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Kao Chih Hao, a recent Taiwanese convert to Catholicism, at Holy Rosary Parish in Taipei, Taiwan, in October 2025. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Taipei, Taiwan, Oct 30, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). St. John Henry Newman has inspired many “Newman converts” to follow his path of conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism, including a 24-year-old Taiwanese man…
Faustina Academy, a K–12 private school in Irving, Texas, bans social media use among its students, and parents have been totally supportive. / Credit: Faustina Academy CNA Staff, Oct 30, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). As the harmful effects of smartphone use on children become more well known, one school in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex…
A new stamp issued by the Irish postal service honors Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who saved 6,500 news in Rome during World War II. / Credit: An Post Dublin, Ireland, Oct 29, 2025 / 13:51 pm (CNA). The Irish postal service has released a new postage stamp marking the 100th anniversary of the ordination of Monsignor…
U.S. Catholic bishops urged lawmakers on Oct. 28, 2025, to find a solution to end the government shutdown. / Credit: usarmyband, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 29, 2025 / 14:21 pm (CNA). Catholic bishops in the United States are urging federal lawmakers to find a solution that opens the government…
Former U.S. Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli. / Credit: DHSgov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 29, 2025 / 14:59 pm (CNA). Catholics who do not gather for anti-enforcement rallies organized by high-ranking Catholic prelates are a “silent majority,” according to conservative Catholic immigration experts. As the Trump administration’s…
null / Credit: vmargineanu/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 29, 2025 / 15:29 pm (CNA). A man accused of fatally stabbing a Nebraska Catholic priest has pleaded guilty to the murder of Father Stephen Gutgsell and other charges. Gutgsell, 65, died after deputies found him stabbed in December 2023. Gutgsell had been serving as the parish…
Archbishop Georg Gänswein speaks at a conference on the Šiluva Declaration in Šiluva, Lithuania, on Sept. 4, 2024. / Credit: Juozas Kamenskas Šiluva, Lithuania, Oct 29, 2025 / 15:59 pm (CNA). Twenty years after then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger warned of a “dictatorship of relativism” on the eve of his election as Pope Benedict XVI, his former…
Mar Awa III presents a Chicago Cubs jersey to Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 27, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 29, 2025 / 16:29 pm (CNA). His Holiness Mar Awa III, Catholicos-patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, traveled to Rome this week to participate in a ceremony commemorating the…
Speaker Edward Sri gives a talk on Jan. 4, 2025, at SEEK25 in Salt Lake City. / Credit: Kate Quiñones/CNA CNA Staff, Oct 29, 2025 / 16:59 pm (CNA). The Fellowship of Catholic University Students’ (FOCUS) SEEK conference is set to take place in three cities for the first time in 2026. The conference will…
Pope Leo XIV arrives in St. Peter’s Square for his weekly general audience on Oct. 29, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News Vatican City, Oct 29, 2025 / 08:55 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday strongly condemned antisemitism during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square marking the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the…
