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Leaders of the Christian community lay wreaths at the grave of Father Charles Joseph Young at the Holy Rosary Church cemetery in Dhaka on Nov. 14, 2025.

How an American missionary empowered Bangladesh’s Christian community

Nov 18, 2025

By Stephan Uttom Rozario

Father Charles Joseph Young founded a credit union in 1955 that lifted Bangladesh’s Christians from poverty and now has $122.6... Read more

Servant of God Enrique Shaw.

Pope Leo XIV highlights example of Argentine businessman Enrique Shaw

Nov 13, 2025

By Victoria Cardiel

Pope Leo XIV honored the late Argentine businessman Enrique Shaw in a message to the 31st Industrial Conference of Argentina... Read more

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Church’s voice ‘vital’ in guiding AI’s future, symposium experts say

Sep 5, 2025

By Madeleine Teahan

Entrepreneurs, academics, and clergy came together in Scotland’s capital to tackle the ethics of emerging AI technologies in the context... Read more

Bishop Erik Varden.

Norwegian bishops warn of euthanasia support ahead of parliamentary election

Aug 30, 2025

By AC Wimmer

Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim and Bishop Fredrik Hansen of Oslo also voiced concern about growing political support for euthanasia. Read more

Migrants walk alongside the railroad tracks after dismounting from the “La Bestia” train, which they rode through Mexico to reach the Mexico-U.S. border near Chihuahua, Mexico, on Sept. 27, 2023.

Catholic moms launch ‘Dorothea Project’ to help migrants

Jul 28, 2025

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

The Dorothea Project seeks to defend human dignity, respond to injustice, and educate others in Catholic social teaching. Read more

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CNA explains: How the Catholic view of human rights developed

Jun 24, 2025

By Jonah McKeown

The concept of human rights within Catholic teaching is not a recent addition but rather has roots extending back to... Read more

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims during his general audience on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV signals focus on AI with nod to Leo XIII’s social teaching legacy

May 29, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

The new pontiff has signaled the direction he intends to take his papacy in handling certain social questions that need... Read more

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134 years later, Rerum Novarum inspires Leo XIV and still shapes Catholic social teaching

May 15, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

Today, on the 134th anniversary of the release of Rerum Novarum, CNA takes a look at the significance of this... Read more

Pope Leo XIV addresses the College of Cardinals at the Vatican on May 10, 2025. The newly elected pontiff outlined his vision for his papacy in his first official meeting.

Pope Leo XIV shares vision for papacy in age of artificial intelligence

May 10, 2025

By AC Wimmer

Pope Leo XIV explained his choice of name and the Church’s social teaching in the face of artificial intelligence and... Read more

Pope Francis speaks at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 23, 2024. An altar painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Francesco de Rhoden inside the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Rome, Italy.

Sacred Heart shows path forward in AI era, Pope Francis says in new encyclical ‘Dilexit Nos’

Oct 24, 2024

By AC Wimmer

Pope Francis released “Dilexit Nos,” the first encyclical on the Sacred Heart in nearly 70 years, arguing Catholic devotion offers... Read more

Peter Sonski, presidential candidate for the American Solidarity Party, greets a fellow presidential candidate,  pro-life Democrat Terrisa Bukovinac, following a speech at the Catholic University of America.

American Solidarity Party fights for ballot access state-by-state

Sep 3, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

The ASP’s presidential candidate, Peter Sonski —a pro-life Catholic — has managed to qualify to appear on voters’ ballots in... Read more

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As EU plans new vaccine passport, Catholic experts call for pandemic response review

Aug 29, 2024

By AC Wimmer

Catholic experts weigh in as a new initiative, dubbed “European Vaccination Beyond COVID-19,” aims at establishing a Europe-wide vaccination card... Read more

Pope Francis on the morning of June 7, 2023 shortly before heading to the hospital for abdominal surgery greets pilgrims at his general audience in St. Peter's Square.

Pope Francis sends message from hospital to European political party

Jun 11, 2023

By Courtney Mares

In a letter to the European People’s Party, the pope urged politicians to be united on “issues where primary ethical... Read more

Pope Francis speaking to Spanish entrepreneurs at the Vatican, Oct. 17, 2022.

Pope Francis calls on entrepreneurs to be ‘prophets’

Oct 17, 2022

By AC Wimmer

Pope Francis has called on entrepreneurs to be “prophets” and transform the economy to ethical principles. Read more

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U.S. bishops urge Senate to pass protections for working moms in Labor Day message

Sep 5, 2022

By Carl Bunderson

In their message for Labor Day, the U.S. bishops have urged the passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act as... Read more

A demonstration in favor of student debt forgiveneness near Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, April 3, 2021.

What to know about Biden’s student loan forgiveness program

Aug 29, 2022

By Edie Heipel

President Biden’s student loan forgiveness announcement last week unleashed a flurry of opinions from both sides of the political and... Read more

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., pictured at the Vatican on Oct. 10, 2018, before he received the red hat.

Bishops to hold meeting on Church’s social teaching to show ‘Catholics are alive in Europe’

Dec 10, 2021

By Hannah Brockhaus

The 3rd European Catholic Social Days will be held in March in Slovakia. Read more

Pope Francis meets with the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation at the Vatican on Oct. 23, 2021.

Pope Francis: Our response to injustice must be more than condemnation

Oct 23, 2021

By Courtney Mares

Denunciation is not enough when it comes to issues of injustice, the pope said this weekend. Read more

A screenshot of Pope Francis speaking during the fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements Oct. 16, 2021

Pope Francis: Catholic social teaching has useful principles for popular movements to follow

Oct 16, 2021

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis spoke over video call to participants in the fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements. Read more

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley preaching during Mass in the cathedral in 2021.

Marking Labor Day, archbishop urges Catholics to pray and work for an economy that respects the common good

Sep 6, 2021

By Jonah McKeown

A US archbishop has urged Catholics to pray and work for an economy that respects the common good, as the... Read more