More than 10,000 unborn babies are alive today because of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a new report by a pro-abortion group suggests. Society of Family Planning’s #WeCount initiative reported on Friday that there were 5,270 fewer abortions in July and 5,400 fewer in August after the court’s June 24 ruling Read more
Eighty-seven-year-old Father John Bok was a physics teacher earlier in his life. Still, he just can’t wrap his head around the physics of how another car hurdled his own on his way to celebrate Sunday Mass in October. “It’s a miracle,” the Franciscan priest told CNA Tuesday of the near-death experience. Now retired — although Read more
The Myanmar junta’s Ministry of Health has fired 557 government-employed doctors who left their jobs to protest against the military government, revoking their licences at a time when medical professionals are in short supply, sources in the country’s medical community said on Tuesday, citing an official list. The striking doctors joined other government workers in Read more
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov said his government is willing to talk with Pope Francis, the United States, and France to find a solution to the war in Ukraine. “We are willing to discuss all this (the situation in Ukraine) with the Americans, with the French, and with the pontiff,” Peskov said during a daily Read more
One of the five commissioners investigating historical abuse in care has left the inquiry just eight months before it is expected to wrap up and will not be replaced. Julia Steenson was appointed to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry in June 2020, following the resignation of Sir Anand Satyanand as its chair. Read more
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recently overturned the ruling of a French court that had fined and issued a jail sentence to a feminist who interrupted a Roman Catholic church service and “aborted” Jesus on the altar while topless. Eloïse Bouton was bare-breasted and painted in pro-choice slogans all over her body when, Read more
An outcry over the contemporary Māori design of the new Te Whare Hononga at the Taranaki Cathedral site in New Plymouth has shocked its Dean. The building has come under fire for being out of sync with St Mary’s – New Zealand’s oldest stone church built in 1846 – and the recently-restored colonial-era vicarage. Construction Read more
Monsignor Stephen Rossetti, a 71-year-old Catholic priest, started a TikTok channel last month when it came to his attention that the popular social media platform was introducing kids to something other than harmless videos of lip-syncing, viral dance challenges, and funny things caught on home security cameras. As the chief exorcist of the Archdiocese of Read more
Church leaders expressed happiness as Pakistan was taken off a global money laundering watchlist. A move they hope will ease the financial crunch in the development and relief sector of the beleaguered nation. In an interfaith press conference held on 24 October, Sebastian Shaw of Lahore congratulated the whole nation. He hoped the development would help Read more
The Center for Action and Contemplation announced that founder Richard Rohr, OFM, is retiring from his roles as Dean of the Center’s Core Faculty and as a voting member on its board of directors. In a letter emailed to friends and obtained by America, Father Rohr explained that for some time now, he has been Read more