Catholics and pot: Denver archbishop speaks out against marijuana use, U.S. drug culture

null / Credit: chayanuphol/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 10, 2023 / 18:20 pm (CNA). Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver on Friday released a pastoral letter on the Church’s teaching on recreational drugs, with a particular focus on marijuana, aiming to “help Catholics intelligently dialogue with the 70% of Americans who currently believe marijuana should be legal.” […]

Chilean archbishop expresses pain, shame over fire that killed 14 migrants

School children pay tribute to those killed in a Nov. 6, 2023, fire that left 14 migrants dead in a settlement in the Cerro Obligado neighborhood of the town of Coronel, Chile. / Credit: Facebook Page/Colonel Education ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 10, 2023 / 18:40 pm (CNA). The archbishop-elect of Santiago de Chile, Fernando Chomali, […]

Bishop from area plagued by violence in Mexico prays for peace at Guadalupe shrine

Bishop Cristobal Ascencio with pilgrims from the diocese of Apatzingán, Mexico, Nov. 8, 2023. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Insigne Nacional Basilica of Guadalupe ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 10, 2023 / 19:00 pm (CNA). A Mexican bishop from one of the regions hardest hit by drug trafficking violence recently made a pilgrimage to Our Lady […]

UK judges reject moving infant to Rome, order immediate removal of life support

LONDON (OSV News) — Some of the most senior judges in the U.K. ruled late Nov. 10 that the Italian intervention in Indi Gregory’s case to move the infant to Rome under a provision of the Hague Convention is “wholly misconceived” and “not in the spirit of the convention.” Furthermore, Justices Peter Jackson, Eleanor King […]