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El Vaticano confirmó el anuncio de la presidenta del Consejo Italiano, Giorgia Meloni, sobre la participación del Papa Francisco en la sesión del G7 sobre inteligencia artificial, que se realizará del 13 al 15 de junio en Italia.

En el marco de la fiesta del Divino Señor de Renca, en la Diócesis de San Luis (Argentina), el artista Roberto Cignetti donó dos cuadros a su santuario.

CNA Staff, Apr 25, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA).

San Francisco police arrested a homeless man last Sunday for allegedly stabbing a Catholic parishioner after an altercation involving the two outside a historic Catholic church in the city. 

Twenty-five-year-old Marko Asaulyuk of San Francisco was charged with attempted murder and eight counts of assault with a deadly weapon.

The victim, who was released from the hospital Sunday, only suffered a minor injury to his leg, Father Tho Bui, pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Church, told CNA Thursday in an email.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone was conferring the sacrament of confirmation on the parish school’s students, religious education students, and students from a nearby parish during a noon Mass when a “disruptive man” entered the church, as Bui described him.

The man was walking up and down the main aisle of the church holding a bottle of wine, ABC7 reported. 

Bui said a group of parishioners and parents told the disruptive man to leave the church and escorted him out. ABC7 reported that the man was speaking with someone outside the church and said “Jesus is not real.”

A “scuffle” then occurred on the sidewalk and that’s when the man stabbed the parent in the leg, according to the priest.

The suspect, who was reported to be homeless, was arrested the same day, Bui said. Police said when they arrived at the scene, aid was given to the victim, who was brought to the hospital with “non-life-threatening injuries.”

Witnesses helped the police locate the suspect, police said. 

Bui called the incident “sad” and “extremely disturbing” but noted “the good news is that the criminal is behind bars, charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and is being held without bail.”

“Very likely, by getting him off the streets, our parishioners and dads prevented something even worse from happening,” he said. “But this is just the latest in an unending series of incidents caused by our city government’s tolerance of crime and mentally ill people on the streets.”

“It’s not specific to Sts. Peter and Paul. We saw in the news just this past week that the nurses at SF General [Hospital] and the librarians at our public libraries are demanding more protection from exactly the kind of incidents we had on Sunday,” he said. 

“Like SF General and the public libraries, we are open every single day. The mission of Jesus Christ requires it! While both our school and club can, and do, fulfill their missions while having gates and doors locked, the Church cannot,” Bui said.

CNA reached out to the archdiocese for comment but did not receive a response. 

CNA Staff, Apr 25, 2024 / 11:30 am (CNA).

Louisiana State Police have obtained a new search warrant to collect documents from the Archdiocese of New Orleans as part of an ongoing investigation into Church abuse in that state.

State police spokesman Jacob Pucheu confirmed to CNA on Thursday that the bureau had obtained the warrant as part of its investigation into “numerous complaints of child sexual abuse” leveled at the archdiocese. The inquiry was first launched in 2022, he said.

“As part of the ongoing investigation, on Monday, April 22, 2024, SVU investigators obtained an additional search warrant to collect information and documents from the Archdiocese of New Orleans,” Pucheu told CNA.

“The archdiocese is cooperating with investigators to fulfill the terms of the search warrant,” he said. “This investigation remains ongoing with no further information available at this time.”

Pucheu declined to directly provide a copy of the warrant, saying that “since it is under investigation, it is not readily available.”

The archdiocese itself did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday morning.

The warrant comes as state police are investigating retired priest Lawrence Hecker, who was indicted in September on felony charges related to allegations that he raped an underage teenage boy in the 1970s.

A team of forensic experts this week said Hecker, who is 92, is presently unfit to stand trial due to short-term memory loss, though the experts said the accused priest could stand trial at a later date.

Prosecutors earlier this year had vowed to proceed with Hecker’s trial amid doubts of his competency. Orleans Parish First Assistant District Attorney Ned McGowan promised to “roll him in on a gurney” to try him.

The archdiocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020, with Archbishop Gregory Aymond pointing to financial pressure from clergy sex abuse claims as the driving force behind the reorganization.

“The prospect of more abuse cases with associated prolonged and costly litigation, together with pressing ministerial needs and budget challenges, is simply not financially sustainable,” the prelate said at the time.

Last year the archdiocese said it would ask “parishes, schools, and ministries” for monetary contributions in order to protect diocesan assets during the bankruptcy proceedings.

The archbishop had previously said that “parishes, schools, and ministries” would not be affected by the filing.

But “this is no longer the case,” Aymond said last year, “because of many external factors now facing us, including the fact that the law governing the statute of limitations has changed to now permit the filing of past abuse claims in civil court.”

Mons. Natale Paganelli es un obispo de 66 años que llegó como misionero javeriano en 2005 a Sierra Leona. En una entrevista con la revista católica Omnes, publicada este 25 de abril, afirma que en ese país africano la mayoría de los sacerdotes católicos son hijos de musulmanes.

El Arzobispo de Mercedes-Luján, Mons. Jorge Eduardo Scheinig, informó en un comunicado que, a raíz de una denuncia recibida en el año 2021 y tras realizarse las investigaciones pertinentes, se le ha retirado el estado clerical a un sacerdote de la Arquidiócesis.

Más de 3000 jóvenes se reunieron con Mons. Rogelio Cabrera López, Arzobispo de Monterrey (México), con quien dialogaron sobre tema actuales como el aborto y la vida en castidad.

El fraile capuchino brasileño Ademir Marques, de 56 años, fue apuñalado en la cabeza este 25 de abril en el Capuchin Day Centre, donde se atiende a personas sin hogar en Dublín (Irlanda).

El P. José Magdaleno Álvarez, rector del Santuario del Niño Jesús de Isnotú, indicó a ACI Prensa que el 30 de abril tendrán lugar las celebraciones centrales por el aniversario

El sábado 20 de abril, la fundación pontificia Ayuda a la Iglesia Necesitada (ACN) inauguró una sede en Lima, la capital de Perú, donde recibirán las donaciones destinadas a sostener más de 50 proyectos caritativos en todo el país.