Tyler Arnold

Tyler Arnold is a staff reporter for Catholic News Agency, based in EWTN News’ Washington Bureau. He previously worked at The Center Square and has been published in a variety of outlets, including The Associated Press, National Review, The American Conservative, and The Federalist.

Articles by Tyler Arnold

Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland, Oregon, processes out of the Church of Our Lady of Providence after Mass during a Rise Up Encounter of World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, on Aug. 4, 2023. Credit: Giulio Capece/EWTN News

Archbishop Sample rebukes ‘celebration of death’ as Oregon governor honors abortionists

Mar 14, 2025 / 14:10 pm

“There are moments when words fail,” Portland Archbishop Alexander Sample wrote in a letter that also offered a pastoral teaching about the sanctity of human life.

Catholic bishop warns against ‘culture of death’ as Idaho backs firing squad executions

Mar 13, 2025 / 17:50 pm

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by firing squad is the primary form of execution.

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FCC grills Google over alleged faith-based discrimination in YouTube TV programming

Mar 13, 2025 / 14:50 pm

The allegations stem from YouTube TV’s refusal to permit faith-based television network Great American Family to stream on its platform.

Pope Francis at the general audience in St. Peter's Square, Oct. 5, 2016. Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

PHOTOS: A timeline of Pope Francis’ 12 years as pope

Mar 13, 2025 / 04:00 am

Pope Francis is the 265th successor of St. Peter. Here is a timeline of key events during his papacy.

Federal judge orders Trump administration to pay foreign aid contracts for finished work

Mar 12, 2025 / 17:30 pm

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to make foreign aid payments to nongovernmental organizations for completed work.

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Senators press small business agency on Planned Parenthood’s ‘unlawful’ use of COVID funds

Mar 12, 2025 / 06:00 am

Sens. Rand Paul and Joni Ernst sent a letter requesting documents and records related to Planned Parenthood’s receipt of Paycheck Protection Program funds.

Cardinal Robert McElroy gives his first homily as the shepherd of the Archdiocese of Washington at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on March 11, 2025. Credit: Patrick Ruddy/CNA

Cardinal McElroy stresses hope, mercy, human dignity as new Washington archbishop

Mar 11, 2025 / 20:25 pm

“Mercy and compassion must be our first impulse when confronted with sin and human failure,” Cardinal Robert McElroy said at his installation Mass on March 11.

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Supreme Court will hear case challenging Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for minors

Mar 10, 2025 / 18:15 pm

The lawsuit asserts that the law constitutes viewpoint discrimination because it prohibits therapy that is rooted in “a religious viewpoint.”

Wyoming governor signs bill to bolster religious freedom protections

Mar 10, 2025 / 14:40 pm

With the adoption of this law, Wyoming becomes the 29th state to enact these protections at the state level.

The lethal injection chamber at the Oklahoma State Penintentiary, May 7, 2010. Credit: Josh Rushing via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

South Carolina inmate to die by firing squad, Tennessee resumes executions with new drug

Mar 7, 2025 / 14:20 pm

Beginning in the 1980s, execution by lethal injection has become the primary method for executions in most states that have the death penalty.

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Judge blocks Trump’s order banning gender transition surgeries for kids nationwide

Mar 5, 2025 / 17:25 pm

The executive order rescinds federal funds for health care providers that perform surgeries or prescribe drugs to facilitate gender transitions for anyone under age 19.

U.S. Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington, D.C. Credit: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia

DOJ: Former Catholic priest convicted of child sex abuse will be deported after sentence

Mar 5, 2025 / 13:40 pm

Jorge Antonio Velez-Lopez pled guilty in 2021 of sexually abusing a minor for whom he had a temporary responsibility of supervising.

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2025, as Vice Preseident JD Vance (back left) and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (back right) look on. Credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images

In joint session address, Trump urges Congress to continue fight against transgenderism

Mar 5, 2025 / 09:30 am

“I want Congress to pass a bill banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body,” Trump said.

Members and guests on the floor of the House during a joint session of Congress. Credit: mark reinstein/Shutterstock

Trump’s guests at joint session of Congress to highlight gender ideology and crime

Mar 4, 2025 / 17:45 pm

In Trump’s first address to Congress in his second term, the president will focus on the theme of “The Renewal of the American Dream.”

Senate Democrats block bill that would ban men from women’s sports

Mar 4, 2025 / 10:50 am

Although a majority of senators backed the legislation on a 51-45 vote, the proposal failed to reach the necessary three-fifths supermajority.

Monsignor James Shea, president of the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota (left), and Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, speak at the National Catholic Prayer breakfast on Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Credit: EWTN News

Pope Francis health concerns top of mind at National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

Feb 28, 2025 / 19:30 pm

Speakers and attendees at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Friday prayed for Pope Francis amid his ongoing ailments and emphasized a message of hope.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance waves to the crowd at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Credit: EWTN News/Screenshot

Vance leads prayer for Pope Francis at National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

Feb 28, 2025 / 18:15 pm

U.S. Vice President JD Vance led attendees at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in a prayer for Pope Francis’ health.

Faith & Reason Institute celebrates silver anniversary

Feb 27, 2025 / 08:00 am

The institute, which got its name from St. John Paul II’s 1998 encyclical Fides et Ratio, addresses issues of economics, politics, public policy, science, and technology.

People wait outside a distribution point to receive aid rations in Oromia Region, Ethiopia, in February 2018. Credit: Will Baxter/Catholic Relief Services

Trump appeals court order to restart foreign aid as Catholic groups remain without funds

Feb 26, 2025 / 16:50 pm

The attorney general’s office filed an appeal late Tuesday after U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ordered the administration to supply those funds by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts to the crowd while arriving at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center on Feb. 22, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Trump celebrates end to ‘transgender insanity’ with thousands at CPAC

Feb 22, 2025 / 17:39 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated an end to what he called “transgender insanity” during his Feb. 22 speech to the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference.