Archive for June 16, 2025

In 1965, at the close of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI gave Jacques Maritain a message directed to “men of thought and science.”?w=200&h=150

By Victoria Cardiel

Vatican exposition celebrates friendship between St. Paul VI and Jacques Maritain

The Vatican Museums have inaugurated the exhibition “Paul VI and Jacques Maritain: The Renewal of Sacred Art Between France and... Read more

Archbishop Georg Gänswein has been the Vatican’s nuncio to the Baltic states since 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus,Rudolf Gehrig

Vatican diplomat says U.S. policy in Ukraine has disappointed Baltic allies

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the Vatican’s nuncio to the Baltic states, said the region has been disappointed with the current U.S.... Read more

Smoke billows from an explosion in southwest Tehran on June 16, 2025. Iran’s state broadcaster was briefly knocked off the air by an Israeli strike and explosions rang out across Tehran on June 16 after a barrage of Iranian missiles killed 11 people in Israel on the fourth day of an escalating air war.?w=200&h=150

By Kristina Millare

Pope Leo XIV calls for responsibility, dialogue to end escalating Israel-Iran violence

Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, echoed Pope... Read more

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By CNA Staff

Los Angeles children’s hospital to shutter transgender youth program

The hospital told families in an email that there was “no viable alternative” to closing the clinic, one of the... Read more

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By Amira Abuzeid

Supreme Court orders New York to revisit abortion mandate case after religious liberty win

The U.S. Supreme Court’s order follows its unanimous ruling on June 5 in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor and... Read more

Cardinal Raymond Burke gives the final blessing during the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage Mass in Rome on Oct. 25, 2014.?w=200&h=150

By Kristina Millare

Cardinal Burke appeals for restoration of Traditional Latin Mass

Cardinal Raymond Burke said he has asked Pope Leo XIV to remove measures restricting the celebration of the Traditional Latin... Read more

Over 200 Christians were murdered by Islamist militants in Nigeria on June, 13, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Up to 200 displaced Nigerian Christians killed in ‘worst’ attack yet

Islamist militants killed up to 200 Nigerian Christians on Friday in what international aid organizations are calling the “worst killing... Read more

A makeshift memorial for Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, is seen at the Minnesota State Capitol building on June 16, 2025, in St. Paul, Minnesota.?w=200&h=150

By Kate Quiñones

Minnesota victim of political shooting ‘part of parish community’ local priest says 

A suspected shooter faces federal charges after he was arrested for the murders of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman — a... Read more

Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï.?w=200&h=150

By Andrés Henríquez

Lebanese cardinal urges Christians not to leave Middle East

Cardinal Bechara Boutros Raï, patriarch of the Maronite Church in Lebanon, lamented the decline of the Christian population in the... Read more

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem (pictured) and Cardinal Dominique Mathieu of the Archdiocese of Tehran–Isfahan in Iran asked for prayers on June 16, 2025, as the conflict between Iran and Israel escalated.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

Catholic cardinals in Iran and Israel pray for peace as violence escalates

Catholic leaders in Iran and Israel are praying for peace as violence between the two nations continues to escalate following... Read more

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Friar Francesco Patton, outgoing custos of the Holy Land.

Outgoing custos of the Holy Land proposes a path to peace

Notre-Dame de Paris (French for “Our Lady of Paris”), also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world.

Notre-Dame Cathedral welcomes more than 6 million visitors since reopening

The childhood home of Pope Leo XIV in Dolton, Illinois.

UPDATE: Pope Leo XIV’s hometown purchases his childhood home

The funeral of Matteo Balzano, a young Italian priest who recently took his own life at the age of 35, was held July 8, 2025, in the presence of the faithful — especially young people — he served at the parish in Cannobio in the Piedmont region.

‘You were, above all, a friend’: Eulogy for Italian priest who died by suicide

Charitable organizations distribute food to displaced people in shelter tents in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on June 9, 2024.

As conditions worsen in Gaza, novena for peace set to start

A map of Nigeria.

Security guard killed, 3 seminarians abducted from Nigerian seminary

St. Peter’s Chapel and Native American Museum at Saint Kateri Tekakwitha National Shrine and Historic Site in Fonda, New York.

Historic St. Kateri Tekakwitha shrine welcomes visitors to walk in her footsteps

Pope Leo greets pilgrims during the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents, and the Elderly on Sunday, June 1, 2025.

Rome readies for Jubilee of Youth: ‘You will never experience anything like this again’

Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi receives Joseph Aoun back in January 2024.

6 months into new presidency, Lebanese Christians take stock

Seminarian Josh Brooks.

Athlete, convert to Catholicism, and future priest: The story of Josh Brooks

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