Articles by Daniel Payne
Maine court to rule if mother can take daughter to church over father’s objections
Nov 19, 2025 / 12:23 pmThe Maine State Supreme Court is considering whether to give a mother the right to take her daughter to church amid a dispute with the child’s father.
CNA explains: Why does the Catholic Church prohibit ‘gay marriage’?
Nov 17, 2025 / 06:00 amThe Catholic Church has continued to affirm the definition of marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman — why?
Denver Archdiocese, Catholic schools ask Supreme Court for access to preschool program
Nov 15, 2025 / 11:00 amThe petition comes after a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in September that Colorado may continue to exclude Catholic preschools from its Universal Preschool Program.
Iowa man receives life in prison for 2023 stabbing of Nebraska priest
Nov 14, 2025 / 11:04 amKierre Williams last month pleaded guilty to the assault that claimed the life of Father Stephen Gutgsell.
U.S. bishops pass directive forbidding transgender surgeries at Catholic hospitals
Nov 13, 2025 / 13:20 pmThe prelates voted on Nov. 12 to direct hospitals to “preserve the integrity of the human body” when treating individuals with gender dysphoria.
Sister Mary Michael, last of Mother Angelica’s founding nuns, dies at 94
Nov 12, 2025 / 15:54 pmSister Mary Michael of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, PCPA, died on Nov. 10 after roughly three-quarters of a century of religious life. She was 94.
Arizona man sentenced to prison after hoax bomb threats at Christian churches
Nov 11, 2025 / 11:40 amAn Arizona man will serve more than half a decade in prison after he carried out multiple hoax bomb threats at churches in the western U.S.
U.S. Supreme Court allows Trump administration to require biological sex on passports
Nov 7, 2025 / 11:56 amThe U.S. Supreme Court said on Thursday that the Trump administration could require passports to display an applicant’s biological sex.
Religious sisters announce historic land return to Wisconsin Native American tribe
Nov 7, 2025 / 06:00 amThe Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration announced the transfer of land back to the Lac du Flambeau Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa tribe on its website.
Prosecutors claim Kansas City diocesan staffer stole $150,000 from scholarship fund
Nov 6, 2025 / 13:15 pmA staffer at the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph allegedly stole more than $150,000 while serving as the leader of a diocesan scholarship program, officials have alleged.
Nancy Pelosi announces she will retire from Congress in 2027
Nov 6, 2025 / 12:15 pmNancy Pelosi, the U.S. Democratic leader who has served in Congress since the late 1980s, announced she will not seek reelection once her current term expires.
Virginia, New Jersey races deliver victory to Democrats amid Trump’s second term
Nov 4, 2025 / 22:17 pmFormer U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Virginia, won the gubernatorial race in that state to become the commonwealth’s first woman governor.
CNA explains: The step-by-step process the Church uses to declare someone a saint
Nov 1, 2025 / 04:00 amOn the day the Church celebrates the Church triumphant in heaven, we take a closer look at the formal process the Church uses to declare someone a saint.
Trump says he will ask Chinese president to release Jimmy Lai: ‘It’s on my list’
Oct 25, 2025 / 11:00 amAsked by EWTN News White House Correspondent Owen Jensen if he planned to speak with Xi on the topic of Lai, Trump responded: “I might do that, yeah.”
‘Every execution should be stopped’: How U.S. bishops work to save prisoners on death row
Oct 25, 2025 / 06:00 amBishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of condemned prisoners facing execution.
Alabama executes man by nitrogen gas after Supreme Court denies request for firing squad
Oct 24, 2025 / 11:32 amAnthony Boyd was convicted of capital murder in the 1993 killing of Gregory Huguley in Talladega County, Alabama.
In Virginia, a Founding Father’s Catholic daughter is laid to rest after 185 years
Oct 23, 2025 / 17:04 pmThe Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, held Eliza Monroe Hay’s reinterment at the top of Hollywood Cemetery overlooking the James River on Oct. 23.
After losing to Catholic charity at Supreme Court, Wisconsin seeks to end religious tax break
Oct 22, 2025 / 12:44 pmThe U.S. Supreme Court in June ruled that the state violated the First Amendment when it denied a tax exemption to the Diocese of Superior’s Catholic Charities Bureau.
Fact check: Did the Vatican Library open a prayer room for Muslims?
Oct 21, 2025 / 15:56 pmReports circulating in media outlets and on social media in October 2025 allege that the Vatican has opened a prayer room for Muslims in the Apostolic Library.
New Jersey says parish finance director stole more than $500,000 in church funds
Oct 18, 2025 / 14:15 pmJoseph Manzi has been charged with second-degree theft by unlawful taking after he allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from St. Leo the Great Parish in Lincroft.