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Law enforcement vehicles sit parked outside a reported residence of a suspect following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on Aug. 27, 2025 in Richfield, Minnesota.

Minneapolis Catholic Church shooter mocked Christ in video before attack

Aug 27, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

The man who killed two children and injured 17 other people in the Minneapolis Catholic church shooting posted a YouTube... Read more

Archbishop Bernard Hebda of St. Paul-Minneapolis.

Archbishop Hebda after Annunciation School shooting: ‘My heart is broken’

Aug 27, 2025

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda released a statement following the deadly shooting that took place on Wednesday morning at Annunciation Catholic... Read more

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United in prayer: A litany to be prayed after a school shooting

Aug 27, 2025

By Zoe Romanowsky

In times of tragedy, the Church turns to prayer. Here is a litany written specifically to be prayed after a... Read more

Pope Leo XIV prays during his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 13, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican.

Pope Leo prays for victims of ‘terrible tragedy’ in Minneapolis Catholic school shooting

Aug 27, 2025

By Daniel Payne

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday said he was offering prayers for the victims of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting. Read more

Skyline of Minneapolis.

Catholic community unites in prayer after shooting at Minneapolis school Mass

Aug 27, 2025

By Kate Quiñones

After a shooter killed two children and injured 17 others Wednesday during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, the community... Read more

St. Augustine and St. Monica stained glass at St. Augustine Cathedral Catholic Church Basilica in Tucson, Arizona.

Augustinian priests: St. Monica had ‘great interior strength’

Aug 27, 2025

By Kristina Millare

Two Augustinian priests living in Rome explain why the woman they refer to as their “grandmother” continues to be a... Read more

Police and first responders work at the scene of a shooting near Annunciation Church and Catholic School in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, 2025.

UPDATE: 2 children killed in shooting at Minneapolis Catholic church, police say

Aug 27, 2025

By Daniel Payne

Law enforcement on Wednesday said two children had been killed at a shooting incident during a Mass held at Annunciation... Read more

Pilgrims reach out to Pope Leo XIV at the general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican City, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV: ‘Christian hope is not evasion, but decision’

Aug 27, 2025

By Hannah Brockhaus

Addressing thousands of pilgrims in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall, Pope Leo XIV on Aug. 27 emphasized Jesus’ embrace... Read more

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

U.S. bishops identify several policy priorities in Congress this fall

Aug 27, 2025

By Chris Casquejo

As lawmakers prepare to return next week from their August recess, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops wants them... Read more

St. Monica.

St. Monica: The persistent mother of St. Augustine who never gave up

Aug 27, 2025

By CNA Staff

On Aug. 27 the Church honors St. Monica, whose holy example and fervent intercession led to one of the most... Read more

Monsignor Stephen Rossetti is the keynote speaker at the 2025 National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors conference.

Vocation directors conference kicks off to help those ‘forming healthy and holy priests’

Aug 26, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

Hundreds of vocation directors, staff, and collaborators are gathering this week in New York for the 2025 National Conference of... Read more

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Trump’s HHS gives states 60 days to remove ‘gender ideology’ in school material

Aug 26, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

HHS warned states and territories that they must remove references to “gender ideology” from K–12 education materials or they will... Read more

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III, leave the church after a visit to Holy Family Parish in Gaza on July 18, 2025.

Patriarchates of Jerusalem: Forced evacuation of Gaza City is a ‘death sentence’

Aug 26, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

In a joint Aug. 26 message, the Latin and the Greek Orthodox Patriarchates of Jerusalem denounced the evacuation of Gaza... Read more

Palestinians gather outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug. 25, 2025, following Israeli strikes.

Caritas calls ‘man-made famine and assault on Gaza City’ a ‘horror’

Aug 26, 2025

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Caritas Internationalis issued a statement on “the man-made famine and assault on Gaza City” following Israel’s latest military incursion into... Read more

Pope Leo XIV, whose recent discourses will be published in a book on Aug. 27, waves during his Wednesday audience Aug. 20, 2025.

‘Let there be peace!’: Book of Pope Leo XIV’s discourses to be published Aug. 27

Aug 26, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

On Aug. 27 the Vatican will publish a compilation of Pope Leo XIV’s discourses from the first months of his... Read more

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Where does your state stand on abortion?

Aug 26, 2025

By Kate Quiñones

When it comes to unborn human life, only 19 states in the U.S. protect unborn children from abortion during the... Read more

Telley Sadia, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)’s country representative for Sudan.

Cholera crisis deepens in Sudan amid war and aid blockades

Aug 26, 2025

By Agnes Aineah

“This is one of the biggest humanitarian situations in the world which, unfortunately, has not received much international press,” a... Read more

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New initiative seeks to help families ‘reclaim’ the Sabbath

Aug 26, 2025

By Tessa Gervasini

The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis announced a new initiative called “Reclaiming Sundays: Recover Sunday as a Day for... Read more

Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston, Minnesota, announced in a video message Aug. 20, 2025, that he will soon open the sainthood cause of Sister Annella Zervas, OSB, making it the first sainthood cause ever opened in the northerly Minnesota diocese.

Minnesota diocese to open Sister Annella Zervas’ sainthood cause in October

Aug 26, 2025

By Jonah McKeown

Sister Annella Zervas’ sainthood is now closer than ever, as Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston, Minnesota, announced that he will... Read more

Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims during his general audience on July 30, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

Vatican announces theme for 2026 World Day of Peace

Aug 26, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

“Peace Be With You All: Towards an Unarmed and Disarming Peace” will be the theme for the 2026 World Day... Read more