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Pope Leo XIV interacts with a baby before celebrating Mass in Beirut, Lebanon, on Dec. 2, 2025.

Powerful moments from Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Turkey and Lebanon

Dec 2, 2025

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

Here are some of the most powerful moments from Pope Leo XIV’s first international trip. Read more

Sister Helen Prejean is an anti-death-penalty advocate.

Catholics join coalition opposed to the death penalty amid execution surge

Dec 3, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

Catholics and pro-life conservatives formed a coalition of more than 50 organizations seeking to end the death penalty. Read more

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

Dec 4, 2025

By Daniel Payne

Bishop Michael Fisher is permitting Catholics to meet at Buffalo, New York, parishes while they work to oppose diocesan-mandated parish... Read more

Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa.

Canadian government set to remove religious exemptions from hate-speech laws

Dec 2, 2025

By Daniel Payne

Lawmakers with the Liberal Party of Canada have reportedly struck a deal with the Bloc Québécois party to remove the... Read more

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’

Dec 4, 2025

By Daniel Payne

U.S. Military Services Archbishop Timothy Broglio is urging the country’s leaders to refrain from killing noncombatants while neutralizing violent drug... Read more

Archbishop Juárez Marqués shepherds the Archdiocese of Teresina, Brazil.

Mary is the servant of her son, but not co-redemptrix, Brazilian archbishop says

Dec 3, 2025

By Monasa Narjara

In an interview with a local television station, Archbishop Juárez Marqués reflected on Mater Populi Fidelis (“Mother of the Faithful... Read more

Advent candles.

Advent: What is it and how should it be celebrated?

Nov 30, 2025

By CNA Staff

Need a refresher on Advent? Here’s some info that can help you live a great Advent this year. Read more

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

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

Dec 4, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

The U.S. Catholic bishops have published a public comment that supports the removal of gender ideology within refugee resettlement forms... Read more

Seminarians at St. Paul’s Major Seminary on the Indonesian island of Flores.

How a remote island in Indonesia forms hundreds of priests for the world

Nov 29, 2025

By Bryan Lawrence Gonsalves

Flores hosts several seminaries, most clustered around Maumere on the island’s northern coast. Read more

Three Augustinian nuns (pictured on Sept. 16, 2025) fled their nursing home and returned to their convent in Austria.

Austrian nuns who escaped nursing home reject compromise offer

Dec 2, 2025

By Alexander Folz

Three Austrian nuns have rejected a compromise to remain at Goldenstein Monastery, escalating a yearslong dispute that now goes to... Read more

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

Dec 4, 2025

By Kate Quiñones

Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news. Read more

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto is the founder of The Kukah Centre, a Nigeria-based public policy institute.

Nigerian foundation defends Catholic bishop after remarks about Christian genocide

Dec 3, 2025

By Silas Mwale Isenjia

The executive director of The Kukah Centre blamed the media for its inadequate reporting of Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah’s remarks... Read more

The world's tallest monument of Our Lady of Fatima was inaugurated  in Crato, located in Ceará state in northeastern Brazil.

World’s tallest Our Lady of Fátima monument inaugurated in Brazil

Nov 20, 2025

By Monasa Narjara

The world’s tallest monument dedicated to Our Lady of Fátima was inaugurated in Crato, located in Ceará state in northeastern... Read more

The Ten Commandments outside the Texas capitol.

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

Dec 4, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

Forty-six United States lawmakers are urging the federal court to allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools. Read more

Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Nov. 19, 2025.

Official Vatican documents can now be drafted in languages ​​other than Latin

Dec 2, 2025

By Victoria Cardiel

For the first time, the regulations stipulate that “the curial institutions will, as a general rule, draft their documents in... Read more