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A New Jersey former parish bookkeeper has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from two parishes, June 3, 2025. / Credit: Zack McCarthy via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) CNA Staff, Jun 4, 2025 / 13:21 pm (CNA). A former parish employee in New Jersey has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from two parishes several…
Pope Leo XIV gives a blessing to memebers of the National Italian American Foundation in their meeting on June 4, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 4, 2025 / 11:34 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV met with the National Italian American Foundation on Wednesday and blessed their work in continuing…
Pope Leo XIV blesses a small attendee at the general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, June 4. 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 4, 2025 / 10:09 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV held the third general audience of his pontificate on Wednesday, telling the faithful that even when we feel useless…
Sister Angela Musolesi served as an assistant to renowned exorcist priest Gabriel Amorth for 28 years. / Credit: Nicolás de Cárdenas/ACI Prensa Madrid, Spain, Jun 4, 2025 / 10:47 am (CNA). Sister Angela Musolesi was born in the small Italian town of Budrio on Dec. 8, 1954, the centennial year of the proclamation of the…
null / Credit: PIGAMA/Shutterstock National Catholic Register, Jun 4, 2025 / 09:39 am (CNA). The bishop of Charlotte, North Carolina, has delayed his plan to restrict the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) in his diocese, pushing the date back by nearly three months after a week and a half of significant backlash in North Carolina and…
Fom the Easter Vigil Mass in St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, April 2025. / Credit: John McElroy CNA Staff, Jun 4, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The recent election of Pope Leo XIV has sparked new interest in Catholicism, with Google data showing a spike in searches on “how to become Catholic” shortly after the death…
Pittsburgh Bishop-elect Mark Eckman / Credit: Courtesy of the Diocese of Pittsburgh Vatican City, Jun 4, 2025 / 07:30 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday appointed Pittsburgh Auxiliary Bishop Mark Eckman to lead the northern U.S. diocese, with the bishop-elect succeeding Bishop David Zubik in that role. Leo accepted Zubik’s resignation June 4. The…
This year’s class of ordinandi at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers. Bishop Joseph Massa is seated in the center. / Credit: Theo Deluhery, Diocese of Camden New York City, N.Y., Jun 4, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). In the Archdiocese of New York, where ordinations to the priesthood have sharply declined in recent decades, a…
The Illinois state capitol in Springfield, where assisted suicide legislation stalled after passing in the House on May 29, 2025. / Credit: E Fehrenbacher/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 3, 2025 / 16:20 pm (CNA). A bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Illinois was not called for a vote in the Senate before the Legislature adjourned on…
The popemobile used by Pope Francis during his visit to Bethlehem in 2014. / Credit: Courtesy of Caritas ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 3, 2025 / 14:50 pm (CNA). Prior to his death, Pope Francis donated the popemobile he used during his visit to Bethlehem in May 2014 to be turned into a mobile clinic to…
