Firefighters run as a brush fire burns in Pacific Palisades, California, on Jan. 7, 2025. A fast-moving brushfire in a Los Angeles suburb burned buildings and sparked evacuations as “life-threatening” winds whipped the region. / Credit: David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images Seattle, Wash., Jan 8, 2025 / 21:58 pm (CNA). A raging wildfire in the…

Students at St. Dominic Academy in Auburn, Maine. / Credit: Courtesy of Becket CNA Staff, Jan 8, 2025 / 18:00 pm (CNA). Catholic parents who live in rural Maine — far from any public schools — are challenging a state law that excludes most faith-based schools from Maine’s rural tuition assistance program.   Maine’s tuition assistance…

Cardinal Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Newark, New Jersey. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Prensa Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 8, 2025 / 18:20 pm (CNA). Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, in a letter addressed to clergy, religious, and faithful announced the launch of a multiyear “pastoral conversion” plan for the archdiocese based on the…

A priest gives Communion to children at the 53rd International Eucharistic Congress in Quito, Ecuador, on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. / Credit: Eduardo Berdejo/EWTN News Lima Newsroom, Jan 8, 2025 / 14:40 pm (CNA). The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has announced the launch of its annual collection in support of the Church’s…