Government directs prosecutors to deprioritize some immigration cases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Biden administration officials have instructed lawyers for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to focus on prosecuting cases involving immigrants who pose a public safety, national or border security threat and set “low priority” cases on a different track. The administration made public the memo sent to prosecutors April 4. Some suspect it’s […]
Catholic youth organizations urge end to Germany’s ban on abortion ads
null / Photographee.eu/Shutterstock. Essen, Germany, Apr 6, 2022 / 10:44 am (CNA). The Federation of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ), an umbrella organization of Catholic children’s and youth associations, has spoken in favor of abolishing the ban on advertising for abortions in Germany. The Federal Cabinet of Germany has passed a draft law to lift Section […]
US Priest Begs Cardinals to Uphold Catholic Teaching on Homosexuality
Father Philip Bochanski celebrates Mass at the EWTN chapel in Irondale, Alabama. In an open letter Father Philip Bochanski, executive director of Courage International, implores Cardinals Jean-Claude Hollerich and Reinhard Marx: ‘Your Eminences, I beg you, please be faithful to your oath.’
Pope Francis: We are witnessing the ‘impotence’ of the UN in the Ukraine war
Pope Francis speaks during his weekly general audience on April 6, 2022. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Apr 6, 2022 / 06:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis lamented the “impotence” of the United Nations in the face of the Ukraine war in comments made dur… […]
WHO’s Next Great Idea
TRANSCRIPT The U.N.’s World Health Organization (WHO) is trying to erect a key pillar in the new global technocracy. Church Militant’s Kristine Christlieb documents how global health is being weaponized to enslave the world. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general, U.N. World Health Organization: “I believe the time is right for an international treaty or other […]
Warnings Unheeded
TRANSCRIPT The head of Germany’s bishops is doubling down after being criticized and cautioned that the German Church is heading towards schism. Church Militant’s Martina Moyski explains how warnings are falling on deaf ears. Georg Bätzing, the bishop of Limburg, is denying claims Germany is headed for spiritual ruin. Earlier in the month, the Nordic […]
Synod Sister’s New Ways
Your browser does not support the video tag. CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Pope Francis’ synodal sister is now incorporating the alphabet-soup crowd into the Synod on Synodality. Church Militant’s William Mahoney looks at the French nun’s recent address to a dissident pro-sodomy group. Sister Nathalie Becquart: “We have to decide new things, to find […]
Congolese bishops urge clerics with kids to leave priesthood
In the run-up to the July papal visit, Catholic bishops in the DR-Congo have urged priests who have fathered children to seek laicization and care for their families
Archbishop from Assisi brings first-class relic of Blessed Acutis to U.S.
Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi, Italy, brought a first-class relic of Blessed Carlos Acutis to a Catholic high school on Long Island April 4 as he began a five-day tour with the relic. Blessed Acutis, an Italian teen who died of leukemia in 2006 and was beatified in 2020, is entombed in the Church of […]
As three feasts converge, Holy Land Christians hope for peace, tourism
With pandemic restrictions almost fully lifted, churches and shopkeepers alike are hopeful that the streets of Jerusalem will fill up once again as Easter, Passover and Ramadan converge. Joseph Hazboun, regional director of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association-Pontifical Mission in Jerusalem, noted that the pandemic has left its mark not only on people in […]