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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...
Heritage Foundation researcher Emma Waters speaks to Prudence Robertson on "EWTN Pro-Life Weekly," Feb. 29, 2024. / Credit: "EWTN Pro-Life Weekly"CNA Staff, Mar 2, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).A Catholic moral theologian this week warned that in vitro fertilization (IVF) "separates the things that God wanted to be together" while another expert spoke out against the "inhumane" treatment of the hundreds of thousands of human embryos produced by IVF. The Alabama Supreme Court has sparked a national debate on the ethics surrounding IVF following the court's recent decision that ruled embryos are considered children under state law."EWTN Pro-Life Weekly" anchor Prudence Robertson spoke to Emma Waters, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation, about the ethical implications of IVF and its effects on marriage and society."In a normal in vitro fertilization process, clinicians will create anywhere between 15 to 20 embryos at a time," Waters explained.Embryos are then tested for genetic i...
A canon of Saint Peter elevates the relic of the Holy Lance one last time before returning it to its chapel on Feb. 24, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN VaticanVatican City, Mar 1, 2024 / 12:37 pm (CNA).The Holy Lance, also known as the Lance of Longinus, holds a significant place in Christian tradition as the weapon believed to have pierced the side of Jesus during his crucifixion. Tradition holds that the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica has the jealous custody of a relic that is part of the Holy Lance. The Gospel of John provides the sole biblical reference to this event, recounting that a Roman soldier named Longinus, on the eve of the Sabbath, ensured Jesus' death by piercing him in the side with a lance. This act, as described in John 19:34, has sparked centuries of reverence and fascination across Europe and inside the Vatican.Ministers process to the high altar, with the statue of St. Longinus in the background, on Feb. 24, 2024. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN VaticanA...
The superior general of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), Father Andrzej Komorowski, met with Pope Francis on Feb. 29, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Pater Stefan Reiner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Mar 1, 2024 / 13:45 pm (CNA).Pope Francis met with the superior general of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) on Thursday, confirming that restrictions on the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass don't apply to the order.The private meeting between the pope and Father Andrzej Komorowski, who was accompanied by two priests from his order, came at the invitation of Pope Francis and followed a request from the FSSP.According to a press release from the FSSP, the meeting was an opportunity to showcase "deep gratitude to the Holy Father" and to discuss the "liturgical specificity of the Fraternity of St. Peter." The FSSP was established on July 18, 1988, as a society of apostolic life of pontifical right by the...
null / Credit: Ken Wolter/Shutterstock and Ceri Breeze/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 1, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA).CVS and Walgreens, the two largest pharmacy chains in the country, announced on Friday that they will begin selling the abortion pill mifepristone this month.Martin Maloney, a media representative for Walgreens, told CNA that the chain would begin distributing the pills within the next week in "select locations" in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California, and Illinois.Walgreens has announced its decision to distribute the pills following the completion of the FDA certification process. The pills will not be delivered via mail, according to spokesperson Maloney.CVS, meanwhile, said it will begin selling abortion pills in the next few weeks, the Associated Press reported.Chemical abortions are committed via a two-pill regimen consisting of the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol. This type of abortion works by cutting off the nutrients necessary for ...
Pope Francis meets with members of the French-based academic organization Research and Anthropology of Vocations Institute on March 1, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Mar 1, 2024 / 10:00 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Friday morning gave an address on the importance of building a culture that protects human and Christians vocations, things he suggested were at risk due to contemporary cultural challenges including gender ideology. "It is very important that there is this meeting, this meeting between men and women, because today the ugliest danger is gender ideology, which cancels out differences," the pope said during an audience with members of the French-based academic organization Research and Anthropology of Vocations Institute (CRAV).Gender ideology, which seeks to blur differences between men and women through movements such as transgenderism, "makes everything the same," Francis said."Erasing differences is erasing humanity. Man and woman, how...
The Alabama State House, located in Montgomery, Alabama. / Credit: Chris Pruitt|Wikimedia|CC BY-SA 3.0Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 29, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA).The Alabama House overwhelmingly approved a bill on Thursday that grants immunity to in vitro fertilization (IVF) providers in cases of death or injury to unborn babies during the IVF process. The Republican-majority House passed the bill in a 94-6 vote just a week after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that unborn babies conceived through IVF are human children protected under the state's Wrongful Death of a Minor Act.Introduced by Republican state Reps. Terri Collins and David Faulkner, the bill specifically bypasses the court's reading of the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act and says that "no action, suit, or criminal prosecution shall be brought or maintained against any individual or entity providing goods or services related to in vitro fertilization."IVF is a fertility treatment in which doctors fuse sperm and egg...
In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address at the Gostiny Dvor conference center in central Moscow on Feb. 29, 2024. / Credit: GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesCNA Staff, Feb 29, 2024 / 16:05 pm (CNA).Russian President Vladimir Putin in a speech on Thursday cautioned that any Western military intervention in support of Ukraine could potentially lead to nuclear conflict."[The West] must understand that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory," Putin, who is widely expected to hold onto power in an upcoming election, said in a Feb. 29 speech to Russia's Federal Assembly. Warning of "tragic consequences" if NATO forces were ever deployed to Ukraine, Putin continued, as reported by the Washington Post: "All this really threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons and the destruction of civilization. Don't they get that? ... [Rus...
President Joe Biden tells EWTN News' Owen Jensen he disagrees with the Catholic Church's position on IVF, Feb. 29, 2024. / Credit: EWTN NewsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 29, 2024 / 16:35 pm (CNA).President Joe Biden expressed today his disagreement with the Catholic Church's position that in vitro fertilization (IVF) is immoral because it kills countless unborn human babies.As the controversy continues after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling established the personhood of unborn babies conceived through IVF, Biden was asked by EWTN White House correspondent Owen Jensen on Thursday what he thought about the Church's position on the issue. "The Catholic Church says IVF is immoral and wrong because it destroys countless human embryos. What do you say to that?" Jensen asked."I don't agree with that position," Biden responded before walking away.As President Joe Biden, who is Catholic, was headed to the Texas southern border, White House Correspondent @owentjensen asked...
The Apostolic Nunciature of Poland has revealed further information regarding the resignation of Polish Archbishop Andrzej Dziega, indicating that he stepped down due to alleged negligence in overseeing sexual abuse claims. / Credit: Redaktor01|Wikimedia|GFDLCNA Staff, Feb 29, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).The Apostolic Nunciature of Poland has revealed further information regarding the resignation of Polish Archbishop Andrzej Dziega, indicating that he stepped down due to alleged negligence in overseeing sexual abuse claims.The Holy Father accepted Dziega's resignation last week. Neither the nunciature nor the Vatican had immediately given a reason for his departure. The prelate, meanwhile, had published a two-page resignation letter on Feb. 24 in which he cited a "radical weakening of my condition." In the letter, he apologized to his "brother priests," saying: "If my weaknesses, including incomplete understanding of specific circumstances, and sometimes even my ordinary hu...
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