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St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral in Chilpancingo, Mexico. / Credit: Mfrand/Wikimedia CommonsACI Prensa Staff, Feb 17, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).Four bishops from the Mexican state of Guerrero recently met with members of organized crime in an effort to seek peace in a region shaken by violent clashes and death.During a Feb. 14 press conference, Bishop José de Jesús González of the Diocese of Chilpancingo-Chilapa said that the prelates of the area "began to seek dialogue with the [crime] bosses that could bring us peace." However, he lamented that his goal "was not achieved."Accompanying González at the meeting were the archbishop of Acapulco, Leopoldo González; the bishop of Tlapa, Dagoberto Sosa; and the bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Joel Ocampo.?The four bishops' ecclesiastical province in southwestern Mexico has a population of approximately 4.8 million.The main obstacle to these negotiations, according to González, is that criminals "covet territories." The prelate pointed o...
Sister Cecilia María of the Holy Face. / Credit: Dicastery for the Causes of Saints/General Curia of the Discalced CarmelitesACI Prensa Staff, Feb 17, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA).The archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz in Argentina, Sergio Fenoy, signed the edict that begins the process prior to the opening of the cause of canonization of Sister Cecilia María of the Holy Face, a Carmelite nun from the province of Neuquén who died from cancer in 2016 at the age of 43.Dated Feb. 14, the edict bears the signature of the archbishop of Santa Fe because the nun lived in the Carmelite monastery located in the archdiocese from 1997 to 2016, the year of her death.Her testimony of "love and trust in Jesus Christ, even in the midst of the hardest trials, has awakened in many hearts the desire for a greater commitment to Christian life," the edict states.Thus "having grown, over the years, her reputation for holiness and for signs," the beginning of the preliminary process to open her cause f...
Pope Francis at the Synod on Synodality's closing Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on Oct. 29, 2023. / Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, Feb 17, 2024 / 10:01 am (CNA).The Vatican announced Saturday that Pope Francis has launched synodal study groups to analyze key issues ahead of October's Synod on Synodality assembly.Pope Francis has issued a chirograph asking the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia to collaborate with the General Secretariat of the Synod to establish the study groups for "in-depth analysis" of some of the themes that emerged in the first Synod on Synodality assembly.The pope did not specify in the chirograph published on Feb. 17 how many groups will be formed, what topics will be studied, or who will participate in the study groups.The synthesis report published at the end of the first synod assembly lists 75 different "matters for consideration," including women's access to diaconal ministry, priestly celibacy, and "Eucharistic hospitality" for interfaith couples. ...
Luke and Sarah Hellwig in the new series "The Catholic Parent" on FORMED. / Credit: The Augustine InstituteCNA Staff, Feb 17, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).Have you ever been the parent constantly running your child out of Mass for bathroom breaks or because of crying fits? Or have you spent a lot of time sitting in the pew giving your child anything you can find to keep him or her entertained and quiet during Mass? If you're a Catholic parent, the answer to these questions is probably a resounding "yes."To encourage and empower parents on their journey to pass the faith down to the next generation, the Augustine Institute and Catholic Sprouts have come together to create a six-episode series highlighting Catholic parents as the primary educators of the faith for their children. It's called "The Catholic Parent," and it is now available to view on FORMED.Nancy Bandzuch is a Catholic mother of six and founder of Catholic Sprouts, an organization that provides educational and catechetica...
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York / John Bilous/ShutterstockCNA Newsroom, Feb 16, 2024 / 22:15 pm (CNA).A raucous funeral liturgy for a high-profile trans-activist and sex-worker advocate was held Thursday in New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral, sparking an outcry on social media that the iconic church was misused to advance an ideological agenda at odds with Catholic teaching.The Manhattan cathedral hosted the Feb. 15 funeral service for Cecilia Gentili, an activist who helped to decriminalize sex work in New York, lobbied for "gender identity" to be added as a protected class to the state's human rights laws, and was a major fundraiser for transgender causes.Organizers reportedly did not disclose to the cathedral that Gentili, who died Feb. 6 at age 52, was a biological man who identified as a woman."I kept it under wraps," Ceyeye Doroshow, the service's organizer, told The New York Times.Doroshow said that Gentili's friends requested that the funeral service be held...
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York / John Bilous/ShutterstockCNA Newsroom, Feb 16, 2024 / 22:15 pm (CNA).A raucous funeral liturgy for a high-profile trans-activist and sex-worker advocate was held Thursday in New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral, sparking an outcry on social media that the iconic church was misused to advance an ideological agenda at odds with Catholic teaching.The Manhattan cathedral hosted the Feb. 15 funeral service for Cecilia Gentili, an activist who helped to decriminalize sex work in New York, lobbied for "gender identity" to be added as a protected class to the state's human rights laws, and was a major fundraiser for transgender causes.Organizers reportedly did not disclose to the cathedral that Gentili, who died Feb. 6 at age 52, was a biological man who identified as a woman."I kept it under wraps," Ceyeye Doroshow, the service's organizer, told The New York Times.Doroshow said that Gentili's friends requested that the funeral service be held...
Photographs and flowers are left outside the Russian Embassy in London on Feb. 16, 2024, following the news of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. / Credit: DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty ImagesCNA Staff, Feb 16, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA).Russian leaders on Friday announced the death of Alexei Navalny, a prominent opposition politician to President Vladimir Putin, in a Siberian prison. Navalny, 47, had been serving a 19-year sentence for alleged extremism and years of criticism of the authoritarian Putin in a harsh penal colony north of the Arctic Circle. Navalny's political opposition to Putin and to corruption in Russia had garnered attention around the world for years, especially after Navalny chose to return to Russia after the Kremlin allegedly tried to poison him in 2020. Navalny, a complex figure, ran for the presidency in Russia in 2018, despite a court ruling him ineligible. After Russia detained him in 2021, he continued to speak out from prison, i...
Mexican presidential candidates Xóchitl Gálvez and Claudia Sheinbaum met separately with Pope Francis. / Crédit: Xóchitl Gálvez, Claudia SheinbaumACI Prensa Staff, Feb 16, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA).Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz and Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who are running for president of Mexico in this year's elections, met in private individual audiences with Pope Francis this week at the Vatican.Mexico's presidential elections are scheduled for June 2. Citizens will elect not only the next president, who will succeed Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but also new members of the federal Congress as well as state governors and mayors.The Vatican Press Office has not released any official statement regarding Pope Francis' meetings with Gálvez and Sheinbaum. In a Feb. 15 press conference, Gálvez said her audience with the Holy Father took place on Feb. 13 and lasted approximately 40 minutes.The candidate said her meeting with the pontiff was "of a spiritual nature," as she described herself as "a ...
Cardinal Joseph Zen is bishop emeritus of Hong Kong. / Credit: The World Over with Raymond ArroyoRome Newsroom, Feb 16, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, has released another critique of the Synod on Synodality, arguing that the ongoing discussion and discernment process offers "two opposing visions" of the nature, organization, and role of the Church. "On the one hand, the Church is presented as founded by Jesus on the apostles and their successors, with a hierarchy of ordained ministers who guide the faithful on the journey toward the heavenly Jerusalem," the 92-year-old cardinal observes in a nearly 3,600-word commentary posted on Feb. 15 titled "How will the Synod continue and end?""On the other hand, there is talk of an undefined synodality, a 'democracy of the baptized,'" he continues, interjecting "Which baptized people? Do they at least go to church regularly? Do they draw faith from the Bible and strength fro...
Father Patrick Pullicino, an English Catholic priest and neurologist, has been vindicated after being investigated by a UK medical regulation agency for giving his expert opinion in an emergency end-of-life case. / Credit: Christian ConcernCNA Staff, Feb 16, 2024 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Father Patrick Pullicino, an English Catholic priest and neurologist, has been vindicated after being investigated by a U.K. medical regulation agency for giving his expert opinion in an emergency end-of-life case in which he called for further tests before cutting off a hospitalized man's nutrition and hydration.The man, referred to as "RS," ultimately died in 2020 amid legal battles between his family and the hospital over his fate. But shortly after the man's death, a complaint was brought against Pullicino by an academic researcher and end-of-life planning advocate in 2021 accusing the priest of bias because of his Catholic and "pro-life values," according to Christian Concern, the advocacy or...
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