Texas Catholic school bans social media, sees students thrive with parent support — By: Catholic News Agency

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…

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A ‘silent majority’ of U.S. Catholics support Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts — By: Catholic News Agency

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…

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Man pleads guilty to killing Catholic priest in Nebraska rectory  — By: Catholic News Agency

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…

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Archbishop Gänswein echoes Pope Benedict XVI’s warning on ‘dictatorship of relativism’ — By: Catholic News Agency

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…

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Catholic social scientists reframe perspective on retirement — By: Catholic News Agency

As Father Emmanuel Nanabanyin Conduah (right) looks on, PennWest University Professor Miguel Olivas-Luján (left) delivers his paper “Retiring for Eternity: Planning Based on Social Science and Catholic Social Thought” during the 2025 annual conference of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. / Credit: Ken Oliver-Méndez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct…

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