US News

Bishop John Manz / Our Lady of Guadalupe

Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass to be celebrated at Chicago’s Federal Plaza

Dec 12, 2009

A public Mass for the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be celebrated on noon Saturday at Federal... Read more

Americans trust physicians over politicians on health care reform, says Gallup analyst

Dec 11, 2009

In a follow up conversation with CNA on Friday, Gallup poll analyst Lydia Saad spoke more about her findings on... Read more

Rep. Bart Stupak / Raymond Arroyo

Rep. Stupak to discuss pro-life prospects for health care bill in EWTN interview

Dec 11, 2009

An interview with Rep. Bart Stupak, the Michigan pro-life Democrat who rallied 64 Democrats to amend the House health care... Read more

Chai Feldblum

Lesbian nominee approved by Senate committee despite pro-family outcry

Dec 11, 2009

Despite the complaints of her critics that she supports same-sex "marriage" as well as previously endorsing polygamous relationships, the Senate HELP... Read more

Sen. Barbara Mikulski

Fifteen Catholic Senators voted against Nelson Amendment

Dec 11, 2009

A total of fifteen self-described Catholic Senators voted to table the Nelson-Hatch-Casey Amendment, which would have significantly restricted abortion funding... Read more

Archbishop Dolan / The late Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Fulton Sheen wanted everyone to be saints, Archbishop Dolan says at memorial Mass

Dec 11, 2009

At the Mass marking the 30th Anniversary of Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s death, Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan thanked God... Read more

Msgr. Melchor Sanchez de Toca y Alameda

Steubenville conference launches N. American endeavor on faith and culture

Dec 11, 2009

The Pontifical Council for Culture began its “intentional engagement” of North America with a conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville.... Read more

Bishop Paul Etienne

Bishop installed with 'joy and enthusiasm' in Wyoming

Dec 10, 2009

On Wednesday, Dec. 9, Bishop Paul D. Etienne (pronounced a-ten) was ordained a bishop and installed as the eighth bishop... Read more

Doctors top list of trusted professions, politicians scrape bottom, poll shows

Dec 10, 2009

According to a Gallup poll published on Dec. 9, members of Congress are among the least trusted professionals in the... Read more

Bishop Fernando Isern at his installation on Thursday.

Archbishop Chaput encourages new bishop to be defined by fatherly love

Dec 10, 2009

This afternoon in southern Colorado, Fr. Fernando Isern was ordained Bishop of the Diocese of Pueblo. In his homily at... Read more

Video taken from Live Action's visit to Planned Parenthood

Video of misinformation in Planned Parenthood clinics shows ‘abortion-first mentality,’ Lila Rose says

Dec 10, 2009

A new undercover video from Live Action films shows Planned Parenthood staff offering inaccurate and contradictory information about fetal development... Read more

Richard Doerflinger

Fight against abortion funding in Senate health bill is ‘far from over,’ pro-life leader says

Dec 10, 2009

Responding to the defeat of the Nelson-Hatch Amendment to the Senate health care bill, Richard Doerflinger of the U.S. bishops’... Read more

Cardinal Sean O’Malley

January’s National Vocation Awareness Week intended to make vocations ‘everyone’s business’

Dec 10, 2009

National Vocation Awareness Week will be celebrated in the U.S. Jan. 10-16 to help make vocations “everyone’s business.” Read more

Supreme Knight of Columbus Carl A. Anderson

First U.S.-Vatican ambassador a ‘pivotal figure,’ head Knight of Columbus says

Dec 9, 2009

William A. Wilson, the first ambassador of the United States to the Holy See, was a “pivotal figure” in American-Vatican... Read more

Sen. Ben Nelson / Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Cloture vote now key after failure of abortion funding restrictions in health care bill

Dec 9, 2009

With the failure of the Nelson-Hatch Amendment restrictions on abortion funding, focus turns to a cloture vote to end debate... Read more

U.S. Bishops 'deplore' Senate dismissal of abortion amendment

Dec 9, 2009

A statement issued this morning by the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Cardinal Francis George,... Read more

CNA

Pope Benedict appoints bishop of Texas diocese

Dec 9, 2009

The Vatican announced today that Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Flores of the Archdiocese of Detroit as... Read more

CNA

Vatican congregation exonerates Long Island monsignor of sex abuse charges

Dec 9, 2009

A New York Catholic priest close to former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani will return to ministry after being... Read more

Fr. Emil Kapaun

Fr. Emil Kapaun is focus of new Wichita Eagle article series and DVD

Dec 8, 2009

By CNA Staff

Wichita priest and U.S. Army chaplain Fr. Emil Kapaun heroically saved wounded sounders from the battlefield of the Korean War... Read more

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Senate kills pro-life Nelson amendment preventing federal funding of abortion

Dec 8, 2009

The U.S. Senate voted this afternoon to table the Nelson-Hatch-Casey Amendment that would have prohibited the federal funding of abortions... Read more