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  • [ May 7, 2026 ] U.S. bishops recount year since Pope Leo XIV’s election News Briefs
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Pope Francis receives phone call during general audience

May 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis takes a telephone call during the May 17 General Audience. / Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News

Vatican City, May 17, 2023 / 09:18 am (CNA).
To the surprise of the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis briefly interrupted his Wed… […]

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Abuse victims share ‘wounded heart’ with Pope Francis after bike trek from Germany

May 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis greeted victims of sexual abuse by members of the Church after the general audience on May 17, 2023. The victims arrived in Rome after making a pilgrimage by bicycle from Munich, Germany. / Archdiocese of Munich and Freising

Rome N… […]

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Pope Francis: Share the Gospel with zeal like St. Francis Xavier

May 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis at his general audience on May 17, 2023 (left) and a painting of St. Francis Xavier in the Church of the Gesù in Rome (right). / Daniel Ibanez/Creative Commons

Vatican City, May 17, 2023 / 04:35 am (CNA).
In a world in which there … […]

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Blaze set at iconic Mexican church; Eucharist stolen from another

May 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Santiaguito Church in Mexico sustained fire damage, according to a May 15, 2023, statement by the Diocese of Irapuato in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. / Credit: Facebook of Bishop Enrique Díaz Díaz of Irapuato

ACI Prensa Staff, May 16, 2023 … […]

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Congress should withhold funds from a politicized FBI, Chairman Jim Jordan says

May 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

An FBI agent stands outside the Houck residence in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 23, 2022. Mark Houck was arrested that day and charged with assaulting a Planned Parenthood escort outside an Philadelphia abortion clinic on Oct. 13, 2021…. […]

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Catholic bishops to FDA: Don’t make ‘minipill’ contraceptive over-the-counter

May 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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Denver, Colo., May 16, 2023 / 14:10 pm (CNA).
Federal regulators with the Food and Drug Administration should reject proposed over-the-counter use of the progestin-only “minipill” contraceptive, the U.S. bishops have… […]

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Mutilated animals left on pro-life pregnancy center’s property in Orlando

May 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

JMJ Pregnancy Center in Orlando, Florida / Photo courtesy of Bob Perron

Boston, Mass., May 16, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
The FBI and local police have opened an investigation after three mutilated animals were left on the property of a pro-life pr… […]

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Caritas Internationalis elects Alistair Dutton as its new secretary general

May 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Caritas Internationalis elected Alistair Dutton as its new secretary general on May 15, 2023, in Rome. He has been the chief executive of Caritas Scotland. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, May 16, 2023 / 09:45 am (CNA).
Six months after Pope … […]

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France’s Catholic clergy to carry ID cards proving they are in good standing

May 16, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Church of the Sacred Heart in Bordeaux, France. / Credit: Olivier432 – Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Denver Newsroom, May 16, 2023 / 09:05 am (CNA).
Catholic clergy in France will soon carry a standardized identification card linked to a nat… […]

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Ohio priest convicted of sexual abuse of minors

May 15, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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Washington D.C., May 15, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
Parish priest Michael Zacharias, 56, was convicted on five counts of sex trafficking by a federal jury in the Northern District of Ohio last Friday.Za… […]

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