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Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar. / Credit: François-Régis Salefran CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Vatican City, Jul 1, 2025 / 14:47 pm (CNA). The leader of Africa’s Catholic bishops pushed back Tuesday on the narrative that it was only Africans who objected to a 2023 Vatican declaration…
Confessional. / Credit: AS photo studio/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 1, 2025 / 13:17 pm (CNA). The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, representing over 500 Roman Catholic priests and deacons from the U.S., Australia, and the United Kingdom, has issued a statement defending the inviolability of the seal of confession. The statement was released on June 27,…
Auxiliary Bishop Mark Rivituso of St. Louis blesses donations in a van used during the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in July 2024. On July 1, 2025, Pope Leo XIV appointed Rivituso archbishop of Mobile, Alabama. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA Vatican City, Jul 1, 2025 / 13:47 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Mark Rivituso,…
The icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa is displayed at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Sunday, June 29, 2025. / Credit: Courtesy of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 1, 2025 / 12:07 pm (CNA). More than 1,000 Catholics with Polish roots gathered…
Multiple advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against Colorado on June 30, 2025, claiming its assisted suicide law unconstitutionally discriminates against disabled people. / Credit: Patrick Thomas/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 1, 2025 / 11:36 am (CNA). A coalition of advocacy groups is suing the state of Colorado over its assisted suicide law, claiming the statute is…
Various award-winning members of the EWTN News team are shown here in Phoenix, including National Catholic Register Editor-in-Chief Shannon Mullen, EWTN News Special Initiatives Director Jeanette DeMelo, EWTN News Director of Digital Strategy and Social Media Úrsula Murúa, National Catholic Register Managing Editor Tom Wehner, Catholic News Agency reporter Kate Quiñones, and Catholic News Agency…
Carmen Sánchez Maíllo is academic secretary of the CEU Institute of Family Studies. / Credit: San Pablo CEU Madrid, Spain, Jul 1, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Analyzing the consequences of the law that equated same-sex unions with marriage in Spain 20 years ago, Carmen Sánchez Maíllo, academic secretary of the CEU (Center of University…
A student workshop at The College of St. Joseph the Worker. / Credit: College of St. Joseph the Worker Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 1, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). A lawsuit that seeks to block West Virginia from offering a Catholic trade college a $5 million grant will move forward after a judge rejected the…
Bishop Hilario González meets Pope Leo XIV during his June 23–27, 2025, visit to Rome. / Credit: Courtesy of Diocese of Saltillo, Mexico Vatican City, Jul 1, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Hilario González García, the bishop of Saltillo, Mexico, since 2021, recently made the pilgrimage to Rome for the Jubilee of Seminarians, Bishops, and…
Actor Jonathan Roumie, who portrays Jesus in “The Chosen.” / Credit: EWTN News/Colm Flynn/Screenshot CNA Staff, Jul 1, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). When Jonathan Roumie, the actor who plays Jesus in “The Chosen,” heard the news of the election of an American-born pope, he said he wept “because I just never thought I would…
