English police guidelines change after MP’s death (CNA) Police guidelines in the U.K. have changed to allow clergy to assist badly injured crime victims after Catholic Member of Parliament David Amess died without benefit of the Last Rites when police failed to grant access to a priest who had rushed to the crime scene. Catholic leaders said the change will help meet the religious needs of crime victims in England and Wales…

Shevchuk denounces “horrific crimes” in Bucha (CNA) The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church on Sunday denounced “horrific war crimes” reportedly committed by Russian forces in a city near Kyiv. In his daily video message on April 3, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk referred to images from the city of Bucha, around 15 miles northwest of the Ukrainian capital, and other newly liberated areas. “Literally a few tens of kilometers from the center of Kyiv, in the liberated towns, we see horrific war crimes,” he said…

Catholic college to rename its science complex for Anthony Fauci (Press Release) The Integrated Science Complex at College of the Holy Cross will be renamed this summer in honor of Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the college’s most prominent alumni, Holy Cross President Vincent D. Rougeau announced Monday. “Dr. Fauci vividly personifies the distinctive characteristics of a Holy Cross education, and we know his life and work are already inspiring the next generation of empathetic servant leaders,” Rougeau said. The college’s science buildings will officially be dedicated as the Anthony S. Fauci Integrated Science Complex on June 11, during Dr. Fauci’s 60th Holy Cross class reunion weekend…

Pope asks opponents of uniform Syro-Malabar liturgy to take “painful step” (CNA) Pope Francis has urged Syro-Malabar Catholics opposed to the introduction of a uniform liturgy to take the “difficult and painful step” of accepting the change. In a three-page letter addressed to members of the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly, the pope noted that the Synod of Bishops of the Eastern Catholic Church based in India had endorsed the move…

Sister Janice Ryan dies (AP) A Vermont nun who served as a college president, worked in Washington to ban land mines and served as a deputy commissioner of the state Department of Corrections has died. Sister Janice Ryan died at a residential care facility in Winooski on March 30. She was 85…

Vatican official tells LGBTQ group Holy Spirit is guiding Synod (CNS) The “main protagonist” in the Catholic Church’s two-year synodal process now underway “is the Holy Spirit, who is ready to guide us on this journey,” Xavière Missionary Sister Nathalie Becquart told a U.S. audience April 3. “The aim of a synod is to foster communion and build a consensus,” Sister Becquart said to an audience made up primarily of LGBTQ Catholics via Zoom from Rome. “If we really listen to one another … if we listen deeply, we will discern how the Holy Spirit is calling the church to move forward…”