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null / ShutterstockCNA Staff, Mar 6, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA).Sixteen Republican attorneys general are threatening legal action against YouTube and its parent company Google for placing a 'misleading' label on pro-life videos.Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird led the effort to send a letter to Google executive Neal Mohan on Monday, regarding labels placed on pro-life videos on the social media platform. The letter said the notices violate the First Amendment and spread "false" information about abortion that "minimizes and downplays some of the serious risks of abortion drugs," potentially endangering women's lives.The letter cites an example of a pro-life video on YouTube about chemical abortion posted by Alliance Defending Freedom in February. Under the video a notice appears with the title, "Abortion health information." The message says that surgical and chemical abortion are procedures "to end a pregnancy" done "by a licensed healthcare professional."YouTube posts simila...
The small group of Germans peacefully praying for an end to abortion were accosted by some 20 assailants wearing hoodies who shouted in their faces, harassing them, mocking them, insulting them, provoking them and intimidating them with aggressive behavior. / Credit: 40 Days for Life FrankfurtLima Newsroom, Mar 6, 2024 / 18:32 pm (CNA).Tomislav Cunovic, lawyer and executive director of 40 Days for Life International, denounced the March 1 attack by abortion activists on a group of people peacefully praying for an end to abortion in Frankfurt, Germany.In a March 3 statement Cunovic said the attack was carried out by about 20 individuals "from the extreme left" who harassed, threatened, and insulted a group of people who were praying the Rosary about 100 feet from the facilities of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in the Palmengarten area, a distance established by law for this type of peaceful demonstration."Although this arrangement also respects the ...
Pope Francis appeared in a wheelchair at his general audience on Feb. 28, 2024. / Credit: Vatican MediaRome Newsroom, Mar 6, 2024 / 11:40 am (CNA).Pope Francis this week used his general audience to focus on the vice of pride, with the Holy Father for the second consecutive week relying on an aide to read his remarks."Today's catechesis will be read by a monsignor," the pope said on Wednesday, "because I still have a cold and can't read well."The pope delivered the Angelus address from the window of the Apostolic Palace the prior two Sundays. He has relied on aides to read his public addresses since the Vatican announced he was suffering from "mild flu" symptoms in late February.The pope's catechesis on Wednesday focused on the vice of pride, which the Holy Father argued was the "great queen" of all the vices."Those who give in to this vice are far from God, and the correction of this evil requires time and effort, more than any other battle to which the Christian is called."Po...
Baltimore, Maryland / Sean Pavone/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 6, 2024 / 14:42 pm (CNA).Lawmakers in Maryland this week halted the advancement of a proposal to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state, the latest instance in recent years of such a proposal failing to advance in Maryland amid opposition from Catholic groups. HB933, also known as the End-of-Life Option Act (The Honorable Elijah E. Cummings and the Honorable Shane E. Pendergrass Act), would have legalized physician-assisted suicide for certain patients with terminal illnesses who went though a requesting procedure. The bill failed to move out of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee in the Maryland General Assembly March 1. The Maryland Catholic Conference (MCC), the public policy arm of the state's Catholic bishops as well as the Archdiocese of Washington and the Diocese of Wilmington, reported that the bill was only "one to two votes short" on the 11-member committee that was ...
The Redemptor Hominis chapel of the National Shrine of St. John Paul II in Washington, D.C., is decorated with mosaics by Father Marko Rupnik. / Credit: Lawrence OP|Flickr|CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 6, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).In light of several serious accusations of abuse against Catholic artist Father Marko Rupnik, the Knights of Columbus told CNA that they "are carefully considering the best course of action" concerning the priest's mosaics that adorn the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C. With the assistance of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy and a small, lay staff, the Knights of Columbus own and operate the St. John Paul II National Shrine, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors and pilgrims from across the country and world. Calls to remove the priest's artwork from places of worship have been mounting around the world. Yet, extensive Rupnik artwork in the John Paul II Shrine's two chapels...
A man removes red spray paint from a statue of the Blessed Mother at the Church of the Ascension in Overland Park, Kansas. / Kathryn White/The LeavenAnn Arbor, Michigan, Mar 6, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).In a message to parishioners, Father Ed Cimbala, pastor of St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Parish in New York City, revealed that overnight on March 3 intruders entered his rectory and office, wrecking both while he was sleeping in an attack that has raised questions about the vandals' motivations.Apparently nothing was stolen in the intrusion. Cimbala wrote: "The detective identified the incident as a potential hate crime as there was no evidence that the intruder was looking for money." The incident appears to track with others in which the vandals' main purpose appears to be to intimidate Catholics and wound their religious sensibilities.Hostility and vandalism against churches, especially Catholic places of worship, have increased by several multiples since 2018, according to a...
"Cabrini" chronicles the early days of the American mission of Mother Cabrini, Patroness of Immigrants. / Credit: Angel StudiosNational Catholic Register, Mar 6, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA)."During the past few weeks, dark-featured women, in the garb of Sisters of Charity, have been going through the Italian quarters in the Bend and in Little Italy, climbing up dark, steep, and narrow stairways, diving down into foul basements and into dens that even a New York policeman does not care to enter without assistance. "These women are all slight and delicate. They wear a peculiar veil, unlike that of the usual religious devotees, and few can speak English. They are members of an order entirely new to this country, the Silesian [sic] Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is an Italian organization of nuns who look after the welfare of orphans and all that are engaged in this work are of Italian birth."So begins an article in New York's The Sun dated June 30, 1889, wh...
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at an election night watch party at Mar-a-Lago on March 5, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. / Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 5, 2024 / 22:47 pm (CNA).Former President Donald Trump easily defeated his sole remaining rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, in at least 11 of the states voting on Super Tuesday, March 5.As of 10 p.m. ET, Trump held double-digit leads over Haley in 11 of the 12 states in which polls had closed: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Haley prevailed in only one of the Super Tuesday states, Vermont, where she edged out Trump by 50% to 46% with 90% of the vote in that state reporting.Three other states also held primaries or caucuses on Super Tuesday: Utah, California, and Alaska. Returns from those states are expecte...
Pope Francis meets with members of the Pontifical Academy for Life on Feb. 12, 2024, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Mar 5, 2024 / 12:15 pm (CNA).On Monday France became the first country in the world to enshrine the right to abortion in its basic law, a move that has been staunchly opposed by the French bishops and by the Vatican. "The Pontifical Academy for Life reiterates that precisely in the era of universal human rights, there cannot be a 'right' to take a human life," the academy wrote in a March 4 statement released by the Bishops' Conference of France following the historic vote. The Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) went on to appeal to "all governments and all religious traditions to do their best so that in this phase of history, the protection of life becomes an absolute priority, with concrete steps in favor of peace and social justice, with effective measures for universal access to resources, education, and health." ...
null / Credit: ShutterstockCNA Staff, Mar 5, 2024 / 15:50 pm (CNA).Leaked internal documents have revealed that members of a prominent transgender advocacy organization admitted that the children who receive permanently life-changing transgender procedures are too young to be capable of giving informed consent. The documents also show, according to a watchdog group, that the organization's endorsement of transgender procedures for children is based on "pseudoscience."The group Environmental Progress published on Tuesday what it dubbed "the WPATH Files," which it described as "semi-private conversations" inside the "internal online forum" of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.WPATH on its website bills itself as a "nonprofit, interdisciplinary professional and educational organization devoted to transgender health." For years the group has advocated for the use of "puberty suppression" drugs and cross-sex hormones for young b...
