Archive for September 25, 2025

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By Madalaine Elhabbal

Study finds gaps in psychological screening of priesthood candidates

The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University conducted the study in collaboration with the McGrath Institute... Read more

From left: Ross Douthat, media fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology; Will Wilson, CEO of AI company Antithesis; Father Michael Baggot, LC, professor of bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome; and Brian J.A. Boyd, director for the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans discuss AI and the Church on Sept. 23, 2025, at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.?w=200&h=150

By Tessa Gervasini

Catholic University of America panel explores how Christians should think about AI

The Catholic University of America hosted a panel this week to discuss how Christians should think about the developing technology... Read more

University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

UPDATE: Notre Dame announces investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by dorm hall priest

The allegations concern Father Thomas King, CSC, who was rector of the school’s Zahm Hall dorm from 1980 to 1997.  Read more

AI-generated photographs of Pope Leo XIV appearing to fall down a flight of stairs outside St. Peter’s Basilica circulated on the internet in June.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Vatican struggles against spread of ‘deepfake’ images of Pope Leo XIV

The Vatican communications team said it has reported hundreds of accounts, mostly on YouTube, posting deepfakes of Pope Leo XIV. Read more

Richmond Bishop Barry Knestout (center) joins community leaders including U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia (fifth from left), at a groundbreaking ceremony for Greenway Village at St. Elizabeth Parish in Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

Apartments built at Virginia parish highlight faith-led efforts to address housing crisis

A project to develop dozens of affordable housing units in a Richmond, Virginia, parish is underscoring the ongoing need for... Read more

The chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing, defended his country’s controversial guidelines on same-sex blessings this week, asserting that there was no contradiction with Vatican teaching, despite Pope Leo XIV’s recent criticism.?w=200&h=150

By Alexander Folz

Bishop Bätzing: German bishops not on ‘confrontational course with Rome’

At their autumn assembly in Fulda, the German bishops defended controversial blessing guidelines for same-sex couples despite Pope Leo XIV’s... Read more

Pope Leo XIV and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.?w=200&h=150

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

Arnold Schwarzenegger to attend climate justice conference led by Pope Leo XIV

This is the second time the American actor will meet with a pontiff, having greeted Pope Francis in January 2017... Read more

Father Gabriel Romanelli leads Eucharistic adoration at Holy Family Parish in Gaza in December 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Gaza’s only Catholic priest: ‘For mercy’s sake stop this war and stop killing people’

The only parish priest in Gaza, Father Gabriel Romanelli, pleaded in a video posted Sept. 23 for an end to... Read more

Bishop Ciro Quispe López, bishop emeritus of Juli, Peru.?w=200&h=150

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Peruvian bishop resigns after investigation for sexual misconduct, financial mismanagement

Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Bishop Ciro Quispe López of Juli, Peru, following a Vatican investigation initiated in... Read more

Protesters wave the Union Jack and St. George’s Cross flags during the “Unite the Kingdom” rally on Westminster Bridge by the Houses of Parliament on Sept. 13, 2025, in London.?w=200&h=150

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Cardinal Vincent Nichols condemns words and symbols ‘co-opting Christianity’

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, and other English faith leaders condemned the “co-opting”... Read more

Georgetown University, located in Washington, D.C., is the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university.?w=200&h=150

By Tessa Gervasini

Police investigate flyers at Georgetown recruiting for far-left gun group tied to violence

Police are investigating a number of posters displayed on Georgetown University’s campus that appear to be recruiting students for a... Read more

A Planned Parenthood facility in Minneapolis.?w=200&h=150

By Kate Quiñones

Planned Parenthood could owe $1.8 billion in Medicaid fraud lawsuit 

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Thursday in the case, Doe v. Planned Parenthood. Read more

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Andre Mahanna, a former Maronite Catholic priest.

Former Maronite priest still presenting himself as a cleric, Denver Archdiocese warns

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Leo XIV eliminates commission for donations to Holy See created by Pope Francis

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1 in 4 post-abortive women regret abortion decades later, study finds

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Catholic bishops back Trump’s removal of gender ideology in refugee forms

The Ten Commandments outside the Texas capitol.

Dozens of Congress members urge court to allow Ten Commandments display in public schools

Bishop Michael Fisher outside the meeting hall during the 2019 USCCB General Assembly, June 12, 2019.

Buffalo bishop will allow faithful to meet at parishes to oppose closures, mergers

St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

Vatican commission rejects female diaconate, although without a ‘definitive judgment’

Pope Francis receives the bishops of England and Wales for their ad limina visit at the Vatican, Sept. 28, 2018.

Did leak in England suggest broader shift in Vatican policy on the Latin Mass?

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio leads the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.

Archbishop Broglio: Drug cartels must be stopped, but not with ‘violence outside the law’

Poster for the St. John of the Cross 2026 Jubilee.

Discalced Carmelites prepare to celebrate jubilee year of St. John of the Cross

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