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Pope Francis addresses the faithful at his Wednesday general audience on March 27, 2024.

Pope Francis issues motu proprio on Vatican judiciary retirement age and benefits

Apr 19, 2024

Vatican magistrates will retire at the end of the judicial year in which they turn 75 and cardinal judges at the age of 80, unless the pope asks them to stay on.

Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski of Krakow announced on April 14, 2024, the decision to begin the process of beatification and canonization of Helena Agnieszka Kmiec, a young lay missionary murdered in Bolivia in 2017.

Cause for canonization opened for young Polish lay missionary killed in Bolivia

Apr 19, 2024

Helena Agnieszka Kmiec, a young lay missionary, was just 26 years old when she was murdered in Bolivia in 2017.

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Scotland pauses sex-change and puberty-blocker drugs for children

Apr 18, 2024

The announcement effectively ends the practice of providing sex-change drugs and hormone medications to children in Scotland.

Father Marko Rupnik.

Ex-Jesuit, alleged abuser Rupnik listed as consultant in 2024 Pontifical Yearbook

Apr 18, 2024

The information appears on page 1346 of the yearbook with the list of consultants of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

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Planned Parenthood reports record number of abortions in latest annual report

Apr 18, 2024

Released on Tuesday, the 2022-2023 report shows that Planned Parenthood performed 392,715 abortions between Oct. 1, 2021, and Sept. 30, 2022.

Cardinal Wilton Gregory speaks at an interview in Rome on April 11, 2024.

Cardinal Gregory recalls time when Black Catholics could not study in U.S. seminaries

Apr 18, 2024

Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, received this year’s Rector’s Award at an April 11 banquet at the Pontifical North American College.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee speaks during the signing of the ELVIS Act to Protect Voice & Likeness in Age of AI event at Robert’s Western World on March 21, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Tennessee names first English-language Bible translation in U.S. as official state book

Apr 18, 2024

Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, signed a bill on Tuesday that names the Aitken Bible and nine other texts as official state books in the Tennessee Blue Book manual.

A member of New South Wales Forensic Police is seen at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in the Sydney suburb of Wakeley, Australia, on April 16, 2024. Hundreds clashed with police in western Sydney on April 15 after Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was stabbed at the altar. New South Wales police have declared the attack a terror event. Police apprehended a 16-year-old in connection with the attack.

‘I forgive whoever has done this’: Australian bishop who survived stabbing speaks out

Apr 18, 2024

Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, who was attacked at an Australian church earlier this week, told his attacker: “You’re my son, and you’ll always be in my prayers.”

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Michigan priest resigns amid dispute over school appearance by ‘openly gay’ author 

Apr 18, 2024

The Sagninaw priest has been at the center of controversy since last month after area author Dominic Thrasher made an appearance at the parish’s school. 

House Republicans call for NCAA ban on biological men in women’s sports

Apr 18, 2024

The lawmakers penned a letter to NCAA President Charlie Baker that asks him to limit participation in women-only sports to biological women.

Rite of peace is not just a greeting or friendly gesture, nun explains

Apr 18, 2024

The sign of peace is meant to express “the sincere desire to be reconciled among ourselves, to overcome all divisions between us, to be instruments of peace.”

As new altar is consecrated at destroyed Iraq church, former parishioner recalls ‘wonderful days’

Apr 18, 2024

Georgena Habbaba says her eyes filled with tears to see her childhood parish and school in Mosul, Iraq, reconstructed and open again for worship and study.