“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 [...]

Father Marco Billeri with Pope Leo XIV. / Diocese of San Miniato. Vatican City, Sep 27, 2025 / 13:30 pm (CNA). Bishop Giovanni Paccosi of San Miniato announced Sept. 27 that Pope Leo XIV has named Father Marco Billeri, a priest [...]

St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. / Credit: Babouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Sep 28, 2025 / 06:25 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV announced on Sunday that he will proclaim St. John [...]

Catholics who say Holy Communion should be received on the tongue have ‘much stronger belief in the Real Presence,’ as do those who appreciate the Latin Mass, a new study found. --- Catholics who say Holy Communion should be received [...]

Bishop Abdallah Elias Zaidan of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles serves as chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 26, [...]