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ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 20, 2025 / 17:05 pm (CNA).

The 14,000-ton, five-century-old dome of St. Peter's Basilica will debut new lighting this coming Easter to further enhance Michelangelo's magnificent work.

According to Vatican News, the new state-of-the-art lighting will ensure more intense and well-distributed light that "will further enhance the dome and create a striking atmosphere."

The maintenance and improvement project for the lighting systems is already being carried out by the Fabric of St. Peter, the entity that manages all the works necessary to preserve and enhance the basilica and its artistic structures.

Experts are putting the dome's drum, the structure that serves as its base, through various functionality and light intensity tests.

In addition, technical operations are being carried out during the night to check the light intensity, which will also be more calibrated and better distributed.

These changes, which will be unveiled on Easter Sunday, April 20, will allow tourists and pilgrims to appreciate even more one of the most famous domes in the world.

Michelangelo's great Renaissance dome was built to house the remains of St. Peter. In fact, as Vatican expert Javier Martínez-Brocal explains in his Spanish-language book "The Vatican as It Has Never Been Told to You," if a fishing line with a lead weight at the end were dropped from the central point of the cupola, "it would rest right above the tomb of the fisherman of Galilee."

The height of the dome is 120 meters (almost 400 feet) from the floor of the basilica to the roof of the cupola, and pilgrims who wish to get to the top of the dome can reach it by climbing its 537 steps.

This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 20, 2025 / 17:35 pm (CNA).

It's been 20 years since Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed, initiating the process of dehydration and starvation that would lead to her death 13 days later.

With the approach of the 20th anniversary of her passing on March 31, 2005, Schiavo's brother Bobby Schindler said "it doesn't get any easier thinking about those events," particularly "having to witness my sister die such a terribly unjust and inhumane death."

"The only thing keeping her alive was the same thing that keeps us all alive, which is food and hydration. Terri had difficulty swallowing because of a brain injury and therefore needed a feeding tube in order to receive her food and hydration. But it was removed."

In an interview with "EWTN News Nightly" anchor Tracy Sabol, Schindler detailed the inhumane way his sister passed. He said: "It's something if we do to an animal, it would be criminal."

Following Schiavo's death, Schindler created the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, which "upholds human dignity through service to the medically vulnerable" and assists people who experience similar situations to Schindler and his family. 

The network offers help through "public advocacy of essential qualities of human dignity — which include the right to food and water, the presumption of the will to live, due process against denial of care, protection from euthanasia as a form of medicine, and access to rehabilitative care — as well as through 24/7 crisis lifeline service to at-risk patients and families," according to the organization's website. 

The organization strongly advocates that food and water be classified nationally as "basic and ordinary" care. Food and water that is delivered by a feeding tube is often called "medical treatment" or is treated as an "end-of-life" issue, but Schnidler and his network advocate that they are just basic human needs. 

"We only get the hard cases," Schindler told Sabol. "It seems to me these past 20 years, decisions are being made awfully quick, particularly when someone experiences a brain injury, to stop treatment."

"Sometimes days, sometimes even hours, pressure is being put on families to terminate treatment," he continued. "They need time."

"We certainly will stand with families that call us when these decisions are being made so quickly and use our resources, doing anything we can to help the family get the time they want and the treatment they want for their loved ones," Schindler said. 

Recalling the circumstances of Schiavo's case, the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network recounts that "at the age of 26, Terri experienced a still unexplained collapse while at home alone with Michael Schiavo, who subsequently became her guardian. After a short period of time, Michael lost interest in caring for his brain-injured, but otherwise healthy, young wife."

"Terri was not dying, and did not suffer from any life-threatening disease. She was neither on machines nor was she 'brain dead.' To the contrary, she was alert and interacted with friends and family — before her husband … petitioned the courts for permission to deliberately starve and dehydrate her to death."

After years of legal battles between Schiavo's husband and her family, a judge ruled in Michael Schiavo's favor, allowing Terri Schiavo's life to end.

"The fact that Terri's case was not isolated and it's happening every single day across countless hospitals and nursing homes and hospices is just troubling," Schindler emphasized.

"It happens every single day. And that's why we're doing the work that we're doing, trying to help other families that are confronted with similar types of situations."

Since its founding two decades ago, the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network has advocated for and assisted more than 3,000 medically vulnerable patients and families.

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ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 20, 2025 / 14:35 pm (CNA).

"Assisted suicide is a false charity" with alarming consequences that must be rejected, said Bishop David Malloy of Rockford, Illinois, in a pastoral letter in response to the possibility that the Illinois General Assembly could approve the practice.

The prelate referred to a Senate bill and a House bill that would legalize assisted suicide for people with terminal illnesses.

In his March 12 letter Malloy noted that proponents of both bills claim they will "end suffering at the end of life."

However, he warned that "although well-intentioned, assisted suicide is a false charity that brings with it many alarming consequences that, as followers of Jesus Christ, we are called to reject."

The prelate encouraged the faithful not only to pray and fast to stop both bills but also to write or call their state elected officials and encourage them to vote no on the legislation. Malloy referred them to the Illinois Catholic Conference website or they could call 217-528-9200 to request information on how to contact their local elected officials.

Assisted suicide affects the most vulnerable

In his letter, Malloy reiterated that "assisted suicide is clearly not the compassionate solution for those suffering."

He pointed out that where this practice has been legalized, "there are documented cases of insurance companies refusing to pay for the necessary care of the terminally ill while at the same time they will cover the small cost of the drugs resulting in the end of life." 

He also noted that "every major national organization that represents people with disabilities is opposed to assisted suicide."

Furthermore, "experience shows that it is especially the poor and those with disabilities who are particularly in jeopardy as they are the most vulnerable to such abuses," he pointed out.

"There is no way to prevent the vulnerable from being coerced or intimidated to end their lives once this assisted suicide is legal. The American Medical Association (AMA) has summed up the case against assisted suicide well: 'Physician assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician's role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would provide serious societal risks,'" Malloy noted.

Palliative care is right response to suffering

Malloy affirmed that "our Catholic faith strongly believes that no one should needlessly suffer or have to watch a loved one experience unnecessary pain and suffering." 

Malloy recalled that the history of Catholic health care is filled with testimonies of "compassion for those who are suffering and for their loved ones. In this way we show our love and respect for the gift of human life and the dignity even of those who are ill or suffering."

And, "thanks to the advancement of medical knowledge, there are now effective ways to make a person more comfortable at the end of life through palliative care," he continued.

He explained that this specialty "utilizes physician-led teams to care for the whole person — physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually — to relieve the symptoms and the stress that often accompany serious illness and side effects of treatment."

"Through palliative care, expanded access to mental health care, and stronger family and community support, providers and families are finding better ways to accompany these people compassionately that truly confers the love for, and dignity of, each human life," Malloy emphasized.

In addition to Illinois, bills to legalize assisted suicide have also been introduced in Maryland and Delaware.

If passed, they would join California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and the District of Columbia, which have already legalized the practice.

This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.

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Vatican City, Mar 20, 2025 / 07:52 am (CNA).

Pope Francis was admitted to Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Friday, Feb. 14, to undergo testing and treatment for bronchitis.

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Toronto, Canada, Mar 20, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

Canada's Finance Department has avoided providing a clear answer to a written appeal from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) urging the federal government not to adopt budget recommendations that would strip charitable status from "anti-abortion" and "advancement of religion" nonprofit organizations.

A statement provided to The Catholic Register in Canada on March 13 by the department's media relations officer, Marie-France Faucher, did not reference the CCCB or its specific concerns surrounding recommendations 429 and 430 of the pre-budget consultations in advance of the 2025 budget.

In her email response, Faucher said "the government of Canada recognizes the vital role charities play in delivering essential services to those in need" and provided general information about how an organization may apply for charitable registration under the Income Tax Act.

Her only comment about the next budget was that the Finance Department "continues to explore ways to ensure the tax system remains fair and effective in supporting Canadians and the organizations that serve them."

The CCCB's permanent council sent its March 10 letter to then-Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and a follow-up letter on March 18 to François-Philippe Champagne, who was appointed finance minister on March 14 by newly minted Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The CCCB said a clearer stance on the concerns is required soon, highlighting in its letters that "40% of all charitable organizations in Canada are faith-based."

The bishops said depriving these organizations of charitable status "would decrease donations, causing their revenue to dwindle, thus crippling their ability to inspire, operate, and maintain essential social services that benefit the wider community."

Among the 14 signatories are conference president Bishop William McGrattan of Calgary, vice president Bishop Pierre Goudreault of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Cardinals Francis Leo of Toronto and Gerald Lacroix of Quebec, and Montreal Archbishop Christian Lépine.

Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) applauded the permanent council's letter.

"Thank God the Canadian bishops have joined in this fight to save Christian Canada," said CLC national president Jeff Gunnarson. "Canada, as our charter states, is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God. The government is attacking the very foundation of our country with these proposals. United together we will stave off this governmental assault on our nation and our treasured faith."

Chalice, a Canadian Catholic international child sponsorship charity headquartered in Bedford, Nova Scotia, is one of the nonprofits registered with the Canada Revenue Agency that would be targeted by recommendation 430.

Chalice founder and president Father Patrick Cosgrove said in an email the recommendation "reveals a negative bias against religion that is not supported by the evidence that active faith and the practice of religion have a measurably positive impact on society and the individual."

Cosgrove, whose 29-year-old organization operates 52 sites in 14 different countries, said a 2018 study released by the Christian research organization Barna found Christians are more likely than others to donate clothing or furniture, provide food, and volunteer to serve in the community.

Pregnancy Care Canada executive director Dr. Laura Lewis sent a letter to LeBlanc on March 6 noting that recommendation 429 "does not define the scope of this proposal," leaving it unclear how an organization will be classified as "anti-abortion." She added that the mission of Pregnancy Care Canada and 81 affiliated centers is to offer alternatives to abortion.

"The free support available at local pregnancy care centers is crucial to providing a national safety net for women looking for support for an unexpected pregnancy," Lewis said.

She also suggested that recommendation 429 is a way to implement a pledge in the Liberals' 2021 election platform to "no longer provide charitable status to anti-abortion organizations that provide dishonest counseling to women about their rights and about the options provided to them at all stages of pregnancy."

This story was first published by The Catholic Register and is reprinted with permission.

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Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mar 19, 2025 / 15:45 pm (CNA).

Pope Francis has gifted the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to him by former U.S. President Joe Biden to the metropolitan cathedral of Buenos Aires. 

The medal is the highest honor given to a civilian by the United States, which the former president in January, before leaving office, decided to bestow upon the Holy Father, announcing the award by telephone.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction recognizes "individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant social, public, or private endeavors" and has been awarded only 55 times.

In presenting the award to the apostolic nuncio to the United States, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the White House noted that Jorge Bergoglio "for decades served the voiceless and vulnerable across Argentina. As Pope Francis, his mission of serving the poor has never ceased. A loving pastor, he joyfully answers children's questions about God. A challenging teacher, he commands us to fight for peace and protect the planet. A welcoming leader, he reaches out to different faiths."

"The first pope from the Southern Hemisphere, Pope Francis is unlike any who came before. Above all, he is the People's Pope — a light of faith, hope, and love that shines brightly across the world," the White House stated at the time.

Addressing the pontiff on X, Biden said "your humility and your grace are beyond words, and your love for all is unparalleled. As the People's Pope, you are a light of faith, hope, and love that shines brightly across the world. Today, it was my honor to award His Holiness Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction."

After receiving this recognition, the Holy Father decided to send the medal to the Buenos Aires cathedral, where he served as archbishop and cardinal primate until the conclave that elected him the successor of Peter in 2013.

The cathedral's ceremony to receive the medal took place on March 13, the 12th anniversary of Pope Francis' election, during a Mass of thanksgiving for his pontificate.

Upon receiving it, Father Alejandro Russo, rector of the cathedral, said: "Note how today we view this award that the pope has received from President Biden of the United States as a symbol, simply beyond any nation that could have done so, and any president who could do so."

"The pope must accompany, lead, and preside over the Church and the sheep of Christ's flock. But it is also the pope's role, as the clear presence of the voice of Jesus Christ in time, to bring the mystery and preaching of the Gospel through justice and peace, through human elements, but which are certainly clear conditions for the life and establishment of the Gospel in time to the rest of the world," he explained.

The Holy Father, he added, "preaches, brings justice, peace, and truth to all areas of life. The Holy Father is present in the various situations of conflict, and the Holy Father is present in the preaching of justice and truth in the various area of public life, when he is invited, when he visits, when he is in different realities. And the Holy Father is present there, also giving a new imprint to this preaching, to this landing of the kingdom in the temporal." 

"Wanting to take away this mission from the Church, wanting to take away this mission of preaching justice and truth, is wanting to separate her from the mission that Jesus himself gave her. Wanting the pope to remain available only inside St. Peter's Basilica, merely to issue rules and regulate the internal life of the Church, is wanting to obscure the figure of the pastor, the figure of the representative of Jesus that Christ himself intended," Russo noted.

"And so we give thanks on this 12th anniversary, receiving this award. But we give thanks because Pope Francis had the courage to preach justice, to preach the truth, to be present in armed conflicts to try to help resolve them; that Pope Francis also had the courage to make it an issue throughout the world the ecological care of our common home; that Pope Francis had the courage to bring the preaching of the Gospel into the temporal realm," he summarized.

"We ask God then, in these days, as we continue to pray for the pope, that he may continue to recover, for the presence of Pope Francis in the Catholic Church," Russo prayed, and quoting the archbishop of Buenos Aires, he prayed "that oxygen may be taken in by the pope's lungs, that the pope, who, thank God, gave so much oxygen to the Church, may be healed."

This is the second time a pope has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The first was presented by George W. Bush to John Paul II during a visit to the Vatican in 2004.

This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.

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CNA Newsroom, Mar 19, 2025 / 09:25 am (CNA).

Writing from Gemelli Hospital, Pope Francis emphasized the role of hope in vocational discernment in his message for the 62nd World Day of Prayer for Vocations released by the Vatican on Wednesday.

"Vocation is a precious gift that God sows in hearts, a call to step outside oneself to undertake a journey of love and service," wrote Francis in his address on March 19.

The hospitalized pope described how vocations develop through "trust in providence" and said Christian hope goes beyond optimism to become "a certainty rooted in faith in God, who works in the history of every person."

Francis called on Church leaders to support younger generations in their vocational journeys while encouraging young people to work with "the Holy Spirit" in discovering their life's purpose.

The pope pointed to young saints as examples of those who found "complete happiness in relationship with the living Christ" through their vocations.

On the solemnity of St. Joseph, Francis explained that vocational paths develop through "daily fidelity to the Gospel, prayer, discernment, and service" and concluded by urging Church communities to foster vocational awareness across various aspects of life.

"The Church is alive and fruitful when it generates new vocations," he added.

"Our world looks, often unknowingly, for witnesses of hope who proclaim with their lives that following Christ is a source of true joy. Let us never tire, then, of asking the Lord for new laborers for his harvest, certain that with great love he continues to call them."

In closing, the pope entrusted efforts of the young faithful "to follow the Lord to the intercession of Mary, mother of the Church and mother of vocations. Keep walking as pilgrims of hope on the path of the Gospel! I accompany you with my blessing and I ask you, please, to pray for me."

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ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 19, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

Lent is not only a time of self denial but also of transformation. Six saints and blesseds have offered the following profound reflections on how to live this time authentically through fasting and conversion of heart.

St. Augustine

"It is true that Moses, Elijah, and Our Lord himself fasted for 40 days; but in Moses, Elijah, and Christ we are meant to see the law, the prophets, and the Gospel, and to learn from them not to cling to this present world or imitate its ways but to nail our unregenerate selves to the cross. Christians must always live in this way, without any wish to come down from their cross, otherwise they will sink beneath the world's mire. But if we have to do so all our lives, we must make an even greater effort during these days of Lent. It is not a simple matter of living through 40 days; Lent is the epitome of our whole life." 

St. John Paul II

"Renunciation of sensations, stimuli, pleasures, and even food or drink is not an end in itself. It must only, so to speak, prepare the way for deeper contents by which the interior man 'is nourished'" (General audience, Wednesday, March 21, 1979).

St. John XXIII

"Lent, O Lord: Do not allow us to resort to broken cisterns (Jer 2:13), nor to imitate the unfaithful servant, the foolish virgin; do not allow the enjoyment of earthly goods to make our hearts insensitive to the lament of the poor, the sick, orphaned children, and the countless brothers and sisters of ours who still today lack the minimum necessary to eat, to cover their bare limbs, to gather the family under one roof" (Radio message of the Holy Father John XXIII on the occasion of the beginning of Lent, Feb. 27, 1963).

Blessed Alvaro del Portillo

"Lent is an urgent call to guard against the snares of the evil one, taking up the weapons of prayer and penance. In the words of our Father, I have often reminded you that 'the devil does not take vacations,' that he never ceases in his efforts to draw souls away from God," (Text of Feb. 2, 1985, published in "Journey with Jesus through the Liturgical Year," Scepter, 2014).

St. Josemaría Escrivá

"We cannot consider this Lent as just another time, a cyclical repetition of the liturgical season. This moment is unique; it is a divine aid that must be welcomed. Jesus passes by our side and awaits from us — today, now — a great change" (from "Furrow," a book written by the saint).

"I advise you to try sometimes to return... to the beginning of your 'first conversion,' which, if not becoming like children, is very similar to it: In the spiritual life, one must let oneself be led with complete trust, without fear or duplicity; one must speak with absolute clarity about what is on one's mind and soul," (from "Christ Is Passing By," a book by the saint).

Blessed Carlo Acutis

"Our soul is like a hot-air balloon. If by chance there is a mortal sin, the soul falls to the ground. Confession is like the fire underneath the balloon enabling the soul to rise again. ... It is important to go to confession often" (National Catholic Register).

"Conversion is nothing more than moving the gaze from below to above; a simple movement of the eyes is enough" (National Catholic Register).

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ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 18, 2025 / 17:10 pm (CNA).

Father Gabriel Romanelli, the pastor of Holy Family Parish in Gaza, reported that following the breakdown of the truce between Israel and Hamas, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have launched new attacks very close to his parish.

The priest told Vatican News the bombings occurred just 300 or 400 meters (about 985 to 1,300 feet) from the church, awakening the faithful and causing a growing sense of insecurity throughout the community.

"The bombings woke us up; they were very close. Fortunately, no shrapnel [hit us] and we're fine, but throughout the Strip there is already talk of more than 350 dead and more than a thousand injured," Romanelli said. 

At the outset of the war the parish building, the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, was converted into an improvised shelter where 500 people now live. Most are Orthodox Christians, Protestants, and Catholics, but it also serves as a shelter for more than 50 Muslim children with disabilities and their families.

The priest of the Institute of the Incarnate Word emphasized that, given the continued uncertainty, some of the families who had returned to their homes after the ceasefire was declared have decided to return to the parish, feeling safer "with Jesus," despite the fact that no place in the region is completely safe.

"Here we are together with Mother Teresa's sisters, the male religious of my congregation of the Incarnate Word, the sisters of the same congregation, the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará. We all try to do good, to serve; we pray, we assist the elderly, the children; we also have children with special needs, and we try to make sure they don't suffer, because children are sponges — they realize if adults are anxious," he added.

Romanelli also referenced the support they are receiving from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, especially in channeling the humanitarian aid that has been able to enter in recent days thanks to the truce in Gaza and the West Bank.

"We continue to pray to convince everyone that peace is possible, that we must work for peace, for the works of justice, hoping that the Lord will grant this part of the Holy Land a period of peace for everyone, Palestinians and Israelis," he concluded.

This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 18, 2025 / 14:40 pm (CNA).

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is urging the Trump administration to reverse the cancellation of USAID's "lifesaving and life-giving assistance" following the official announcement that the majority of its programs have been cut. 

In a March 10 statement posted to X, Secretary of State Marco Rubio reported the completion of the International Humanitarian Assistance evaluation. "After a six-week review we are officially canceling 83% of the programs at USAID," he said.

"The 5,200 contracts that are now canceled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve (and in some cases even harmed) the core national interests of the United States," he continued.

"In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1,000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department," Rubio concluded.

In response, CRS in a March 17 press release stated: "As part of the Catholic Church, Catholic Relief Services believes that human life is a precious gift from God that must be protected and nurtured."

The nongovernmental organization, which carries out the commitment of the U.S. bishops to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas, explained that during the six-week review, it had to halt its "U.S. government-supported work due to the lack of payments."

The CRS statement said that "food in warehouses could not be distributed to the hungry and women and children could not get vital health and nutrition services."

"In addition," the statement said, "last week's termination of dozens of CRS' lifesaving projects will permanently cut off critical aid to more than 20 million people worldwide. Eleven of these terminated projects had received humanitarian waivers."

"These programs do more than save lives. They help lift communities and countries out of poverty. They support local faith-based and church partners that provide services and stability to their communities and to their countries."

"In the holy season of Lent in this special jubilee year, Pope Francis invites Catholics and all people to become artisans of hope by building communities rooted in solidarity."

The statement highlighted that the United States has a responsibility to global aid.

"CRS programs attend to the needs of very poor communities. As the most powerful and wealthy country in the world, our government also has a moral responsibility to assist the most vulnerable. As Pope Paul VI said in his encyclical Populorum Progressio: 'It is a very important duty of the advanced nations to help the developing nations.'"

"By ending these lifesaving programs, our government is not only neglecting our nation's responsibility but also weakening the very foundations of peace, stability, and prosperity."

"We urge the administration to reverse these terminations and issue prompt payments to continue this lifesaving and life-giving assistance," CRS concluded.

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