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Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa presents a Bible to a catechism teacher on Sept. 27, 2025, in Galilee.

Cardinal to catechists: If your faith isn’t meaningful to you, it won’t be to your students

Sep 30, 2025

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa told catechism teachers that if faith is not meaningful in their lives, then it will not be... Read more

Brooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan carries the thurible around the altar inside Louis Armstrong Stadium on April 20, 2024.

Brooklyn bishop calls on faithful to lobby against New York assisted suicide legislation

Sep 30, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

Brooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan has asked the faithful to contact New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and urge her to oppose... Read more

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China uses torture to suppress religious leaders, report says

Sep 30, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

China tries to exert total control over religion, according to a September report by the United States Commission on International... Read more

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for his general audience on Sept.24, 2025.

UPDATE: Pope Leo XIV wades into Durbin debate

Pope Leo XIV said U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin’s record should be considered in its totality and that Americans should search... Read more

Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Sept. 11, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV responds to aspiring doctor who asks ‘What does the future hold for us?’

Sep 30, 2025

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Pope Leo XIV responded with a father’s heart to a 21-year-old Roman medical student who asked him “What does the... Read more

A student workshop at the College of St. Joseph the Worker in Ohio, which will now receive a $5 million grant to expand to West Virginia.

Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking to block $5 million state grant to Catholic trade school

Sep 30, 2025

By Daniel Payne

A West Virginia judge has tossed out a lawsuit aiming to block a state agency from providing a $5 million... Read more

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Parish Church of St. Anne in the Vatican on Sept. 21, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV restores custom of Christmas Day Mass

Sep 30, 2025

By Hannah Brockhaus

The Vatican has announced Pope Leo’s Mass schedule for Nov. 1 through the end of the Christmas season in January... Read more

The flag of Slovakia, pictured in the country’s capital, Bratislava.

Slovak bishops welcome constitutional amendment recognizing only 2 sexes

Sep 30, 2025

By Bohumil Petrík

Slovakia’s recently-amended constitution, which aims to protect family, marriage, and parenthood, has been called an “important step” by the Conference... Read more

“Where are the kids protesting this?” Bill Maher said of the Christian genocide in Nigeria during the Sept. 26, 2025, edition of his HBO program “Real Time with Bill Maher.” 

Top U.S. political satirist draws attention to plight of Christians in Nigeria

Sep 30, 2025

By Kate Quiñones

Political satirist Bill Maher, who has often been a vocal critic of Christianity, recently called attention to the persecution of... Read more

Saint Jerome Writing, a painting by Caravaggio, dated to 1605–06.

Are modern Bible translations always better? A Catholic linguist praises St. Jerome’s Vulgate

Sep 30, 2025

By Jonah McKeown

The Vulgate became the predominantly used Bible of the Middle Ages and has endured to this day. Read more

Nurses who are on strike hold signs in support of the community following a shooting and fire at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in front of Henry Ford Genesys Hospital on Sept. 29, 2025, in Grand Blanc, Michigan.

Shooting at LDS church in Michigan prompts Catholic solidarity, prayers

Sep 29, 2025

By Amira Abuzeid

Multiple U.S. Catholic bishops offered prayers and expressed their solidarity after a gunman attacked a Church of Jesus Christ of... Read more

President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission meets on Sept. 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Religious Liberty Commission hears from teachers, coaches, school leaders

Sep 29, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

Speakers said there must be a fight for schools to bring back the “truth” to protect students and religious liberty. Read more

After delaying restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass for three months, Bishop Michael Martin said in a Sept. 26, 2025, letter that the Chapel of the Little Flower in the St. Therese Parish in Mooresville, North Carolina, which was recently renovated by the diocese and can seat just over 350 people, will have two Masses each Sunday and on holy days of obligation.

Charlotte bishop restricts Traditional Latin Mass to 1 chapel

Sep 29, 2025

By Amira Abuzeid

Charlotte Bishop Michael Martin said the Traditional Latin Mass will be offered at one chapel starting Oct. 2. Read more

Some of the coffins of 73 Christians from Benue State, central Nigeria, massacred by Fulani jihadists in 2018.

There is a strategy to annihilate all Christians and Islamize Nigeria, expert says

Sep 29, 2025

By Victoria Cardiel

Criminologist and researcher Emeka Umeagbalasi has spent 30 years denouncing human rights violations in his country and is clear that... Read more

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Christian leaders in Zimbabwe urge debt cancellation to alleviate economic burden

Sep 29, 2025

By Sabrine Amboka

Zimbabwe is struggling with an $8.3 billion debt (in U.S. dollars), which blocks access to affordable international financing and slows... Read more

Pope Leo XIV meets with members of the European Parliament’s Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue on Sept. 29, 2025, at the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV: ‘European institutions need people who know how to live a healthy secularism’

Sep 29, 2025

By Victoria Cardiel

Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 29 received the European Parliament’s Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue at the Vatican. Read more

Statue of St. Michael the Archangel in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies on Aug. 12, 2025.

Brazil adds St. Michael the Archangel’s feast day to national calendar

Sep 29, 2025

By Natalia Zimbrão

St. Michael the Archangel’s feast day was officially incorporated into Brazil’s national calendar following the enactment of a law approved... Read more

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for the Mass for the Jubilee of Catechists on Sept. 28, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

Catholics must respond to AI threat to authentic, human communication, Vatican says

Sep 29, 2025

By Hannah Brockhaus

The pope’s choice of theme for the 60th World Day of Social Communications 2026, published Monday, is “Preserving Human Voices... Read more

“EWTN News Nightly” welcomed its new anchor, Veronica Dudo, on Sept. 8, 2025.

‘EWTN News Nightly’ welcomes new anchor Veronica Dudo 

Sep 29, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

New “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Veronica Dudo said she wanted to be a journalist “to give a voice to those... Read more

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CNA explains: What is transhumanism?

Sep 29, 2025

By Father Michael Baggot

What exactly is transhumanism, and how does the Church approach it?  Read more