null / Credit: ElenaR/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 7, 2025 / 11:21 am (CNA). Prosecutors say a Catholic priest in Pennsylvania has confessed to falsifying the results of a high-level raffle at his parish. Father Ross Miceli allegedly “admitted to publicly falsifying the results of the grand prize winner” of a raffle at St. Jude the…

Assets sold to help pay an abuse settlement include the Diocese of Buffalo’s former headquarters, pictured, here, in downtown Buffalo, New York. / Credit: Warren LeMay/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 CNA Staff, Aug 7, 2025 / 11:51 am (CNA). The Diocese of Buffalo is reportedly dismissing a substantial number of workers at its headquarters as it…

Left to right: Negative photo of the frontal image of the man of the shroud. A side view of the sculpture, “The Sign,” which depicts the man of the shroud. / Credit: Copyright 1978, Vernon Miller/Copyright Collection of Gilbert Lavoie Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 10:51 am (CNA). The Shroud of Turin is…

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Aug. 5, 2025, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Some Christian and conservative organizations are expressing optimism that President Donald Trump may rein in “debanking”…

An aerial view of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. / Credit: arindambanerjee/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 7, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). On the morning of Sunday, Aug. 3, nine people working at an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, were kidnapped. Among them was a lay missionary and a disabled child, barely 3 years old. According…

Members of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO). / Credit: CENCO ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 7, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reported that the bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo are demanding justice following the massacre perpetrated by a group linked to the…

St. Hedwig Cathedral in Berlin, Germany. / Credit: Cedric BLN via Wikimedia (Public domain) CNA Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 09:23 am (CNA). German bishops are divided sharply over implementing blessing guidelines for same-sex couples, with a comprehensive survey by katholisch.de revealing stark divisions across the country’s 27 dioceses, three months after the publication of…

null / Credit: H4stings, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 09:53 am (CNA). Marine Rosset, the newly appointed president of France’s largest Catholic-inspired scouting organization, resigned less than two months after her election amid intense criticism over her support for abortion rights and her homosexual relationship. After announcing her…