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Indiana Catholic women’s college reverses transgender admissions policy

Woman with transgender symbol on her hand. / Juanje Garrido/shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 14:52 pm (CNA). Saint Mary’s College — a Catholic women’s school in Notre Dame, Indiana — is reversing its controversial transgender admissions policy, the school’s president revealed in an email on Thursday.  President Katie Conboy had last month confirmed a […]

Appeals loom for convicted defendants in Vatican trial (Pillar)

All of the nine people convicted of financial misconduct in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” have filed—or are expected soon to file—notice that they will appeal their sentences. Ed Condon of The Pillar writes that in some cases—including that of Cardinal Angelo Becciu—the evidence presented at trial makes it difficult to expect a successful […]

Pope thanks Vatican employees for ‘hidden’ service (Vatican News)

Pope Francis offered his Christmas greetings to Vatican employees at a December 21 audience, and remarked that their work for the Church can reflect the message of the infant Jesus, whose birth was hidden and seemed insignificant. “Your work here in the Vatican mostly takes place in daily hiddenness, often doing tasks that may seem […]

German Catholics to prepare texts for blessing same-sex unions (Katholisch )

The vice-president of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) has revealed plans to produce a text for church blessings of same-sex unions. Although the Vatican document Fiducia Supplicans explicitly stated that such blessings should not follow a formal formula, Birgit Mock said: “We will proceed with the handout as planned.” “In Germany we already […]