Category: Church News

Bishop Mark Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia. / Credit: Archdiocese of Baltimore Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 14:33 pm (CNA). As officials carry out mass deportations across the United States, Bishop Mark Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, is criticizing the Trump administration’s policy of deporting “as many immigrants as possible” without “distinguishing between…

null / Credit: ElenaR/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 7, 2025 / 11:21 am (CNA). Prosecutors say a Catholic priest in Pennsylvania has confessed to falsifying the results of a high-level raffle at his parish. Father Ross Miceli allegedly “admitted to publicly falsifying the results of the grand prize winner” of a raffle at St. Jude the…

Assets sold to help pay an abuse settlement include the Diocese of Buffalo’s former headquarters, pictured, here, in downtown Buffalo, New York. / Credit: Warren LeMay/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 CNA Staff, Aug 7, 2025 / 11:51 am (CNA). The Diocese of Buffalo is reportedly dismissing a substantial number of workers at its headquarters as it…

Left to right: Negative photo of the frontal image of the man of the shroud. A side view of the sculpture, “The Sign,” which depicts the man of the shroud. / Credit: Copyright 1978, Vernon Miller/Copyright Collection of Gilbert Lavoie Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 10:51 am (CNA). The Shroud of Turin is…

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Aug. 5, 2025, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Some Christian and conservative organizations are expressing optimism that President Donald Trump may rein in “debanking”…

An aerial view of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. / Credit: arindambanerjee/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 7, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). On the morning of Sunday, Aug. 3, nine people working at an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, were kidnapped. Among them was a lay missionary and a disabled child, barely 3 years old. According…

Members of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO). / Credit: CENCO ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 7, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reported that the bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo are demanding justice following the massacre perpetrated by a group linked to the…

St. Hedwig Cathedral in Berlin, Germany. / Credit: Cedric BLN via Wikimedia (Public domain) CNA Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 09:23 am (CNA). German bishops are divided sharply over implementing blessing guidelines for same-sex couples, with a comprehensive survey by katholisch.de revealing stark divisions across the country’s 27 dioceses, three months after the publication of…

null / Credit: H4stings, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 09:53 am (CNA). Marine Rosset, the newly appointed president of France’s largest Catholic-inspired scouting organization, resigned less than two months after her election amid intense criticism over her support for abortion rights and her homosexual relationship. After announcing her…

Kiko Argüello and young people from the Neocatechumenal Way at Tor Vergata on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 6, 2025 / 16:16 pm (CNA). About 120,000 young people from the Neocatechumenal Way participated in a gathering on Aug. 4, the feast day of the Curé of Ars, to…