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Luis Argüello, archbishop of Valladolid and general secretary of the Spanish Episcopal Conference. / Credit: CEEACI Prensa Staff, Apr 8, 2024 / 16:25 pm (CNA).The president of the Spanish Bishops' Conference and archbishop of Valladolid, Luis Argüello, is encouraging reflection on the issue of migration in view of the upcoming debate in the country's Congress of Deputies (lower house) on a citizen initiative to grant legal residency to an estimated 390,00 to 470,000 illegal immigrants with residence in Spain prior to November 2021.In a post on X, the prelate shared the issues that in his view are on the table as lawmakers take into consideration a People's Legislative Initiative (ILP, by its Spanish acronym) on the migration issue, which has garnered more than 700,000 signatures.Promoted since 2021 by institutions inside and outside the Catholic Church, the ILP was admitted for possible consideration by the Congress of Deputies last December. Now the legislators must decid...
President Joe Biden speaks at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisconsin, April 8, 2024. / Credit: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 8, 2024 / 16:50 pm (CNA).President Joe Biden's reelection campaign accused the presumptive Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump of "scrambling" on the issue of abortion after Trump announced that he supports states making their own abortion laws."Trump is scrambling," Biden said, according to the campaign statement. "He's worried that since he's the one responsible for overturning Roe, the voters will hold him accountable in 2024.""Well, I have news for Donald: They will," the statement continued. "America was built on personal freedom and liberty. So, there is nothing more un-American than having our personal freedoms taken away. And that is what Donald Trump has done."These comments from the Biden campaign came shortly after Trump posted a video on Truth Soc...
null / ShutterstockCNA Staff, Apr 8, 2024 / 15:45 pm (CNA).Religious broadcasters, with the support of Catholic media groups, are asking the Supreme Court to rule whether government officials charged them unfairly high rates in violation of their constitutional rights.The Catholic Radio Association (CRA) and CatholicVote.org Education Fund have both filed amicus briefs in the case National Religious Broadcasters Noncommercial Music License Committee v. Copyright Royalty Board.The committee is arguing that the Copyright Royalty Board is subjecting religious broadcasters to a discriminatory royalty fee that violates U.S. religious freedom law. The Copyright Royalty Board consists of three judges who "oversee the copyright law's statutory licenses," according to the board's website. Those licenses "permit qualified parties to use multiple copyrighted works without obtaining separate licenses from each copyright owner."The legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF),...
Dome of St. Peter's basilica, Vatican City. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 8, 2024 / 09:15 am (CNA).The Vatican's top doctrinal office issued a declaration on the theme of human dignity on Monday that addresses growing concerns such as gender theory, sex changes, surrogacy, and euthanasia in addition to abortion, poverty, human trafficking, and war."In the face of so many violations of human dignity that seriously threaten the future of the human family, the Church encourages the promotion of the dignity of every human person, regardless of their physical, mental, cultural, social, and religious characteristics," reads the Vatican declaration issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. The declaration, titled Dignitas Infinita, which means "infinite dignity," states that the Church highlights these concerns "with hope, confident of the power that flows from the risen Christ, who has fully revealed the integral dignity of every man an...
null / nito/Shutterstock.Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 8, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).A study from researchers in the Netherlands found that nearly two-thirds of children who had wished that they belonged to the opposite sex as adolescents ultimately became comfortable with their biological sex in early adulthood.The 15-year study, which was conducted by researchers at the Netherlands' University of Groningen, tracked the gender unhappiness rates of 2,772 study participants from ages 11 through 26.In the early stages of the study, 11% of participants reported the desire to have been born as the opposite gender. As they got older, the number steadily declined and it eventually dropped to about 4% of participants wishing they had been born as the opposite gender at the last follow-up, which was usually at age 26.According to the study, 78% of participants never became discontent with their gender. About 19% grew more content over time and only 2% became less content over time.The...
The Apostolic Administration in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, made up of priests, religious, and laypeople, gather in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, during Easter Week, April 2-3, 2024, to pray and discuss the work of the small but growing Catholic community spread throughout the Central Asian country. Father Anthony Corcoran (pictured in glasses holding a blue pen and paper) and Caritas representative Sher Abdugapirov (glasses and light blue hoodie) can be seen in this photo. / Credit: Father Remisgiuz Kalski, SJRome Newsroom, Apr 8, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).During Easter Week, April 2-3, the Apostolic Administration of Kyrgyzstan convened a two-day meeting in the capital of Bishkek dedicated to prayer, sharing, and the work of evangelization within the small yet budding Catholic community spread throughout the Central Asian country."It is such a great consolation to all of us to be a part of this universal Church with so many members across the world," said Father Anthony Corcoran, SJ, apostolic ...
A total solar eclipse. / Credit: Public domain via PixabayNational Catholic Register, Apr 7, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA).When the moon passes between the sun and Earth creating a total solar eclipse on April 8, many Catholics in its path will be looking skyward to observe the phenomenon from a spiritual and scientific perspective.Some will gather at retreat centers like Our Lady of the Pines in Fremont, Ohio, to reflect on the eclipse as a metaphor for the darkness and shadow in their own lives, while others, like a group of students at the Catholic University of America who will be studying the eclipse in collaboration with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, will take a more methodical approach. A partial solar eclipse will be visible throughout North America and Central America on April 8, but only those in what is known as the "path of totality" will be able to observe the sun completely eclipsed by the moon. In the United States, this includes parts of Texas, Oklahoma,...
The Divine Mercy image is displayed at St. Peter's Square before Pope Francis Regina Caeli prayer on April 7, 2024. / Credit: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty ImagesVatican City, Apr 7, 2024 / 09:10 am (CNA).Pope Francis during the Regina Caeli on Divine Mercy Sunday noted that the "fullness of life" comes not from the pursuit of transitory pleasure but is "realized in Jesus." "To have life," the pope said, "it is enough to fix one's eyes on the crucified and risen Jesus, encountering him in the sacraments and in prayer, recognizing that he is present, believing in him, letting oneself be touched by his grace and guided by his example, experiencing the joy of loving like him. Every living encounter with Jesus enables us to have more life." Divine Mercy Sunday, instituted by St. John Paul II during the Jubilee Year of 2000, is celebrated on the Second Sunday of Easter.Pope Francis delivers his Regina Caeli reflection on April 7, 2024. Credit: Vatican MediaT...
Image of the Divine Mercy. / Credit: EWTN News In DepthACI Prensa Staff, Apr 7, 2024 / 10:10 am (CNA).The feast of divine mercy is celebrated on the Second Sunday of Easter and is associated with the prayer of the Divine Mercy Chaplet, a pious practice revealed to St. Maria Faustina Kowalska by Jesus himself that has spread throughout the world.While Catholics are not required to believe private revelations, the Church often encourages the practices associated with those that she approves, such as St. Faustina's divine mercy revelations. There are five main reasons to offer this prayer, as Inés Mery, a volunteer with the Divine Mercy Foundation's shrine in Chile, explained to ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner.1. It develops an attitude of trust.Jesus appeared to St. Faustina on Sept. 13-14, 1935, in Vilnius, Lithuania, and asked her to make his mercy known through the dissemination of an image of himself bearing the inscription "Jesus, I trust in you" that he...
Cappella sings "O Sacrum Convivium" at the University of Mary on Holy Thursday, March 28, 2024. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Rebecca RaberCNA Staff, Apr 7, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).A group of 28 choral students left the University of Mary (UMary) in Bismarck, North Dakota, in May of last year to embark on a world tour as part of a two-year Eucharistic Revival project, culminating this year in a choral album. As part of their Eucharistic Revival project, the students and their director, Rebecca Raber, have been performing and recording music at sites of Eucharistic miracles.The ultimate goal is to record enough choral songs to create an album focused on Eucharistic hymns. "When I heard about the Eucharistic Revival, I knew I wanted to do something from the perspective of liturgical music," Raber told CNA in an email. The choir, known as "Cappella," has been recording a collection of music focused on the Eucharist that includes a wide variety of styles of music such as...
