Several conservative Catholics criticized the blessing on social media, most notably Jack Posobiec and Matt Walsh. --- Several conservative Catholics criticized the blessing on social media, most notably Jack Posobiec and Matt [...]

In a stunning turn of events, pro-abortion Senator Dick Durbin is declining the controversial Lifetime Achievement Award he was slated to receive next month from Cardinal Blase Cupich. As LifeNews has extensively reported, Cupich faces heavy criticism from millions [...]

Pope Leo XIV prays during his general audience on Sept. 24, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 1, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of [...]

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Parish Church of St. Anne in the Vatican on Sept. 21, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Sep 30, 2025 / 12:26 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s [...]

“Where are the kids protesting this?” Bill Maher said of the Christian genocide in Nigeria during the Sept. 26, 2025, edition of his HBO program “Real Time with Bill Maher.”  / Credit: Noam Galai/Getty Images CNA Staff, Sep 30, 2025 [...]

The core of the idea is that a “healthy” secularism is one in which church and state are separate, but in which religious institutions and believers are encouraged to play important roles in public life. --- ROME – Channeling his inner [...]

Some of the coffins of 73 Christians from Benue State, central Nigeria, massacred by Fulani jihadists in 2018. / Credit: International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 29, 2025 / 16:53 pm (CNA). Attacks against [...]

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for the Mass for the Jubilee of Catechists on Sept. 28, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Sep 29, 2025 / 10:50 am (CNA). Pope Leo [...]

Bishop Michael Martin is telling Latin Mass-goers in the Diocese of Charlotte to consider waiting to go to the new chapel due to limited space. --- Bishop Michael Martin is telling Latin Mass-goers in the Diocese of Charlotte to consider waiting [...]

Pope Leo has raised “the question of how to deal with perpetrators in a manner consistent with Christian moral teaching, without playing punishment, atonement, penance, and forgiveness off against each other.” --- ROME – One of Catholicism’s leading experts in the [...]