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Maria Steen, an Irish barrister, makes the case for rejecting proposed amendments to Ireland's constitution. / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN News NightlyCNA Staff, Mar 8, 2024 / 15:35 pm (CNA).Voters in Ireland went to the polls today to decide on whether or not to strip from the country's constitution recognition of the central role of the traditional family founded on marriage as well as the societal value of women within the home. Final results from the vote aren't expected until Saturday.In an interview with "EWTN News Nightly" anchor Tracy Sabol, Maria Steen, an Irish barrister, made the case for rejecting the proposed "Family Amendment" that would both remove a clause about the importance of marriage and family to society as well as legally redefine "family" as either "founded on marriage or on other durable relationships.""Now, the government isn't able to tell us what 'durable relationships' means, and although it has been put to them many times, they say it will be up t...
The priest impersonator enters American Martyrs Church in Queens, New York, on March 3, 2024. / Credit: Diocese of BrooklynCNA Staff, Mar 7, 2024 / 15:20 pm (CNA).A scam artist who impersonated a priest across multiple U.S. states recently targeted a Catholic church in New York City, managing to steal nearly $1,000, according to police.NYPD Crime Stoppers said in a post on X on Wednesday that it was offering a $3,500 reward for tips leading to the arrest of a man who impersonated a priest to gain access to a Queens church. On Sunday, March 3, a priest at American Martyrs Church "was approached by an unknown individual who impersonated a priest to obtain access into [the parish]," the post said, adding that, "while inside, the individual removed $900 in cash from the victim's unlocked bedroom." WANTED-BURGLARY: 3/3/24 @ 12:18PM, the victim was approached by an unknown individual who impersonated a Priest in order to obtain access into the American Martyrs Chu...
null / Credit: ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 7, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA).Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, signed legislation that grants immunity to clinics when they "damage" or cause the "death" of human embryonic life in the process of providing in vitro fertilization (IVF) fertility treatments to women.Although the deaths of human embryos are an integral part of the IVF industry, Ivey claimed in a statement that IVF works to foster a "culture of life." Millions of preborn children have been killed or indefinitely frozen through the IVF process since the 1980s."Let me say clearly: Alabama supports growing families through IVF," Ivey said after signing the legislation. "From protecting the unborn to supporting IVF, Alabama is proud we are a pro-life, pro-family state."IVF is a fertility treatment opposed by the Catholic Church because it separates the marriage act from procreation and destroys embryonic human life.Acknowledging the ...
St. Thomas Aquinas uttered a last prophecy and an emotional prayer before his departure to Heaven. / Credit: Renata Sedmakova - ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, Mar 7, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA).March 7 marks the 750th anniversary of the death of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of Catholic education, who uttered a last prophecy and an emotional prayer before his departure to heaven. In addition, the saint reportedly spoke the lyrics of a beautiful hymn of his that is sung to this day throughout the Catholic Church.The account of the death of St. Thomas, written by Friar Guillermo de Tocco, biographer of the saint, which was published by the website tomasdeaquino.org run by the Institute of the Incarnate Word, relates how the Angelic Doctor was heading to Rome but was having health problems.Passing near the Fossanova Abbey of the Cistercian monks south of Rome, he agreed to stay there to regain his strength.In the cloister, he spoke the following prophecy to his companion: "Reginal...
Four of the six priests who regularly appear in "The Sacristy of the Vendée" program on YouTube. / Credit: Screenshot/Sacristy of the VendéeACI Prensa Staff, Mar 7, 2024 / 17:05 pm (CNA).Father Francisco José Delgado, a Spanish priest who hosts "La Sacristía de la Vendée" ("The Sacristy of the Vendée") program on YouTube, announced the suspension of the program "until further notice" following the controversy sparked by a "comment in bad taste" made about Pope Francis by one of the priests during a recent episode."After much reflection and of our own volition, wanting to avoid putting our bishops in the position of having to make a difficult decision that would grant victory to our enemies, we have decided to make a strategic retreat," the priest said during a live broadcast March 6."Perhaps losing a battle but avoiding losing the war, that is, let no one be mistaken: No one is forcing us to do anything, nor were we forced to apologize, rather we're taking that step f...
Pope Francis delivers an address during his Wednesday general audience on Feb. 14, 2024, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican MediaCNA Newsroom, Mar 7, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).Economics, international relations, and other social sciences may have not existed in their contemporary form when St. Thomas Aquinas died 750 years ago. But according to Pope Francis, experts in these fields should turn to the 13th-century theologian for help in answering some of today's most dire social challenges.In a letter to a Vatican gathering of social scientists on March 7, the anniversary of Aquinas' death, the pope said the Angelic Doctor's "rigorous study" of the philosophical and theological implications of the fact that man is made "in the image of God" was not only a precursor to the development of the social sciences but also can be an invaluable aid to them today."While his influence in shaping the moral and legal thinking of modernity is beyond doubt, a recovery o...
Pope Francis joines the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in prayer at the Vatican on March 7, 2024. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Mar 7, 2024 / 17:50 pm (CNA).Pope Francis encouraged the papal commission tasked with combatting clergy abuse to move forward in their efforts to make the Church a safer environment for both minors and vulnerable adults.Acknowledging that it is easy to feel discouraged when confronting the realities of the sexual abuse crisis, the pope told the the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors on Thursday morning that "our commitment must not wane.""Indeed, I encourage you to move forward so that the Church will be, always and everywhere, a place where everyone can feel at home," Pope Francis said. Underscoring the importance of listening "firsthand" to abuse victims, the pope stressed to the body that "we cannot help others to bear their burdens unless we shoulder them ourselves, unless we show genuine closeness an...
The purported skull of St. Thomas Aquinas in the Italian town of Priverno. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, Mar 7, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA).On the eve of the 750th anniversary of St. Thomas Aquinas' death, a skull revered as a relic of St. Thomas Aquinas was carried in a solemn procession through the cobblestone streets of the southern Italian town of Priverno.Bishop Mariano Crociata led the procession to honor the medieval philosopher and theologian widely considered one of the greatest thinkers in Western civilization who died in the nearby Fossanova Abbey on March 7, 1274.The procession of the purported skull of St. Thomas Aquinas in Priverno, Italy, March 7, 2024. Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNAThe relic has been venerated in the town's 12th-century cathedral since it was found in the altar of nearby Fossanova Abbey in 1585 with notarized documents indicating that it was the skull of the Angelic Doctor.Father Alessandro Trani, the rector of the Priverno Co-cathedral of Sant...
Stephen Destin is executive director of the Partnership for the Reconstruction of the Church in Haiti. / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN News NightlyCNA Staff, Mar 6, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA).During the latest round of violence in Haiti, heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of the country's main international airport, after gangs attacked the country's two biggest prisons and released thousands of inmates. The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was closed when the attack occurred and had no passengers on site, but gang members exchanged gunfire with police and soldiers.In an interview with EWTN News Nightly anchor Tracy Sabol, Stephen Destin, executive director of the Partnership for the Reconstruction of the Church in Haiti, said "international intervention is mandatory … to avoid bloodshed." Destin says there's "no possible way" to leave the country because "all commercial flights [are] being canceled," while "the main routes in and out of the capital" are being ...
United States Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on his way to a vote in the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 2, 2021. / Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 6, 2024 / 16:10 pm (CNA).United States Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is demanding that President Joe Biden protect Catholic churches from the "growing number of attacks" they have suffered since the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. In a March 5 letter addressed to the nation's second Catholic president, Rubio cited a tracker that found more than 400 attacks against Catholic churches since May of 2020. The tracker, last updated on March 5, lists numerous examples of property damage, including arson, statue destruction, rocks and bricks being thrown through windows and the spray painting of satanic messages. "These attacks are not random nor are they the result of a temporary lapse in judgment by perpetrators," Rubio, who is Catholic, wrote. "They are motivated by a deep and abiding animosi...
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