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Authorities say the killer of 9-year-old Carol Ann Dougherty, raped and murdered in a Pennsylvania Catholic church 63 years ago, was identified in October 2025 as William Schrader, who died in 2002.

Killer, rapist of girl in Catholic church identified more than 60 years later

Oct 31, 2025

By Amira Abuzeid

Authorities said the killer of 9-year-old Carol Ann Dougherty, raped and murdered in a Pennsylvania Catholic church 63 years ago,... Read more

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Illinois Senate passes assisted suicide measure

Oct 31, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

The Illinois State Senate passed a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the state. Read more

Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago describes artificial intelligence (AI) as Pope Leo XIV’s  “industrial revolution” at a Georgetown University forum Oct. 30, 2025.

Cardinal Cupich at Georgetown panel: AI is Pope Leo XIV’s ‘industrial revolution’

Oct 31, 2025

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Cardinal Blase Cupich described artificial intelligence (AI) as Pope Leo XIV’s “industrial revolution” at a Georgetown University forum Oct. 30. Read more

Electrical poles are down as a man bikes through the destroyed neighborhood of North Street following the passage of Hurricane Melissa in Black River, Jamaica, on Oct. 29, 2025.

Archbishop Broglio urges faithful to aid victims of Hurricane Melissa

Oct 31, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio called for “prayer and action” as Hurricane Melissa devastated the Caribbean region. Read more

The St. Louis Cathedral and Jackson Square are seen at sunset near the French Quarter in downtown New Orleans on April 10, 2010.

Sex abuse victims in New Orleans Archdiocese approve $230 million settlement

Oct 31, 2025

By Amira Abuzeid

The Archdiocese of New Orleans secured nearly unanimous approval for a $230 million bankruptcy settlement on Thursday, paving the way... Read more

Melissa Villalobos suffered severe bleeding while pregnant. St. John Henry Newman interceded and saved her and her daughter Gemma, now 11 years old.

The lifesaving miracle that led to St. John Henry Newman’s canonization

Oct 31, 2025

By Victoria Cardiel

St. John Henry Newman, who will be declared a doctor of the Church on Nov. 1, was canonized after two... Read more

A baby girl at Mary’s Comfort maternity home in Springfield, Virginia.

Volunteering at a maternity home for crisis pregnancies: What to know

Oct 31, 2025

By Kate Quiñones

Kathleen Moyer, president of the Mary’s Comfort Board of Directors and a dedicated volunteer, shared about her experience volunteering there... Read more

Catholic actor Michael Iskander, who portrays King David in Prime Video’s “House of David.”

Catholic actor Michael Iskander says recent conversion is ‘answering a calling from God’

Oct 31, 2025

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

Michael Iskander, the Egyptian-American actor who plays King David in the hit Prime Video series “House of David,” converted to... Read more

St. Thomas Aquinas/St. John Henry Newman.

Pope to make St. John Henry Newman co-patron of Catholic education with St. Thomas Aquinas

Oct 31, 2025

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

Pope Leo declared St. John Henry Newman a co-patron of education along with St. Thomas Aquinas in his recent apostolic... Read more

Sister Allison Gliot, a Daughter of St. Paul, is the author of the “In Aeternum” series as well as other nonfiction and children’s books. She also works as an acquisitions editor for Pauline Books and Media.

Meet the nun who writes Catholic vampire books 

Oct 31, 2025

By Kate Quiñones

When a religious sister felt inspired to write a Catholic vampire trilogy, she knew the inspiration came from Jesus. Read more

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4 ways to celebrate ‘Holywins’ with your family on the eve of All Saints

Oct 31, 2025

By ACI Prensa

The celebration of “Holywins” is an initiative that originated in Paris in 2002 with the aim of celebrating the eve... Read more

Mercedes Schlapp, Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) senior fellow (left), and conservative Catholic political commentator Jack Posobiec (right) discuss Christian persecution at the Summit on Ending Christian Persecution on Oct. 30, 2025, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

CPAC Summit focuses on ending Christian persecution

Oct 30, 2025

By Madalaine Elhabbal

CPAC hosted a Summit on Ending Christian Persecution at the Kennedy Center on Oct. 30 as a part of its... Read more

Shrine of the Queen Mother in Atibaia, Brazil.

Pope Leo XIV grants plenary indulgence at Schoenstatt shrines

Oct 30, 2025

By Natalia Zimbrão

Pope Leo XIV has granted a plenary indulgence to anyone who visits the original Schoenstatt shrine or any shrine, church,... Read more

“Use technology wisely, but don’t let technology use you,” Pope Leo XIV said during his address to hundreds of university students gathered in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Oct. 30, 2025.

‘Don’t let the algorithm write your story,’ Pope Leo XIV exhorts young people

Oct 30, 2025

By Victoria Cardiel

Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 30 addressed hundreds of university students as part of the Jubilee of the World of... Read more

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for more than 1 million young pilgrims at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, in Rome's outskirts, on Aug. 3, 2025.

Youth begin signing up for conversation with Pope Leo XIV

Oct 30, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

Catholic teens are signing up to hear Pope Leo XIV’s first-ever digital address to American Catholic youth during the 2025... Read more

As government-funded food assistance program such as SNAP and WIC are about to lose funding Nov. 1, 2025, due to the government shutdown, Catholic Charities USA is stepping in to help needy Americans.

Catholic Charities USA launches fundraising effort amid government shutdown, loss of SNAP

Oct 30, 2025

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Catholic Charities USA has launched an emergency fundraising effort to support those about to lose access to federal food assistance.  Read more

Students take part at a protest rally against corruption organized by the Catholic Church and others on Sept. 21, 2025.

Corruption crisis in Philippines sparks largest Church-backed protests in years

Oct 30, 2025

By Santosh Digal

Philippine bishops have urged Catholics and others to demand accountability and transparency from government authorities for the misuse of public... Read more

Pope Leo XIV prays during a Mass on Oct. 27, 2025, marking both the start of the academic year at Rome’s pontifical universities and the opening day of the Jubilee of the World of Education.

Pope Leo XIV to offer All Souls’ Day Mass at Rome’s largest cemetery

Oct 30, 2025

By Courtney Mares

The Vatican announced that Pope Leo XIV will offer Mass at Campo Verano Cemetery near the Basilica of St. Lawrence... Read more

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin meets with the head of government of Andorra, Xavier Espot, on Oct. 22, 2025.

The Vatican and Andorra discuss decriminalization of abortion

Oct 30, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

A delegation from the Andorran government met on Oct. 22 with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin to discuss... Read more

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, presides over a press conference on Friday, May 17, 2024, on the Vatican’s new document on Marian apparitions.

Vatican to weigh in on Mary’s role in salvation with doctrine document on Nov. 4

Oct 30, 2025

By Hannah Brockhaus

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith will release a document on Nov. 4 about titles of Mary that... Read more

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A photo of St. Frances Cabrini from 1880, the year she founded her order, is seen against a 1913 painting by Harry J. Jansen, “The Steamship Titanic.”

Mother Frances Cabrini: The unsinkable saint who missed the Titanic

Catholic religious sisters conduct classes at a school they run outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Nov. 2, 2023.

Catholic schools in Bangladesh close amid political unrest

Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, the chair of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ religious liberty committee, speaks on the issue of immigration during a press conference on Nov. 11, 2025, at the USCCB’s fall plenary assembly in Baltimore.

Bishop Rhoades elected USCCB secretary, 6 committee leaders elected

Maura Moser (far left), director of the Catholic Communications Campaign, moderates a discussion on immigration with (left to right) Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, chair of the USCCB's religious liberty committee, and Bishop Mark Seitz, chairman of the USCCB's migration committee, on Nov. 11, 2025, during a press conference at the conference's fall plenary assembly in Baltimore.

America’s bishops express opposition to indiscriminate mass deportations

The beatification ceremony for Mother Elisva Vakha’i was held in the square in front of the Basilica-Shrine of Our Lady of Ransom in Vallarpadam, Kochi, Kerala, India, Nov. 8, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV proposes 19th-century Indian religious as a model of women’s emancipation

Sister Mary Michael of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, PCPA, died Nov. 10, 2025, after roughly three-quarters of a century of religious life. She was 94.

Sister Mary Michael, last of Mother Angelica’s founding nuns, dies at 94

Father Richard Thomas, SJ, ministered in the U.S.-Mexico border region.

Bishops approve beatification cause of priest who ministered in U.S.-Mexico border region

St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

Vatican declares alleged apparitions of Jesus in France ‘not supernatural’

Ezequiel Ponce is among teens chosen to ask Pope Leo XIV questions at the National Catholic Youth Conference Nov. 21, 2025.

Meet the teens speaking to Pope Leo XIV at upcoming National Catholic Youth Conference

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‘Catholic American Bible’ gets green light from U.S. bishops

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