Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Angelus address on July 6, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jul 28, 2025 / 13:09 pm (CNA). The Vatican welcomes more than a thousand social media influencers to Rome this week for an event intended to shape a new generation…

null / Credit: Deemerwha studio/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 28, 2025 / 13:40 pm (CNA). The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has invited Americans to participate in a daily prayer to St. Joseph, defender of life, to stop federal funding of the abortion industry. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the USCCB, and Bishop…

St. John Paul II in the popemobile amid the enthusiasm of 2 million young people at World Youth Day in 2000. / Credit: Vatican Media/Osservatore Romano Vatican City, Jul 28, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Twenty-five years have gone by since St. John Paul II transformed the Tor Vergata esplanade in the south of Rome…

Sister Nancy Usselmann and Daughters of St. Paul at Pauline Books and Media. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Daughters of St. Paul Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 28, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms the way we consume and create media, the “media nuns” are on a mission to ensure humanity stays…

Migrants walk alongside the railroad tracks after dismounting from the “La Bestia” train, which they rode through Mexico to reach the Mexico-U.S. border near Chihuahua, Mexico, on Sept. 27, 2023. / Credit: David Peinado Romero/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 28, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). A group of Catholic mothers in the U.S., inspired by Catholic…