one of the three Fatima seers.One of only 13 copies in the world, the statue is typically housed at the Shrine of Fatima in Fatima, Portugal, where the Marian apparitions of Fatima, Po...