Andre Mahanna, a former Maronite Catholic priest. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot St. Louis, Missouri, Dec 4, 2025 / 18:06 pm (CNA). Andre Mahanna, a former Maronite Catholic priest who gained a national profile as a commentator, fundraiser, and advocate for persecuted Christians is continuing to present himself as a priest despite having been dismissed…

St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. / Credit: Xosema (CC BY-SA 4.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 4, 2025 / 13:37 pm (CNA). The Vatican published on Dec. 4 the summary of the work carried out by the commissions studying the possibility of admitting women to the diaconate, presented to Pope Leo XIV by Cardinal Giuseppe…

Bishop Michael Fisher outside the meeting hall during the 2019 USCCB General Assembly, June 12, 2019. / Credit: Kate Veik/CNA CNA Staff, Dec 4, 2025 / 14:07 pm (CNA). Buffalo, New York, Bishop Michael Fisher is permitting Catholics to meet at diocesan parishes while they work to oppose diocesan-mandated parish closures, with the bishop reversing…

The Ten Commandments outside the Texas capitol. / Credit: BLundin via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 4, 2025 / 14:37 pm (CNA). First Liberty Institute and Heather Gebelin Hacker of Hacker Stephens LLP have filed an amicus brief on behalf of 46 United States lawmakers urging the federal court to allow the…