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Father Vincent Delorenzo pleaded guilty April 25, 2023, to sexually abusing a 5-year-old boy in 1987. / YouTube/MLive, Feb. 6 2020Boston, Mass., Apr 27, 2023 / 13:47 pm (CNA).A Michigan Catholic priest who was removed from active ministry in 2002 after a sexual abuse complaint was brought against him pleaded guilty in state court April 25 to charges of sexually abusing a 5-year-old boy in 1987.Since the first complaint was brought to the Diocese of Lansing against Father Vincent Delorenzo in 2002, seven more accusations have been brought against him to the diocese, where he served as a priest...

Curtis Martin, founder of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS), meets Pope Francis in 2022. Martin was named April 25, 2023, to an advisory group of 14 consultors to advise the members of the Dicastery for Evangelization. / Credit: FOCUSDenver Newsroom, Apr 27, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA).Pope Francis' new appointments to the Dicastery for Evangelization include several prominent American Catholics. CNA spoke with a few of them about their views on how Catholics can best "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations" (Mt 28:19). Monsignor Eugene Sylva, serving an...

Null / Credit: All kind of people/ShutterstockDenver, Colo., Apr 27, 2023 / 15:20 pm (CNA).As the Biden administration seeks to establish a million-dollar hotline to provide abortion referrals, pro-life advocates say they have long had better alternatives to help pregnant women and their babies.An April 11 announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said that current Title X funding recipients may apply for a grant worth $1 million to $1.5 million to launch a hotline for pregnant women."The hotline will serve as a critical component in providing Title X pregna...

Father Marko Rupnik, SJ. / Screenshot Vatican NewsACI Prensa Staff, Apr 27, 2023 / 12:45 pm (CNA).Father Johan Verschueren, the superior of Father Marko Rupnik, a Jesuit priest and artist accused of sexually abusing numerous nuns, explained that from an ecclesial point of view it is "illegal" for Rupnik to be the owner of a company.On April 22, Verschueren, the Jesuit superior in Rome, told ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner, that "the unhappy thing" is that Rupnik owns 90% of a commercial company."From an ecclesial point of view it is illegal, unless it i...

Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal meets Pope Francis in a private, 30-minute encounter at the Vatican on the morning of April 27, 2023. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Apr 27, 2023 / 10:30 am (CNA).Ukraine's prime minister told journalists Thursday that he has asked Pope Francis for help getting back children forcibly deported to Russia.Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met Pope Francis in a private, 30-minute encounter at the Vatican on the morning of April 27.According to the Associated Press, Shmyhal later briefed reporters on the papal meeting, sharing that he had asked the pope for hi...