Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd gathered on St. Peter’ s Square for the Regina Coeli on Sunday, May 11, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, May 15, 2025 / 16:03 pm (CNA). The pontificate of Pope Leo XIV can bring new impetus to the Church’s evangelical mission in the world today, theologian…

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Capitol Hill on May 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Samuel Corum/Getty Images CNA Staff, May 15, 2025 / 16:33 pm (CNA). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing…

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, with Sister Mary Bosco of the Sisters of Mercy, a 100-year-old Irish nun who taught him to “love and serve the Lord.” / Credit: Photo courtesy of Cardinal Dolan ACI Prensa Staff, May 15, 2025 / 17:03 pm (CNA). Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, shared a…

Pope Leo XIV gives a blessing during a meeting with participants in the Jubilee of Eastern Churches on May 14, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, May 15, 2025 / 15:33 pm (CNA). The Catholic Church’s first pope from the Augustinian order is already helping…

The Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville, Tennessee. / Credit: Nheyob, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, May 15, 2025 / 14:10 pm (CNA). Catholics in Nashville, Tennessee, are calling for the release of a man arrested by immigration officials last week amid broad efforts by the federal government to curb illegal immigration. …

Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White reads the thesis of then-Father Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, titled “The Role of the Local Prior in the Order of St. Augustine,” which Prevost wrote while a student at Rome’s Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in the early 1980s. / Credit: Zofia Czubak/EWTN News Vatican City, May…