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- Cardinal Czerny Leads Prayer Service After Tonga Volcano
  
  NZ Defence Force Heavy ash fall is seen over Tonga, Jan. 17, 2022, several days after a volcanic eruption. Communications from Tonga were cut off after the eruption. Reuters has reported at...
- NYC Pro-Abortion Activists Curse at Churchgoers, Beam ‘God Loves Abortion’ Onto St. Patrick's Cathedral
  
  Joe Bukuras/CNA Pro-abortion demonstrators yelled obscenities at people leaving a pro-life vigil at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on Jan. 22, 2022. Toward the end of the protest...
- Pro-Life Ads Removed in Several Spanish Cities
  
  Courtesy photo A pro-life ad at a bus stop in Spain. The “Cancelled” campaign ”seeks to combat political correctness, the cancel culture and the repression of freedoms.”
News from the Vatican
- Pope says news reporting requires better listening, more objectivity
  
  Listening to others is the first essential ingredient of good communication and a condition of genuine dialogue, Pope Francis said.
- Preaching must awaken souls, not put them to sleep, pope says
  
  Preaching long, spiritually empty homilies can reduce the Word of God to a mere set of abstract concepts that fail to awaken one's soul, Pope Francis said.
- Benedict XVI admits ‘incorrect’ info given to abuse inquiry
  
  Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has admitted that a previous statement on his participation in a meeting that discussed an abusive priest was “objectively incorrect.”