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Month: January 2023

The Dispatch

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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