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null / Credit: ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 12, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) published a document to explain its concerns about the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval and deregulation of a chemical abortion pill, which is the subject of an ongoing U.S. Supreme Court case.A lawsuit filed by the pro-life Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine accuses the FDA of failing to properly study the adverse effects of the drug when approving its use and when eliminating certain safeguards, such as approving delivery via the mail and ending the requirement for an in-person doctor's visit before getting the prescription. "Potentially harmful drugs [will] be mailed directly to girls and women who did not see a medical professional in person and may be injured or killed without public knowledge of the cause" if the current FDA policies are allowed to remain in place, the bishops warned in a "Question and...
Pope Francis delivers his Angelus address on Feb. 11, 2024. / Vatican MediaVatican City, Feb 11, 2024 / 10:00 am (CNA).Pope Francis urged people to bring God's love to the sick and suffering through "concrete actions" in his Angelus address on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.Speaking on a rainy Sunday in Rome from the window of the Apostolic Palace to the crowd huddled under umbrellas below, the pope said that he wanted to express the closeness "of the entire Church to all those who are sick or frail.""Today, on the memorial of the Blessed Virgin of Lourdes, we celebrate World Day of the Sick, which this year draws attention to the importance of relationships in sickness," Pope Francis said on Feb. 11."We are all required to be a neighbor to those who suffer, to visit the sick as Jesus teaches us in the Gospel," he added.In his Angelus address, the pope asked people to reflect on what they have done to help the sick and the suffering: "In real terms, when was the last time I w...
Hungarian President Katalin Novak addresses a joint press conference with the Polish president after talks in Warsaw, Poland, on May 17, 2022. / Credit: Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty ImagesBudapest, Hungary, Feb 10, 2024 / 17:25 pm (CNA).Katalin Novák resigned as president of Hungary on Saturday amid protests over her decision to pardon a man last year who had been convicted of hiding a string of child sexual abuses in a state-run children's home. "I issued a pardon that caused bewilderment and unrest for many people," Novák said in a television address to the nation Feb. 10. "I made a mistake." A close ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Novák, 46, who is a Calvinist Protestant, has been a champion for many in the Catholic Church worldwide because of her strong support for pro-life, pro-family policies. A mother of three, she was the first female president in Hungary's history and the youngest person to ever hold the office. Her unexpected resignation deals a ...
Hungarian President Katalin Novak addresses a joint press conference with the Polish president after talks in Warsaw, Poland, on May 17, 2022. / Credit: Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty ImagesBudapest, Hungary, Feb 10, 2024 / 17:25 pm (CNA).Katalin Novák resigned as president of Hungary on Saturday amid protests over her decision to pardon a man last year who had been convicted of hiding a string of child sexual abuses in a state-run children's home. "I issued a pardon that caused bewilderment and unrest for many people," Novák said in a television address to the nation Feb. 10. "I made a mistake." A close ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Novák, 46, who is a Calvinist Protestant, has been a champion for many in the Catholic Church worldwide because of her strong support for pro-life, pro-family policies. A mother of three, she was the first female president in Hungary's history and the youngest person to ever hold the office. Her unexpected resignation deals a ...
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone (left) and Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph Bishop James Johnston (right) made a friendly Super Bowl wager on "EWTN News in Depth" with Montse Alvarado on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. / Credit: EWTN NewsCNA Staff, Feb 10, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).It's a tradition for the Catholic bishops from the two cities sending teams to the Super Bowl to make a friendly wager before the big game. With the Kansas City Chiefs back in their fourth Super Bowl in five years and the San Francisco 49ers making their first appearance since 2020, Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph Bishop James Johnston and San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone made their friendly wager on "EWTN News in Depth" with Montse Alvarado on Friday. "I think we've got a good one. And the archbishop and I have agreed that it's going to be a two-parter if we lose," Johnston said. "If the Kansas City Chiefs lose, which is highly unlikely, but if we should, I'll be sendi...
The Lourdes Grotto in France. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNALourdes, France, Feb 10, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).More than 7,000 people have reported that they experienced a physical healing because of a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France, but what about the millions more who come to the Lourdes Grotto and leave without receiving a miraculous physical healing?This was the case for a 54-year-old man who came to Lourdes from England. Doctors had given him three months to live and he arrived at the Marian shrine with his wife and two children in his last month. When he arrived, he told the volunteers at the shrine: "I want to be cured" and "I have to live!" The volunteers walked with the man and his family throughout their pilgrimage to Lourdes, bringing him to the Eucharistic procession, encouraging his family to pray together at the baths, and inviting him to make a confession."But I haven't made my confession for 25 years," he objected at first. ...
null / Credit: 271 EAK MOTO/ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, Feb 9, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA).Any day of the year more than 50 million people are enslaved in the world according to the latest estimate published in a joint report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the International Labor Organization (ILO), and Walk Free, a human rights group that seeks the eradication of modern slavery in all its forms. Many of the people affected by trafficking are in Latin America, where 90% of the victims are women, especially girls, destined for sexual exploitation and where many of the countless migrants who cross the continent are prey for human traffickers and those facilitating illegal immigration.The Catholic Church dedicated Thursday as a Day of Prayer and Reflection against Human Trafficking.Fifty million people in servitude means that 1 out of every 150 people in the world is enslaved. Of those, 35% are boys and girls, according to the 2022 Global Report of the Uni...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks in front of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., on June 9, 2022. / Screenshot taken from Twitter video by Ford FischerCNA Staff, Feb 9, 2024 / 18:40 pm (CNA).Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is demanding that the remains of five late-term aborted babies in Washington, D.C., not be discarded before an autopsy is done to determine whether federal law was violated by the abortionist responsible for their deaths."To be clear, the remains of these five children are critical evidence in the congressional oversight that the Subcommittee on the Constitution will conduct in the imminent future," Cruz said in his Feb. 8 letter, addressed to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Francisco Diaz, and D.C. Police Chief Pamela A. Smith."Should the D.C. medical examiner's office decide not to conduct timely autopsies, or preserve the bodies of these babies for outside examination, the Senate Judiciary Committee will have no choice but...
Pope Francis meets with Argentine pilgrims on Feb. 9, 2024, ahead of the historic canonization of the county's first female saint on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Feb 9, 2024 / 11:41 am (CNA).Pope Francis met with Argentine pilgrims on Friday morning ahead of the historic canonization of the county's first female saint on Sunday.During his address, Pope Francis presented Blessed María Antonia of St. Joseph de Paz y Figueroa, more affectionately known as "Mama Antula," as an example of "charity" and "an inspiration that revives 'the option for the last, for those that society discards.'"The saint's example and legacy is especially important for us today "in the midst of this society that runs the risk of forgetting that 'radical individualism is the most difficult virus to defeat. A virus that deceives. It makes us believe that everything consists of giving free rein to one's own ambitions,'" the pope said, quoting from his encyclical Fratelli Tutt...
Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral in Montreal, Canada. / Credit: Thomas Ledl via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)Vancouver, Canada, Feb 9, 2024 / 14:30 pm (CNA).In what could prove to be a landmark case for religious and conscience rights in Canada, Montreal's Archbishop Christian Lépine has taken on the attorney general of Quebec.In an appeal for judicial review submitted to the Quebec Superior Court on Feb. 5, Lépine asked for an immediate stay of the application of an amendment to the Act Respecting End-of-Life Care that requires palliative care hospices to offer medical assistance in dying (MAID).The June 2023 amendment specifies that "no palliative care hospice may exclude medical aid in dying from the care they offer."The palliative care center that Lépine hopes to shield is the St. Raphael Palliative Care Home and Day Centre in Montreal, but the appeal raises larger questions about the future of the collaborative charitable work of faith communities unable to act according to t...
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