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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Faced with decades of rising secularism, the Catholic Church must invest in families and in strengthening other forms of community to transmit the faith, Pope Francis said. "The big issue before us is to understand how to overcome the rupture that has been established in the transmission of faith," the pope told members of the Dicastery for Evangelization's section for new evangelization March 15. "To that end there is an urgent need to recover an effective relationship with families and formation centers." Developing faith in Christ "requires a meaningful experience lived in the family and in the Christian community as a life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ in order to be transmitted," he wrote in his message to members of the dicastery during their plenary assembly. "Without this real and existential encounter, one will always be subject to the temptation to make faith a theory and not a testimony of life." Pope Francis poses for a photo with members of...
Pornhub website logo. / Credit: Kate Krav-Rude/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Mar 15, 2024 / 11:25 am (CNA).Pornhub, one of the largest pornography websites in the world, has ceased offering its website in Texas rather than comply with the state's recently implemented age verification law.State Attorney General Ken Paxton said on X on Thursday that Pornhub "has now disabled its website in Texas." The porn website pulled the service after a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last week that declared Texas' pornography site age verification law, passed in 2023, could stand. Texas visitors to Pornhub's website on Thursday were greeted with a message stating that the state was "requiring us to verify your age before allowing you access to our website.""Not only does this impinge on the rights of adults to access protected speech, it fails strict scrutiny by employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas' stated purpo...
French President Emmanuel Macron during a meeting with Governor of Spain at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on March 21, 2022. / Credit: Victor Velter|ShutterstockCNA Staff, Mar 15, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA).Several French Catholic bishops this week roundly condemned a recently announced proposal by the country's government to legalize the practice of assisted suicide.French President Emmanuel Macron announced last week that the French Parliament in May would examine a proposal to legalize "aid-in-dying" throughout the country. Macron in an interview with the Catholic newspaper La Croix described the measure as "a law of fraternity" that "reconciles the autonomy of the individual and the solidarity of the nation."The law "opens the possibility of asking for help in dying under certain strict conditions," the president said. Reims Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort condemned the president's proposal in an interview with La Croix."Calling a text that opens the...
The new Norwegian translation of the Bible, published March 15, 2024. / Credit: Norwegian Bible SocietyCNA Newsroom, Mar 15, 2024 / 14:00 pm (CNA).For the first time in Norway's history, the Norwegian Bible Society has announced the publication of a Catholic edition of the Bible, marking a significant milestone for the country's Catholic community. Published today, March 15, this edition is distinguished not only by its inclusivity; the project saw linguists and Scripture experts collaborating with poets and other literary authors, including Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.The Catholic editor Heidi Haugros Øyma, deeply involved in the project, told CNA in a written interview: "The inclusion of the Deuterocanonical books represents a move toward a more inclusive, ecumenical approach to Scripture in Norway." The new publication corrects a long-standing omission influenced by historical pressures, presenting a genuinely ecumenical Bible that reflects the entire Christian canon.Many ...
Former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines is sworn in during a House Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services hearing on Capitol Hill on Dec. 5, 2023, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesCNA Staff, Mar 15, 2024 / 14:45 pm (CNA).Riley Gaines and more than a dozen other female athletes filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) on Thursday alleging that allowing men to compete in women's competitions denies women protections promised under Title IX. In a post on X, Gaines, a former swimmer with the University of Kentucky, announced the suit."It's official. I'm suing the NCAA along with 15 other collegiate athletes who have lost out on titles, records, and roster spots to men posing as women. The NCAA continues to explicitly violate the federal civil rights law of Title IX. About time someone did something about it," Gaines posted.The athletes' lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Atlanta, alleges t...
Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire, which announced on March 13, 2024, that its institute will partner with the University of St. Thomas, Houston, to launch a master's program in evangelization and culture this summer. / Credit: Word on FireCNA Staff, Mar 15, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).Word on Fire and the University of St. Thomas, Houston, announced on Wednesday that they are launching a master's program in evangelization and culture this summer.  Set to begin in June, the program will be an "accredited and academically rigorous" master of arts degree in evangelization and culture, said Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute.Founded by Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, Word on Fire is a nonprofit global media apostolate founded to evangelize and educate with an emphasis on contemporary media. The master's program is a natural outgrowth of the Word on Fire Institute, which offers live seminars,...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Christian's awareness of being sinful should be directly proportional to their "perception of the infinite love of God," Pope Francis said."The more we sense God's tenderness, the more we desire to be in full communion with him and the more evident the ugliness of evil in our lives becomes," the pope said in a speech written for priests and seminarians attending a course on confession offered by the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican tribunal that deals with matters of conscience.Priests whose main ministry is hearing confessions in the major basilicas of Rome also attended the audience March 8. The pope's text, which he did not read but was distributed to participants, focused on the Act of Contrition, the prayer that penitents recite during the sacrament of reconciliation.The awareness of God's love and mercy, the pope wrote, "pushes us to reflect on ourselves and our actions, and to convert.""Let's remember that God never tires of forgiving us and that we...
ROME (CNS) -- Catholics should not be afraid to bear their sins before God whose mercy is a model for the church's ministers, Pope Francis said. "Put this in your mind and heart: God never tires of forgiving," the pope said during a Lenten penance service March 8. He then asked the approximately 600 people gathered at the parish of St. Pius V in Rome to repeat his words with him: "God never tires of forgiving!"Before putting on a stole to personally hear confessions in the church, Pope Francis asked priests to "forgive always, like God who never tires of forgiving.""Don't ask too much" during confessions, he told the priests, instructing them to "forgive everything." Pope Francis attends a Lenten penance service March 8, 2024, at the parish of St. Pius V in Rome. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)"Let us always grant forgiveness to those who ask for it and help those who feel fear to confidently approach the sacrament of healing and joy," he said. "Let us put God's forgiveness back at the cent...
WASHINGTON - Each person's life is a unique gift and has immeasurable value from the moment of conception, said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, and it is for that precise reason that the Catholic Church cannot condone procedures such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) that result in a loss of life at a massive scale. In response to the growing attention to assisted reproductive technologies, Bishop Burbidge, as chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, spoke about the gift of life. Recognizing the desire to have children is good and given the challenges many couples face, Bishop Burbidge called for greater focus on ethical treatments addressing the root causes of infertility. Additionally, other approaches that may be sought by some couples seeking to expand their families, such as foster care and adoption, should be offered more support. The chairman's full statement follows:  "The national conversation in the news about laws relat...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Encouraging negotiations to end Russia's war on Ukraine, Pope Francis called for the warring sides to have the "courage of the white flag," a term usually associated with surrender.Asked in an interview whether Ukraine should surrender and if doing so would legitimize the actions of the stronger power, the pope said that "the strongest one is the one who looks at the situation, thinks about the people and has the courage of the white flag, and negotiates."The interview, with Italian-language Swiss broadcaster RSI, was recorded Feb. 2, but segments were released March 9 ahead of its full release scheduled for March 20.Several Italian media outlets quickly began circulating stories on the interview March 9 that incorrectly quoted the pope as saying that "Ukraine should have the courage to raise the white flag."Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office, told reporters March 9 that the image of the white flag -- a term used by the interviewer in posing the...
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