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Attorneys general from 16 states wrote a letter urging Congress to take action against abortion shield laws. / Credit: Traci L. Clever/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 31, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). State attorneys general across the country are banding together to oppose “abortion shield laws” that they say enable abortionists to bypass pro-life state laws….
St. John Henry Newman (1881). / Credit: Sir John Everett Millais/Public domain Vatican City, Jul 31, 2025 / 09:36 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Thursday approved the decision to declare St. John Henry Newman the 38th doctor of the universal Church. The decision to confer the title upon the 19th-century English saint — a…
A recent analysis of a controversial study confirmed that children raised by their intact, biological families fare better than children who were raised by same-sex attracted parents. / Credit: Kulniz/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 31, 2025 / 10:06 am (CNA). A recent “multiverse analysis” by Cornell sociologists Cristobal Young and Erin Cumberworth demonstrated the accuracy…
Signs hanging in the office of papal charities in Vatican City show the different models of papal blessing certificates that can be ordered, Tuesday, July 29, 2025. / Credit: Hannah Brockhaus/CNA Vatican City, Jul 31, 2025 / 10:41 am (CNA). The Vatican has seen a boom in requests for blessings from the new pope, with…
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster speaks with a police officer outside Westminster Cathedral in London, Nov. 9, 2021. / Credit: Mazur/cbcew.org.uk Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 31, 2025 / 11:41 am (CNA). Cardinal Vincent Nichols, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, (CBCEW) said he is “delighted and thrilled” that Pope Leo XIV…
Pope Leo XIV visits the historic telescopes located at the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo, 15 miles southeast of Rome, on July 20, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jul 31, 2025 / 12:11 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Thursday appointed astronomer Father Richard Anthony D’Souza, SJ, as the new director of the…
A wall with the image of “The Virgin Everywhere.” / Credit: Photo courtesy of “The Virgin Everywhere” project Puebla, Mexico, Jul 30, 2025 / 11:55 am (CNA). The “The Virgin Everywhere” project, which seeks to bring images of Our Lady of Guadalupe to every corner of the world, has completed its latest challenge: covering the…
Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, speaks with “EWTN News Nightly” on March 4, 2025. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot CNA Newsroom, Jul 30, 2025 / 09:45 am (CNA). Bishop Stefan Oster of Passau in Bavaria delivered a spirited defense of American Bishop Robert Barron while sharply condemning what he called “beige Catholicism” in Germany…
Journalism students have traveled from across the globe to Rome to take part in the fourth annual EWTN Summer Academy from July 21–31, 2025. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 30, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). This week, Pope Leo XIV welcomed journalism students to Rome who have traveled from across the…
Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, prelate of Opus Dei. / Credit: Opus Dei Communication Office Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jul 30, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Opus Dei has denounced the “manipulation of judicial proceedings to create a media and public opinion case” in the lawsuit advanced by former assistant numeraries in Argentina, which now seeks to implicate…
