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Members of the Houston-based Catholic Youth for Life carry their flag, alongside the state flag, at the 2024 Texas March for Life. / Credit: Catholic Youth for LifeCNA Newsroom, Jan 31, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).With regulation of abortion expected to be on the ballot this year in various states, pro-life groups across the country are gearing up for major marches, expected to bring thousands to their respective state capitals to stand up for life. March for Life President Jeanne Mancini told CNA that her group, which organizes the annual national March for Life, is "laser focused" on the "growth of the state march initiative this year." While the National March for Life in Washington D.C. made headlines for drawing an estimated 100,000 pro-lifers to the nation's capital on Jan. 19, the group's emphasis on state marches highlights the renewed importance of pro-life battles in individual states since the overturn of Roe v. Wade. "Each call to action is unique depending...
Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the Nigerian Diocese of Makurdi in Benue state at a breakfast at Capitol Hill organized by Aid to the Church in Need on Jan. 30, 2024. / Credit: Peter Pinedo/CNAWashington D.C., Jan 30, 2024 / 16:00 pm (CNA).Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of Nigeria shared details of the worsening persecution of Christians in Nigeria, accusing members of the government there of being complicit in what he called a Christian "genocide" and an erasure of the Christian presence from the country.Anagbe, who leads the Makurdi Diocese, warned that if greater action is not taken he believes the Christian population, which currently numbers over 86 million, roughly half of the total Nigerian populace, could disappear entirely in the next few decades.Though the Nigerian Christian population is massive and is known as having some of the most devoted faithful in the world, Anagbe said the Christian presence in Nigeria is "gradually and systematically" being reduced by radical Isla...
Justice Christine Donohue of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered that the case, which was previously dismissed, be reargued before the state's Commonwealth Court. / Credit: Public Domain|WikimediaCNA Staff, Jan 30, 2024 / 17:05 pm (CNA).The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on Monday revived a 2019 lawsuit brought by a number of abortion providers in the state that challenges, on discrimination grounds, a longtime state law barring public funding for most abortions. In a 219-page ruling Jan. 29, the state high court reversed an earlier dismissal of the lawsuit, sending it back to the Commonwealth Court, one of the state's two appellate courts. At issue is Pennsylvania's Abortion Control Act, in place since the 1980s, which restricts the use of state and federal funds for abortion except "when necessary to avert the death of the mother" or in cases of rape or incest. The abortion providers bringing the lawsuit had argued, among other things, that Pennsylv...
Daniel Ortega. / Credit: Harold Escalona / ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, Jan 30, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).Despite being persecuted by Daniel Ortega's regime for years, "the Church is still alive in Nicaragua," a priest from the country told ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner. The cleric, who prefers to remain anonymous for security reasons, said that "parish communities and families continue to suffer from the expulsion of their pastors and relatives."He lamented that "added to this suffering is that of the more than 90 political prisoners, among them many lay collaborators with the Catholic Church in the country," who are imprisoned and subjected to continuous psychological torture."They have exiled our pastors, they have frozen parish and diocesan money, but the Church in Nicaragua is still alive and keeps going," he said.For the Nicaraguan priest, this is due to the fact that "God is the one who directs the Church, with the power of his Spirit and Mary Immacul...
null / Credit: Mehdi Kasumov/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Jan 30, 2024 / 13:53 pm (CNA).The Catholic University of America has dismissed one of its professors for bringing an abortion advocate to class to speak to students.A Tuesday email from the school's president, Peter Kilpatrick, obtained by CNA said that the school began an investigation last week after learning of reports of an abortion advocate being invited to a class. The president said the school also learned that a student had an audio recording of the class in question.The Daily Signal, which obtained and released a copy of the recording last week, identified the psychology professor as Melissa Goldberg."Now that we have clear evidence that the content of the class did not align with our mission and identity, we have now terminated our contract with the professor who invited the speaker," Kilpatrick wrote on Tuesday. Goldberg's faculty page was no longer available on the university website as of Tuesday afternoon."A...
Father Marcel Taillon, 58, has been appointed the new interim vocations director for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA. / Credit: Father Marcel TaillonCNA Staff, Jan 30, 2024 / 14:40 pm (CNA).The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, has appointed a new interim vocations director to focus on recruiting more Catholic chaplains to address the ongoing shortage of priests.Father Marcel Taillon, the new vocations director, told CNA Tuesday that after 17 years serving at St. Thomas More Parish in Narragansett, Rhode Island, he feels "called" to serve in his new role."I feel called to it. I do. I love priesthood. I love soldiers. I love seminarians. I love my life. I'm happy here, but I feel like I can hopefully bring something and bring some energy and some support to these guys," Taillon said. Taillon, 58, has served as the vocations director for the Diocese of Providence and as the director of spiritual formation at Our Lady of Providence Seminary. His paris...
The cross of the German "Synodal Way." / Credit: Maximilian von Lachner/Synodaler WegCNA Newsroom, Jan 30, 2024 / 10:52 am (CNA).In light of a Protestant abuse study unveiled in Germany, a Catholic lay group has called into doubt the "persistent narrative of the Synodal Way attributing systemic causes of abuse to specifically Catholic factors."Published on Jan. 25, the ForuM study identified 1,259 accused individuals and 2,174 survivors of abuse since 1946 within the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), according to a report by CNA Deutsch, CNA's German-language news partner. This study's findings starkly contrast with the claims of an "alleged Catholic-specific dimension of sexual abuse," stated "Neuer Anfang," a German lay group critical of the Synodal Way.The German Synodal Way, which voted for women's ordination and transgender ideology, among other issues, linked its resolutions to the MHG Study, an investigation of clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Germany.H...
null / Credit: liseykina/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Jan 30, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA).The fertility rate in Texas rose by a statistically significant amount in the wake of the state's pro-life laws, a University of Houston study has found. Texas, which prohibits abortion except in the case of medical emergencies, was among the numerous states with "trigger laws" in place that went into effect upon the Supreme Court's repeal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. The state also enacted a "heartbeat" law that went into effect in 2021 and survived numerous legal challenges before Roe's repeal. The law effectively prohibited abortion after six weeks of gestation.A study out of the University of Houston's Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality found this month that the state's fertility rate rose markedly after the heartbeat ban went into effect. The "2022 overall fertility rate rose 2% in Texas" after the heartbeat bill, the researchers said in their stu...
null / ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 29, 2024 / 14:10 pm (CNA).A highly publicized study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that estimated there have been 64,565 pregnancies resulting from rape in states with near-total abortion bans has raised questions about its methodology since its publication last week.The study's lead researcher was Planned Parenthood of Montana's medical director, Dr. Samuel Dickman. According to the study, it was conducted "to assess how abortion bans affected survivors of rape." Yet, the research did not use any data about rapes, pregnancies, or pregnancies from rapes collected during the times in which the pro-life laws were in effect."To our knowledge, no recent reliable state-level data on completed vaginal rapes … are available," the authors explained.The researchers instead used surveys from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2016 to 2017 to estimate how many rapes were likely to ha...
Pope Francis meets with members of the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. / Credit: Vatican MediaWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 29, 2024 / 14:40 pm (CNA).Pope Francis suggested that the opposition to the Vatican's approval of nonliturgical blessings for same-sex couples mostly comes from "small ideological groups" with the exception of Africa, which he said is "a special case.""Those who vehemently protest belong to small ideological groups," Francis said in an interview on Monday with the Italian newspaper La Stampa, according to an English translation from the Church-run Vatican News. Regarding the bishops in Africa, who have expressed some of the strongest criticisms of such blessings, the pontiff said they are "a special case" because "for them, homosexuality is something 'ugly' from a cultural point of view; they do not tolerate it."The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), led by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández...
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