University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. / Credit: Peter Zelasko/CNA CNA Staff, Sep 25, 2025 / 09:27 am (CNA). The University of Notre Dame said this week that it had commissioned an external investigation into allegations that the head of a campus residence hall engaged in sexual misconduct years ago.  The allegations concern…

AI-generated photographs of Pope Leo XIV appearing to fall down a flight of stairs outside St. Peter’s Basilica circulated on the internet in June. / Credit: CNA/Screenshot Vatican City, Sep 25, 2025 / 09:57 am (CNA). Did you hear what Pope Leo XIV said about Charlie Kirk or President Donald Trump? What about his thoughts…

Richmond Bishop Barry Knestout (center) joins community leaders including U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia (fifth from left), at a groundbreaking ceremony for Greenway Village at St. Elizabeth Parish in Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. / Credit: Mary Romanello/Romanello Photography CNA Staff, Sep 25, 2025 / 13:33 pm (CNA). A project to develop dozens…

The chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing, defended his country’s controversial guidelines on same-sex blessings this week, asserting that there was no contradiction with Vatican teaching, despite Pope Leo XIV’s recent criticism. / Credit: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz/Marko Orlovic CNA Deutsch, Sep 25, 2025 / 14:03 pm (CNA). The chairman of the German Bishops’…

From left: Ross Douthat, media fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology; Will Wilson, CEO of AI company Antithesis; Father Michael Baggot, LC, professor of bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome; and Brian J.A. Boyd, director for the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans discuss AI and…