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Blind Sheik guilty of 1990s terror plots dies in US prison
The so called Blind Sheik, Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted of plotting terror attacks in New York City in the decade before 9/11 has died in a federal prison. He was 78....
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Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana. / Credit: Diocese of Fort Wayne-South BendCNA Staff, Sep 20, 2024 / 14:10 pm (CNA).The Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, released guidelines on Sept.12 affirming that diocesan schools and institutes must practice the Church's teaching on sexuality and gender while being compassionate toward those struggling with gender dysphoria. Bishop Kevin Rhoades notes in the policy that all diocesan institutes must use pronouns that align with a student's biological sex. The policy does not permit the use of "'preferred pronouns" in any capacity. It further requires that students use the uniforms and bathrooms that match their biological "God-given sexual identity" and attend single-sex sports and programs that match their biological sex as well. The 11-page document, approved earlier this month by Rhoades, also prohibits "public advocacy for, or celebration of, sexual behavior or ideologies cont...
??Etsuro Sotoo is an enthusiastic advocate of the cause of canonization of Antoni Gaudí, known as "God's architect." / Credit: Public Domain CC-BY-SA-4.0 Wikimedia CommonsMadrid, Spain, Sep 20, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).For the first time, a sculptor and native of Japan will be awarded the Ratzinger Prize.His name is Etsuro Sotoo, born in 1953 in Fukuoka, Japan, and a graduate of Kyoto University.A 1978 visit to Spain changed the course of his life forever. Arriving in the city of Barcelona, he was impressed by the construction of the Sagrada Familia basilica and asked to work there as a sculptor.Following instructions left by Antoni Gaudí, the renowned Spanish architect of the monument, still under construction, Sotoo began his work on the basilica's Nativity façade.During his stay in Barcelona, ?Sotoo converted to Catholicism and received the sacrament of baptism. Sotoo is an enthusiastic advocate of the cause of canonization of Gaudí, known as "God's architect."So...
A man prays at the Candlelight Chapel at the National Shrine to Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, on April 2, 2005, the day Pope John Paul II died. / Credit: William Thomas Cain/Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 19, 2024 / 17:15 pm (CNA).Former President Donald Trump is no longer planning to attend an event with Polish President Andrzej Duda at a Catholic Marian shrine in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 22.The campaign's scheduled stop at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown has been canceled. The reason for the change in Trump's schedule is unclear.On Sunday afternoon, the Polish-American Smolensk Disaster Commemoration Committee will unveil a monument at the shrine's cemetery to commemorate the Polish solidarity movement and its fight for independence against the Soviet-backed communist regime of the 1940s through the 1980s.A spokesperson for the shrine could not be reached for c...
