Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, speaks about a sanctions plan to increase pressure on the Nigerian government amid ongoing Christian persecution on Dec. 9, 2025. / Credit: Madalaine Elhabbal/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 10, 2025 / 15:30 pm (CNA). U.S. President Donald Trump is crafting a sanctions plan to increase pressure on the Nigerian government…
Sister Norma Pimentel spoke with the Holy Father at the Oct. 2, 2025 meeting. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 10, 2025 / 16:00 pm (CNA). The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has suspended Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley from receiving federal funding, according to the charity group. The Catholic Charities…
Sister Lucia, visionary of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal. / Credit: Fatima Shrine ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 10, 2025 / 16:22 pm (CNA). Today, Dec. 10, marks the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Sister Lucia of Fatima in Pontevedra province in Spain, where the devotion of the Five First…
Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Caracas, Venezuela, Dec 10, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA). On Dec. 10 Venezuelan immigration police confiscated and invalidated the passport of Cardinal Baltazar Porras, the archbishop emeritus of Caracas, as he was preparing to travel to Bogotá, Colombia, from Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía. According to the…
null / Credit: Rohane Hamilton/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 10, 2025 / 18:00 pm (CNA). The House passed a defense authorization bill Dec. 10 without a provision to allow health care coverage of in vitro fertilization for active-duty military. Pro-life groups cheered the provision’s removal from the bill. The original bill would have required Defense…
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Above: the Sistine Chapel, where papal conclaves take place. My previous article on Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio elicited several responses, including several very generous ones from some sedevacantists in agreement. Yet, I feel the need to turn to the response of Mr. Jackson of Hiereth in Exile, who wrote a response on his substack claiming…
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Notre Dame College in Mymensingh district, Bangladesh / Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec 10, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA). The president of the Bangladesh Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Bejoy D’Cruze of Dhaka, has expressed concern after threats against two prominent Catholic colleges posed “a grave concern for the Catholic Church,” particularly ahead of…
The flag of the European Union. / Credit: U. J. Alexander/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 10, 2025 / 12:35 pm (CNA). The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) has expressed concern about a recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union, which obliges all member states to recognize…
