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Henry Ford once declared, “History is Bunk.” Personal preferences aside, Ford’s blunt dismissal of the past reflects a still-dominant bias toward the future deeply rooted in America’s self-understanding as a nation of progress. A steep [...] --- Henry Ford once declared, [...]

Then-Archbishop Van Thuan meets St. Teresa of Calcutta during her first visit to Vietnam as mother superior of the Missionaries in Charity in 1991. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Elisabeth Nguyen Vatican City, Sep 21, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The [...]

The “Angels Unawares” sculpture depicting immigrants to America on The Catholic University of America’s campus in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Peter Pinedo/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 21, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Catholic Church in the United Sta... [...] --- The “Angels [...]

Eucharistic edoration at the Holy Family Parish in Gaza, led by the parish priest, Father Gabriel Romanelli, in December 2024. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Gabriel Romanelli ACI MENA, Sep 19, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The city of Gaza [...]

This photo taken on Jan. 15, 2024, shows a Chinese flag fluttering below a cross on a Christian church in Pingtan in China’s southeast Fujian province. / Credit: GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 19, 2025 / [...]

by Daniel Darling (@dandarling) In the spring of 1965, a little-known assistant secretary of labor, policy, planning, and research in the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson issued an explosive report that would prove to be both controversial in the moment [...]

Three Augustinian nuns (pictured on Sept. 16, 2025) fled their nursing home and returned to their convent in Austria. / Credit: Photo courtesy Nonnen_Goldenstein CNA Deutsch, Sep 18, 2025 / 16:33 pm (CNA). Since early September, three elderly n... [...] --- Three Augustinian [...]

Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims at his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sept. 17, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Sep 17, 2025 / 10:18 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday condemned the [...]

The original image of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the Mexican flag. / Credit: David Ramos/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 17, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). In a country “bled dry by violence, confused by ideologies, and threatened in its [...]

by Frank DeVito When someone has a powerful influence on the world, different factions will always clamor to claim that person as their own. This impulse is even stronger in death. So, in the wake of the shocking and horrible [...]