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The English doctor who prepared an official reporting questioning the medical arguments in favor of gender-altering treatment for children has revealed that she now faces threats and has been advised not to use public transportation.

Dr. Hilary Cass, who prepared her report for the National Health Service, said that she was dismayed by the reaction to her report, and particularly by grossly inaccurate accounts of what she had actually written.

“Teach Us to Pray,” a resource for the Year of Prayer published in Italian in February by the Dicastery for Evangelization, is now available in English and other languages.

Pope Francis declared 2024 to be a Year of Prayer in preparation for the 2025 Jubilee Year. Since the 15th century, it has been customary for the Church to celebrate a jubilee every 25 years.

President Joe Biden shocked American Catholics when he ostentatiously made the Sign of the Cross during a political rally when a Democratic Party leader spoke against restrictions on abortion.

When Florida’s Democratic Party chairman Nikki Fried blasted a measure to ban abortions after six weeks of gestation, Biden—standing beside her on the platform—ostentatiously blessed himself.

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr (1577-1622). Fidelis was born at Sigmaringen in Swabia in 1577. He practiced at first as a lawyer and so took to heart the cause of the needy that he was known as the poor man's lawyer. Then he joined the Capuchin Friars Minor and was sent by the Holy See to the Grisons in order to bring back the inhabitants of this canton from Protestantism to the Catholic faith. His great influence earned him enemies; he was murdered at Seewis on April 24, 1622.

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The Vatican hopes to renew the secret deal with China concerning the selection of Catholic bishops, Cardinal Pietro Parolin has confirmed.

In an email exchange with LifeSite News regarding the agreement, the Vatican Secretary of State wrote that “we hope to renew it.” The agreement, which has already been renewed twice, will come up for a third renewal later this year.

Although Vatican officials have justified the agreement as a means of ensuring proper leadership for the Church in China, roughly one-third of China’s dioceses do not currently have a bishop.

The April 22 edition of L’Osservatore Romano featured five articles devoted to Earth Day, most prominently a front-page article with Pope Francis’s Earth Day tweet.

The front-page article included an image of a child sitting in a field and holding the planet Earth. Next to the child are the words, “Vote for CLIMATE, Vote for OUR FUTURE.”