null / Credit: sergign/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 23, 2025 / 10:07 am (CNA). A federal judge in California this week issued a permanent block against the state’s “gender secrecy policies” that have allowed schools to hide children’s so-called “gender transitions” from their parents. U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez issued the ruling in the class…
Sister Tiziana Merletti meets with nuns and aspirants at Mary House in Tejgaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in December 2025. / Credit: Father Apu Rozario, CSC EWTN News, Dec 23, 2025 / 10:52 am (CNA). Sister Tiziana Merletti, SFP, secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, visited Bangladesh Dec. 16–21,…
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When Catholics of earlier generations opened their missals in 1954, they held in their hands not a mere schedule of ceremonies but the living memory of the Church. Each page testified to the slow, organic growth of the Roman Rite through the centuries—a harmony of theology, devotion, and asceticism that sanctified every day of the…
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Father Manuel Chouciño. / Credit: ACI Prensa Madrid, Spain, Dec 23, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Father Manuel Chouciño, an expert in new evangelization who has surprised many by organizing an escape room in a Spanish monastery, is convinced that Catholics “are in vogue” because people “are tired of feeling so empty.” Having arrived just…
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Recently, I had occasion to pull down from the shelves a copy of John Donne’s collected poetry, republished in 2012 by a major press, with a new introduction and notes. I was going to discuss one of the stanzas in Donne’s “La Corona,” a crown-poem, as the last line of each of the seven stanzas…
One by one, as though on a conga line for the Democratic National Committee, our bishops last November recited a scripted Instagram paean to illegal immigration. Moreover, at the end of their recent November meeting, it was reported that they also, by overwhelming majority, huffed and puffed: “We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of peoples.”…
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