St. Peter s Square was illuminated by candlelight the night of Saturday, May 20, 2023, as pilgrims prayed the rosary in a procession in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNARome Newsroom, May 22, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).St. Peter s Square was illuminated by candlelight Saturday night as pilgrims prayed the rosary in a procession in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary.The rosary procession was part of a Vatican initiative for the month of May, a special time of devotion in the Catholic Church honoring Mary as Mother of God.St. Peter s Square was illuminated by candlelight the night of Saturday, May 20, 2023, as pilgrims prayed the rosary in a procession in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNASt. Peter s Basilica is hosting the candlelight procession at 9 p.m. every Saturday in May. Amid Rome s spring thunderstorms, pilgrims have faithfully come to join the processions, rain or shine.Father Michael Kong, a priest from Australia currently .
null / Credit: Pixabay / Public domainACI Prensa Staff, May 22, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Nicaraguan Catholics living in exile dedicated to the defense of human rights charged that the supposed "voluntary dissolution" of Immaculate Conception Catholic University, which trained seminarians in Managua, is "one more hostile action" of the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, against the Catholic Church.On May 18, the Nicaraguan Ministry of the Interior (Migob) announced the "voluntary dissolution" of the university run by the Archdiocese of Managua where seminarians from the Nicaraguan capital were trained.In the attempt to justify the dissolution, the Ortega and Murillo regime accused the Catholic institution of the alleged "failure to comply with its obligations since 2015, since they did not report their financial statements and board of directors."In a statement to ACI Prensa, CNA s Spanish-language n
A member of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence marches with LGBTQ+ activists during the Los Angeles LGBT Center's "Drag March LA: The March on Santa Monica Boulevard," in West Hollywood, California, on Easter Sunday April 9, 2023. / Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 23, 2023 / 00:01 am (CNA).Catholic leaders reacted with disgust Monday night after the Los Angeles Dodgers re-invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to be an honoree at the team s LGBTQ+ Pride Night game on June 16 despite the drag group s mockery of the Catholic faith. "When did mocking Catholic nuns become America s pastime?" the Catholic advocacy group CatholicVote tweeted. "Shamefully, (but not surprisingly) the @dodgers have been bullied into apologizing to & re-inviting a group of anti-catholic bigots," tweeted Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, who wrote a letter to Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred protesting the Dodge
Bishop-elect Edward M. Lohse, 61, will be installed in the Diocese of Kalamazoo, Michigan, on July 25, 2023. / Diocese of KalamazooRome Newsroom, May 23, 2023 / 04:50 am (CNA).Pope Francis on Tuesday appointed Erie, Pennsylvania priest Monsignor Edward M. Lohse to lead the Diocese of Kalamazoo, Michigan.Lohse, 61, succeeds Bishop Paul J. Bradley, 77, whose resignation was accepted by Pope Francis on May 23.Bradley will continue to serve as apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Kalamazoo until Lohse s ordination in St. Augustine Cathedral on July 25, according to the diocese.The Diocese of Kalamazoo, which comprises nine counties in southwest Michigan, has 59 parishes, 21 Catholic schools, and almost 80,000 Catholics.Bishop-elect Lohse has been vicar general and moderator of the curia for the Diocese of Erie since 2017. During his 34 years as a Catholic priest, he has been a parish priest, high school chaplain, vocations director, chancellor, official in the Vatican s Dicast.
null / Credit: Pixabay (Public Domain)ACI Prensa Staff, May 22, 2023 / 15:45 pm (CNA).In the midst of allegations of sexual abuse against Jesuit priests in Bolivia, a Carmelite priest was arrested recently by the authorities, and accusations against another Carmelite and a Franciscan have come to light.In a statement to the Bolivian newspaper Página Siete, a former seminarian of the Carmelite order reported in 2014 that he was sexually abused by Father Milton Murillo when the priest was the administrator of the formation house in La Paz. According to the complainant, Murillo allegedly pressured seminarians to let him give them a medical examination in which inappropriate touching occurred. Whoever refused, the complainant said, was exposed to reprisals or being expelled from the community.The former seminarian said a group of seminarians tried to inform the then Carmelite superior, Father Garvin Grech, about what was happening without getting any results.Página Siete noted that.