Kentucky Capitol. / Credit: Alexey Stiop/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 5, 2025 / 17:34 pm (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news: Kentucky ACLU drops suit challenging state’s near-ban on abortion  The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky recently dropped a lawsuit it filed last year challenging Kentucky’s protections for unborn children.  …

The Embassy of Equatorial Guinea in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Kurt Kaiser, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 5, 2025 / 18:13 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump’s order this week to restrict foreign nationals in 19 countries from entering into the United States will impact six countries with a majority Catholic population and…

Pope Leo XIV greets members of the Vatican Secretariat of State on June 5, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 5, 2025 / 14:51 pm (CNA). In his audience with members of the Vatican Secretariat of State on Thursday, Pope Leo XIV thanked them for their support in the first…

Al Pacino as Father Theophilus Riesinger in “The Ritual.” / Credit: XYZ Films CNA Staff, Jun 5, 2025 / 15:21 pm (CNA). In 1928, Father Joseph Steiger, a priest at St. Joseph’s in Earling, Iowa, was approached with an urgent concern. A 46-year-old woman named Emma Schmidt was experiencing blackouts, aversions to holy objects, and…