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The Holy See Press Office announced on March 5, 2024, that Monsignor Shane L. Kirby has been named the Substitute Promoter of Justice of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. / Credit: Diocese of ScrantonVatican City, Mar 5, 2024 / 11:40 am (CNA).Pope Francis has appointed a Catholic priest from the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania, as an officer of the Vatican's highest court.The Holy See Press Office announced on March 5 that Monsignor Shane L. Kirby has been named the substitute promoter of justice of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.The Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, established in the 15th century, is one of three courts within the Holy See and functions as a sort of Supreme Court, hearing appeals coming from the two other tribunals. The pope is the Holy See's supreme judge.Kirby has been based in Rome since 2017 serving as an official in the Dicastery for the Clergy. Raised in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, Kirby converted from the Pen...
A Rural Parish Clinic mobile unit makes the rounds, featured on "EWTN News in Depth" March 1, 2024. / Credit: "EWTN News in Depth"CNA Staff, Mar 5, 2024 / 07:45 am (CNA).The St. Louis Archdiocese is the largest in Missouri by population, and though much of its territory is urban or suburban, large swaths of its territory are rural, where medical and dental facilities can be few and far between. Stepping up to help are Catholic volunteers staffing mobile medical and dental units, housed in large trucks and run by the archdiocese, which have helped to fill the gaps for hundreds of patients, workers told "EWTN News in Depth."The Rural Parish Clinic, an initiative of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, began in 2019 and rotates through several rural destinations twice a week, offering doctors, nurses, exam rooms, and prescriptions. Private donations and grant money keep the mobile medical clinic and an accompanying mobile dental clinic running. Vicki Boehmer, a registered nurse...
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty's Lori Windham joins Montse Alvarado, president and COO of EWTN News, and Josh Payne, a lawyer with Campbell Miller Payne, on "EWTN News In Depth" on March 1, 2024. / Credit: "EWTN News In Depth"CNA Staff, Mar 4, 2024 / 17:15 pm (CNA).An Indiana Catholic couple is in the grips of a "nightmare" after their son was seized from them when they refused to adhere to his chosen transgender identity, an attorney told EWTN News on Friday.After Mary and Jeremy Cox didn't use the pronouns requested by their teenage son when he began to identify as a girl, Indiana Child Services removed their son from his home. The parents sought legal action and their case, M.C. and J.C. v. Indiana, is now being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.Despite no evidence of abuse or neglect, the Coxes' son has not been returned to them. The attorney for the Cox family, Lori Windham, told "EWTN News in Depth" anchor Montse Alvarado the couple is "living ...
null / Credit: ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 4, 2024 / 17:40 pm (CNA).A comprehensive new study from researchers in Finland found that providing adolescents with transgender drugs or surgeries does not appear to solve the underlying mental health problems faced by youths who struggle with their gender identity.While some lawmakers and transgender activists have claimed that puberty-blocking drugs and transgender surgical procedures are "life-saving medicine," the study disputes that claim. The research did not find any statistically significant reduction in suicides among adolescents who received "medical gender reassignment" through hormonal or surgical interventions. "[The research] does not support the claims that [gender reassignment] is necessary in order to prevent suicide," the researchers wrote in the study. "[Gender reassignment] has also not been shown to reduce even suicidal ideation, and suicidal ideation is not equal to actual suicide risk."The st...
The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center in New York City. / Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 4, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA).The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is making permanent a policy to provide abortions in certain circumstances to service members even in states where abortion is illegal.The policy, which has been in place since 2022, was made final in a rule posted in the federal register on Monday.Under the rule, the VA is authorized to perform abortions on service members and their family members in its health care facilities in cases of rape, incest, and to preserve the life or health of the mother. The rule also allows VA facilities to provide service members with abortion counseling.Though the policy has already been in effect on a temporary basis, the new rule will take permanent effect on April 3. The department reported providing 88 abortions under this policy in the first year of it being in effect.This is in addi...
U.S. Supreme Court building. / Credit: Steven Frame/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 4, 2024 / 12:33 pm (CNA).The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday that states cannot remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot ahead of the 2024 elections.The 9-0 decision, issued Monday morning, reversed a December 2023 ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that had disqualified Trump from that state's ballot. That order had directed state authorities to not list him on the 2024 presidential ballot and to not count any write-in votes for him.The Colorado decision claimed the state had the authority to bar Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment for his role in allegedly inciting an insurrection against the federal government on Jan. 6, 2021.After the Colorado ruling, an Illinois judge issued a similar order, while Maine's attorney general said the state would bar Trump from the ballot. Several other states signaled similar plans. The Supreme Co...
Speaking in his Angelus address on March 3 about the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis made an emotional plea for negotiations to reach a deal that both frees the hostages immediately and grants civilians access to humanitarian aid. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Mar 3, 2024 / 09:25 am (CNA)."Enough!" "Stop!" Pope Francis repeated from the window of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace on Sunday as he called for Israel and Palestine to reach an agreement for "an immediate cease-fire in Gaza." Speaking in his Angelus address on March 3, the pope made an emotional plea for negotiations to reach a deal that both frees the hostages immediately and grants civilians access to humanitarian aid."I carry daily in my heart, with sorrow, the suffering of the peoples in Palestine and Israel due to the ongoing hostilities," the pope said, reflecting on five months of war in Gaza."The thousands of dead, the wounded, the displaced, the immense destruction, causes pain, and this with tremend...
Cardinal-elect Víctor Manuel Fernández was appointed by Pope Francis on July 1, 2023, to become the next prefect for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. / Credit: Courtesy of Archdiocese of La PlataACI Prensa Staff, Mar 3, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).The move toward so-called inclusive language finds its origins in the feminist movement where activists considered sexist the generic masculine form of words, which has perennially been understood to include both men and women. In the past, for example, no one thought of challenging "for the good of mankind" as excluding women. However, the feminist movement drew heightened sensitivity to what activists considered the "patriarchal" nature of language.Various publications started to use terms or forms of words that made it clear that a job could be performed by both men and women. Hence "fireman" became "firefighter" and "mankind" became "humankind," etc.While some of these changes are not that dramatic or noticeable in Engl...
Speaking in his Angelus address on March 3 about the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis made an emotional plea for negotiations to reach a deal that both frees the hostages immediately and grants civilians access to humanitarian aid. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Mar 3, 2024 / 09:25 am (CNA)."Enough!" "Stop!" Pope Francis repeated from the window of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace on Sunday as he called for Israel and Palestine to reach an agreement for "an immediate ceasefire in Gaza." Speaking in his Angelus address on March 3, the pope made an emotional plea for negotiations to reach a deal that both frees the hostages immediately and grants civilians access to humanitarian aid."I carry daily in my heart, with sorrow, the suffering of the peoples in Palestine and Israel due to the ongoing hostilities," the pope said, reflecting on five months of war in Gaza."The thousands of dead, the wounded, the displaced, the immense destruction, causes pain, and this with tremendo...
Woolen scarves produced at the Rafedìn tailoring workshop in Amman, Jordan. The workshop is hosted in the premises of the Latin parish of Mar Yousef and it provides employment for approximately 20 young Iraqi women who sought refuge in Jordan. / Credit: Marinella BandiniJerusalem, Mar 3, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).In Amman, Jordan, there is a tailoring workshop where, in addition to creating clothing and accessories, the wounds of life are stitched back together. It is called Rafedìn, which means "the two rivers." The rivers refer to the Tigris and the Euphrates, enclosing Mesopotamia, the land of Iraq. The name was chosen by the first Iraqi girls who participated in the project: approximately 20 young women who fled the persecution of ISIS in 2014. In Jordan, they attempted to rebuild their future.A view of the Rafedìn tailoring workshop in Amman, Jordan. The word "Rafedìn" means "the two rivers." The rivers refer to the Tigris and the Euphrates, enclosing Mesopotamia, the lan...
