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  • [ May 5, 2026 ] Irish bishop: Truth about abortion is ‘it not only kills babies, it wounds women’ News Briefs
  • [ May 5, 2026 ] Pope Leo XIV says violence is a last resort, rejects Trump’s claim about supporting nuclear weapons News Briefs
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  • [ May 5, 2026 ] Outrage grows over alleged bulldozing of Catholic monastery and school in Lebanon News Briefs
  • [ May 5, 2026 ] Legionaries leader rebuilds vocation after Maciel scandal: Pain ‘opened our eyes’ News Briefs

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May 8, 2024 CWR Staff 17

Politicizing Theology – “It is important to diagnose the current cultural malaise not through the prism of categories such as capitalism and communism, right and left, but the underpinning metaphysical ideologies of materialism and relativism.” […]

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Transparently bad faith: Answering “LGBTQ” critics of Dignitas Infinita

May 7, 2024 Monica Migliorino Miller 24

I have been very sad since April 8, 2024, when the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith promulgated Dignitas Infinita, the Declaration on Human Dignity. I have felt the immense grief among LGBTQ people […]

The Dispatch

A turn to sanity? SCOTUS upholds Idaho law limiting “transitioning”

May 7, 2024 Charles J. Russo 1

Amid ongoing controversy over “gender affirming” care for minors experiencing gender dysphoria wishing to transition, a divided Supreme Court recently largely upheld Idaho’s Vulnerable Child Protection Act (VCPA). The VCPA, applicable to children and vulnerable adults, bans […]

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Judge blocks referendum to enshrine abortion in New York Constitution; state to appeal

May 7, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks to the media on May 26, 2022, in New York City. / Credit: Shutterstock

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 7, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
A New York Supreme Court judge ruled that a referendum to enshrine a … […]

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Pope Francis welcomes Vatican’s new Swiss Guard recruits

May 7, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

New Swiss Guards prepare to be sworn in on May 6, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Elizabeth Alva/EWTN

ACI Prensa Staff, May 7, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis received the Vatican’s Swiss Guard Corps on the occasion of the swearing-in of th… […]

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U.S. abortion law is ‘far more permissive than the vast majority of the world’

May 7, 2024 Catholic News Agency 14

Demonstrators hold pro-life placards during an anti-abortion protest in Paris on Jan. 16, 2022. Abortion in France is legal until 14 weeks after conception. / Credit: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 7, 20… […]

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Conference in Rome addresses dangers of AI and child pornography

May 7, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

In 2023 there were more than 275,000 child pornography websites on the internet, with approximately 11,000 photos generated by AI in just one month. / Credit: Kelly Sikkema/Unsplash

ACI Prensa Staff, May 7, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
“What dangers … […]

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Florida sues Biden administration over rule requiring ‘dangerous, irreversible’ gender procedures

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis listens as Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody speaks during a press conference at the Broward County Courthouse on Aug. 18, 2022, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. / Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

CNA Staff, May 7, 2024… […]

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Federal grant fund for security at houses of worship boosted by $400 million

May 7, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. / Credit: Albert H. Teich/Shutterstock

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 7, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA).
A federal grant program that provides security funding for houses of worship and other nonprofits will receive… […]

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Minnesota bishops urge opposition to ‘Equal Rights Amendment’

May 7, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Bishop Robert Barron. CNA file photo. / null

CNA Staff, May 7, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis this week urged Catholics to join a rally to oppose a proposed constitutional amendment that they say “fails to pr… […]

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