Archive for February 3, 2025

Community members at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Los Angeles turn out to unload a truck of supplies from Kansas on Jan. 28, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

Kansas Catholics travel 1,600 miles with truck of supplies for Los Angeles parish

Deacon Greg Trum and his wife, Barb, told CNA that they were moved to help residents of Los Angeles while... Read more

An aerial view of tents installed at Sangam ahead of Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj on Jan. 7, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Anto Akkara

Indian bishops mourn stampede deaths at massive Hindu festival attended by millions

“It is heartbreaking to witness such a calamity during a sacred event that draws millions in devotion,” Cardinal Filipe Neri... Read more

Queen Rania Al Abdullah speaks along with other world leaders at the Children’s Rights Summit on Feb. 3, 2025, at the Vatican.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis, international leaders discuss children’s rights at Vatican

Pope Francis and leaders from around the world are meeting at the Vatican this week to discuss the rights of... Read more

Filipino Cardinal Pablo Virgilio Siongco David was created a cardinal by Pope Francis during the consistory at St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 7, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Kristina Millare

Filipino cardinal urges Catholics to report clerical abuse to Church and civil authorities

Days after BishopsAccountability.org on Jan. 29 launched its Philippines database, the cardinal insisted the country’s Catholics must report “erring priests.” Read more

Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani is pictured here during a 2017 liturgical celebration in Lima, Peru.?w=200&h=150

By Eduardo Berdejo

CNA explains: The sexual abuse accusation case against Cardinal Cipriani

An article published by Spanish newspaper El País reported an accusation of alleged sexual abuse against Peruvian Cardinal Juan Luis... Read more

Pope Francis speaks at the Children’s Rights Summit on Feb. 3, 2025, at the Vatican.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis to write papal document on theme of children

The summit includes panels on the child’s right to resources, to education, to food and health care, to family, to... Read more

Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., “paused prescriptions of puberty blockers and hormone therapy” for transgender-identifying youth there in response to a Trump directive.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

Children’s hospitals suspend youth transgender programs after Trump order

President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order restricting transgender surgeries and drugs for youth. Read more

Pope Francis meets with members of a pilgrimage sponsored by the Scandinavian Bishops’ Conference on Feb. 3, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican.?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

Pope Francis: Carlo Acutis shows young people ‘the fullness of life’ in Christ

Speaking to Catholic pilgrims from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland on Feb. 3, the pope shared a special message... Read more

Religious sisters gather at SEEK25 in Salt Lake City, Jan. 3, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Survey reveals common threads behind final vows of 2024’s professed religious

The survey report released on Monday polled a total of 140 religious who professed perpetual vows in 2024, including 73... Read more

Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Society of Jesus, prepares to celebrate Mass at the Gesu in Rome on Oct. 15, 2016.?w=200&h=150

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Jesuits to hold third world summit of major superiors in October

The superior general of the Society of Jesus, Venezuelan priest Arturo Sosa, has convoked a meeting of all the Jesuit... Read more

After receiving assistance from the Catholic Charities RGV Humanitarian Respite Center, migrant families from Mexico and Central America who have been released into the United States are processed for their transport to various destinations across the United States from the at the Central Station Bus Terminal on June 19, 2018, in McAllen, Texas.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

CNA explains: How the Catholic Church partners with the U.S. government to serve migrants

In recent years, the USCCB has received more than $100 million annually from the federal government to support migration and... Read more