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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...
Pope Francis engages with a youngster at the inauguration of the 95th Judicial Year of the Vatican City State on Saturday, March 2, 2024. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Mar 2, 2024 / 10:42 am (CNA).Pope Francis presided over the inauguration of the 95th Judicial Year of the Vatican City State on Saturday morning, however he delegated the task of reading the speech to an aide due to bronchitis. "I thank you all. I have prepared a speech, but you can hear I am unable to read it because of bronchitis," a visibly fatigued and hoarse sounding Francis said to the Vatican's magistrates gathered in the Hall of Blessings. The 87-year-old pontiff canceled his public engagements last Saturday and Monday due to a "mild-flu." After his remarks at the general audience on Wednesday, which were also read by Monsignor Ciampanelli, the pope went to Rome's Gemelli Isola Tiberina Hospital for "diagnostic tests." On Saturday, however, the pope maintained a full schedule, includ...
St. Michael's Media founder and CEO Michael Voris during an interview for local television news before the "Bishops Enough Is Enough" rally at the MECU Pavilion November 16, 2021 in Baltimore, Maryland. / Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 2, 2024 / 14:22 pm (CNA).Church Militant, the controversial Catholic media outlet that has for years maintained a reputation for combative and antagonistic coverage of Catholic figures and issues, following a $500,000 defamation judgment against it. Boston-based law firm Todd & Weld said in a press release this week that Church Militant had "agreed to the entry of a judgment against it in the amount of $500,000" in a defamation lawsuit brought by Father Georges de Laire, the judicial vicar of the Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire. The media outlet had run an article in 2019 titled "NH Vicar Changes Dogma Into Heresy," one in which the author, canonist Marc Balestrieri, claimed to "have ta...
Pope Francis poses with a woman and three children during a lunch in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall for over 1,000 poor and economically disadvantaged people on Nov. 19, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media.Vatican City, Mar 2, 2024 / 10:16 am (CNA).Pope Francis has issued a message to the world's children in anticipation of the Church's first-ever World Children's Day, which will take place in Rome from May 25-26, reminding them that the key to happiness lies in cultivating a prayer life and personal relationship with Christ, which in turn forms the basis of broader social action. "If we really want to be happy, we need to pray, to pray a lot, to pray every day, because prayer connects us directly to God. Prayer fills our hearts with light and warmth; it helps us to do everything with confidence and peace of mind," the pope wrote in his March 2 letter addressed to the world's children. The pope followed up this reflection, by asking children to pray the Lord's Prayer "ever...
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