Cardinal Robert McElroy gives his first homily as the shepherd of the Archdiocese of Washington at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on March 11, 2025. / Credit: Patrick Ruddy/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 6, 2025 / 16:30 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Washington has announced plans to “cut spending, reduce…

Pope Leo XIV speaks with prisoners who attended his general audience on June 4, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 6, 2025 / 14:45 pm (CNA). Two prisoners currently serving sentences in Rome’s Rebibbia prison obtained special permission to participate in Pope Leo XIV’s general audience this past Wednesday. “We received an official…

St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. / Credit: Harmony Video Production/Shutterstock ACI MENA, Jun 6, 2025 / 15:30 pm (CNA). The future of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula remains a source of controversy, with tensions rising after a recent court ruling that transferred the site to state ownership while granting the…

Princeton Professor Robert George speaks to “EWTN Pro-Life Weekly” anchor Abigail Galván on Thursday, June 5, 2025. / Credit: “EWTN Pro-Life Weekly” Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 6, 2025 / 13:45 pm (CNA). A nationwide grassroots movement aspires to bring Americans together through shared beliefs in both God and country, a prominent political philosopher said this…

Stills from a video shared with EWTN News and taken by the pilgrims on May 30, 2025, while the procession was in the Diocese of Tulsa, Oklahoma, show Catholic participants in the procession walking and singing while a young man on the sidelines, speaking through a bullhorn and walking alongside the crowd, deplores Eucharistic devotion…