Bishop William Byrne of the Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts, gives the keynote address at the 2024 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Feb. 8, 2024. / Credit: EWTN Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 9, 2025 / 17:08 pm (CNA). As lawmakers consider rules related to the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the United States Conference…

Waymo cars are set on fire and vandalized during a protest against immigration raids on June 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. / Credit: Nick Ut/Getty Images CNA Staff, Jun 9, 2025 / 17:38 pm (CNA). Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest Catholic community, issued a statement calling for “restraint and calm”…

Statue of St. John the Baptist with golden cross, Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic. / Credit: Oldrich Barak/Shutterstock Vatican City, Jun 9, 2025 / 15:31 pm (CNA). How to communicate with hope in today’s Europe? That is the question a group of Church communicators and journalists tackled during a June 3–5 meeting in Prague organized…

The Texas State Capitol in Austin. / Credit: Gang Liu/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 9, 2025 / 16:06 pm (CNA). A federal judge has overturned the long-standing “Texas Dream Act” in a move the state’s Catholic bishops say undermines “just” immigration reform efforts.  After the U.S. Department of Justice sued the state of Texas over the…

Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Stockholm at the consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica on June 28, 2017. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Stockholm, Sweden, Jun 9, 2025 / 14:30 pm (CNA). The conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV was first and foremost a unifying experience, despite the frantic pace and intrigue, said Swedish Cardinal Anders Arborelius. “The…

Mass in a Catholic church in Cotia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Jan. 25, 2020. / Credit: wtondossantos/Shuttestock Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jun 9, 2025 / 13:30 pm (CNA). The percentage of Brazilians who identify as Catholic fell to 56.75% in 2022, a reduction of 8.4% compared with 2010, according to data from the 2022 demographic census…