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Month: January 2023

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Why didn’t Jesus consider these inclusive ideas?

January 31, 2023 Thomas M. Doran 19

In an age when so many have raised inclusivity to the status of a Commandment, I have been pondering how Jesus might have better incorporated this priority into his teachings, priorities, and disciples. We ought […]

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Rubio bill would block Biden from declaring public health emergency to expand abortion

January 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Sen. Marco Rubio Credit: Christopher Halloran/Shutterstock / null

Washington D.C., Jan 31, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio introduced a bill that would prohibit the executive branch from expanding abortion access throug… […]

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Spanish bishop: Reference to UN’s Agenda 2030 on World Youth Day website was ‘a mistake’

January 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Logos of WYD Lisbon 2023 and the 2030 Agenda. / Credit; WYD and U.N.

CNA Newsroom, Jan 31, 2023 / 15:11 pm (CNA).
The bishop of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, José Ignacio Munilla, called the reference to the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 on the Wor… […]

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Mexico priest recounts ‘amazing’ confession of accident victim he stopped to help

January 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

One car was damaged after an accident on a road in Mexico, witnessed by Father Salvador Nuño, who stopped to ask if the man in the car needed help. The man made a surprising request: “I want to confess.” / Credit: Father Salvador Nuño/Facebook

… […]

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The little-known story of when the Masons tried to kill Don Bosco

January 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

St. John Bosco. / Credit: Public Domain

CNA Newsroom, Jan 31, 2023 / 14:25 pm (CNA).
History notes how much the Freemasons hated St. John Bosco, the founder of the Salesians — whose feast the Church celebrates on Jan. 31 — but less known are th… […]

The Dispatch

Utah bans transgender surgery for minors, places hold on hormone drugs

January 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 5

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 31, 2023 / 11:50 am (CNA).
Transgender surgery for minors is now prohibited in Utah and the prescription of transgender medicine for minors has temporarily been placed on … […]

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Spanish bishops lament low participation in Synod on Synodality, especially by young people

January 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Materials from the Synodal Final Assembly in Spain. / Credit: Spanish Episcopal Conference

CNA Newsroom, Jan 31, 2023 / 11:30 am (CNA).
The Spanish bishops consider “synodality to be advancing in our Church” although they report low participati… […]

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‘Hands off Africa!’ Pope Francis says in Democratic Republic of Congo

January 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis is greeted at the N’Dolo Airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Jan. 31, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Jan 31, 2023 / 11:11 am (CNA).
In his first speech in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, Pope F… […]

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Minnesota Senate sends far-reaching abortion bill to governor’s desk

January 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

The Cathedral of Saint Paul in Saint Paul, Minnesota. / Sam Wagner/Shutterstock.

St. Louis, Mo., Jan 31, 2023 / 09:40 am (CNA).
The state Senate of Minnesota on Saturday morning narrowly passed a bill that would allow abortions in the state thr… […]

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Pope Francis meets Order of Malta as it turns ‘a very important page of history’

January 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis meets with the Order of Malta on Jan. 30, 2023, as the sovereign state and religious order turned a new page in its history. / Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Jan 31, 2023 / 09:15 am (CNA).
Pope Francis met with the Order of Malta on … […]

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