null / Credit: Wolfgang Schaller/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 24, 2025 / 12:37 pm (CNA). The Supreme Court this week said it will decide whether prisoners can sue individual prison workers — rather than merely the government itself — over violations of a key U.S. religious liberty law. The high court on Monday granted certiorari in…

Pope Leo XIV meets with the Order of Malta’s grand master, Fra’ John Dunlap, and members of the Order of Malta on June 23, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 24, 2025 / 13:12 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV in a message to the Order of Malta underlined the order’s…

St. Mary Cathedral in Hamburg, Germany. / Credit: John Samuel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Deutsch, Jun 24, 2025 / 10:31 am (CNA). The Archdiocese of Hamburg in Germany has drawn sharp criticism from former Catholic school students and others following the unveiling of a controversial 33-page sexuality education framework that critics say…

Statue of St. John the Baptist with golden cross, Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic. / Credit: Oldrich Barak/Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Jun 24, 2025 / 11:13 am (CNA). St. John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, is one of only three people in history — after Jesus and Mary — whose birthday is celebrated in the…

Cassandra Baker, now a coordinator for the Catholic Montessori Institute, presents a math lesson introducing the decimal system to a 4-year-old student in spring 2023 at the Christ the King Catholic Montessori Grade School in Mandan, North Dakota. / Credit: Mike McCleary/University of Mary CNA Staff, Jun 24, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The University…