November 10, 2023

A daily news briefing from Catholic News Agency, powered by artificial intelligence. Ask your smart speaker to play “Catholic News,” or listen every morning wherever you get podcasts. www.catholicnewsagency.com - A terminally ill British infant has been given more time to live after a court on Thursday gave her family permission to appeal a judge’s decision mandating where her life support can be removed. According to a Christian advocacy group, the courts may also consider the possibility of allowing the family to take the child to Italy for treatment at a Vatican-run hospital. Indi Gregory, born in February, suffers from a rare degenerative mitochondrial disease and has been receiving life-sustaining treatment on a ventilator at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, England. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255960/british-infant-indi-gregory-given-more-time-to-live-as-judge-allows-family-to-appeal West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, the last centrist Catholic Democrat in the US Senate, announced Thursday he isn’t running for reelection next year. Manchin’s decision to leave the US Senate may hurt the Democrats’ chances of keeping control of it in 2024. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255967/democratic-sen-joe-manchin-a-centrist-catholic-wont-seek-reelection The Vatican has released the schedule for Pope Francis’ trip to Dubai in early December to attend the COP28 climate conference. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255958/vatican-releases-schedule-for-pope-francis-trip-to-dubai-in-december Pope Francis lamented the innocent deaths in Israel and Palestine during a meeting Thursday with a Catholic order of knighthood that supports the Holy Land. Francis said he is spiritually united with the leaders of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem as they are meeting in Rome this week. Also known as the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, the order is a lay institution under the protection of the Holy See whose first mention in historical records dates to 1336. https://w