A group of migrants from South America crosses the Rio Bravo border between Mexico and the United States to request asylum. / Credit: David Peinado Romero/ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 5, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).Auxiliary Bishop Francisco Javier Acero of the Primatial Archdiocese of Mexico expressed the Church s profound concern over the "waves of migrants" crossing the country and stressed that those who suffer the most are "unaccompanied minors."Speaking with ACI Prensa, CNA s Spanish-language news partner, Acero said that faced with the complexity of the drama of the migrants, "we are there as a Church accompanying them."The bishop pointed to the efforts of the Josephine Sisters who run the Home for Welcoming, Training, and Empowering Women and Migrant Families and Refugees (CAFEMIN) and praised the "commendable work of Sister Magdalena" and of the entire community, who receive migrant minors traveling alone and care for them.Acero also note
null / EWTN News NightlyBoston, Mass., May 4, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).The Archdiocese of Hartford is appealing to the Vatican for guidance on how to proceed with its investigation of a possible eucharistic miracle at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Thomaston, Connecticut.The referral is the first public update by the archdiocese since it was first reported in late March that Jesus, truly present in the holy Eucharist, appeared to multiply himself in the ciborium, typically a gold chalice that holds the eucharistic body of Christ. "Reports such as the alleged miracle in Thomaston require referral to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome. The archdiocese has proceeded accordingly and will await a response in due time," David Elliott, a spokesman for the archdiocese, told CNA Thursday.It s unclear how long the dicastery could take to respond to the archdiocese s request, Elliott told CNA.Since news of the possible eucharistic miracle spread, a number of
null / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, May 4, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).Researcher and lawyer Martha Patricia Molina on May 3 presented the third installment of her report "Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church?"The document gives an account of the at least 529 attacks perpetrated by the Daniel Ortega dictatorship in the last five years with 90 committed so far in 2023.In her Zoom presentation made from exile, the researcher exposed the "hostilities, persecution, sieges, desecration, destruction, robbery, expulsions, and confiscations" perpetrated by the dictatorship.Molina also condemned the "imprisonment of committed religious and lay leaders" of the Church in Nicaragua."In this work, I propose to systematize in order to show and contribute to the political, cultural, and social history of Nicaragua facing future and current upcoming generations so as to not forget the events and decisions" of the parties involved and for the purpose of "turnin
Elisabeth Ohlsen. / Credit: E. OhlsonWashington D.C., May 4, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).An art exhibit at the European Union s Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium, has prompted criticism from conservative politicians in Italy for its display of a blasphemous depiction of Jesus Christ and the apostles.The artwork, a series of photographs by lesbian Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson, includes one of a man who is meant to represent Christ wearing a white robe and a halo made out of stars above his head. The man is surrounded by seven men who are wearing leather-based fetish clothing associated with BDSM fetishism.Ohlson said the photographs are meant to depict Christ supporting homosexual rights. "There [are] a lot of pictures of Jesus with heterosexual [people]," Ohlson said on Twitter. "Millions, billions of paintings, famous artists. But this is just 12 pictures of Jesus loving the LGBT rights, so 12 pictures should not be so scary for them."
null / Credit: Chodyra Mike 1/Shutterstock.CNA Staff, May 4, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).A federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that The Satanic Temple must be allowed to hold its "After School Satan Club" in a public middle school in Pennsylvania s Saucon Valley School District.U.S. District Court Judge John Gallagher, sitting in Allentown, issued the preliminary injunction just days after The Satanic Temple held its second annual conference called "SatanCon" in Boston, which was heavily protested by Catholics.The Satanic Temple, which, according to its website, denies the existence of God and Satan, is a political activist group known for protesting religious symbolism in public spaces and mocking Christianity by offering "unbaptism" and hosting "black masses." The school district, located in Northampton County, on Feb. 16 approved The Satanic Temple s request to hold an After School Satan Club at its middle school. In response to a shoo