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Monsignor Stephen Rossetti is the keynote speaker at the 2025 National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors conference. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Monsignor Stephen Rossetti Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2025 / 17:27 pm (CNA). This week hundreds of vocation directors, staff, and collaborators are gathering to draw closer to Christ, grow in brotherhood, and…
null / Credit: Aykut Erdogdu/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). President Donald Trump’s administration has started to incorporate some elements of pro-life reproductive health care into its policy goals, which pro-life advocates argue are alternatives to in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures meant to address fertility problems. So far the inclusion…
Bishop José Arturo Cepeda. / Credit: Courtesy of the Archdiocese of Detroit Vatican City, Aug 26, 2025 / 09:45 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday appointed Detroit Auxiliary Bishop José Arturo Cepeda as auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of San Antonio. The transfer marks the Mexican-born bishop’s return to San Antonio, the south-central Texas…
Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims during his general audience on July 30, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 26, 2025 / 12:53 pm (CNA). “Peace Be With You All: Towards an Unarmed and Disarming Peace” will be the theme for the 2026 World Day of…
Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston, Minnesota, announced in a video message Aug. 20, 2025, that he will soon open the sainthood cause of Sister Annella Zervas, OSB, making it the first sainthood cause ever opened in the northerly Minnesota diocese. / Credit: Diocese of Crookston; Joanne Zervas National Catholic Register, Aug 26, 2025 / 13:23…
null / Credit: maxim ibragimov/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2025 / 13:53 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis announced a new initiative that will “meet families where they are” as it helps them reclaim the Sabbath as a day dedicated to prayer and rest. The initiative, “Reclaiming Sundays: Recover Sunday as…
The Catholic bishops are backing a suit by a coalition of Apache Stronghold, a coalition of Native Americans and their supporters, in their lawsuit against the federal government. The lawsuit argues that their freedom of religion was violated when the federal government announced its intention to sell formerly protected land in Arizona to a mining…
The Vatican Gardens at Castel Gandolfo. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 26, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to inaugurate on Sept. 5 Borgo Laudato Si’, a development dedicated to the care of creation inspired by Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’. Located in Castel Gandolfo, the area will…
Celebrations for the geast of the Virgin Mary, Assiut–Egypt, August 2025. / Credit: ACI MENA ACI MENA, Aug 26, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). The Monastery of the Virgin Mary in Assiut, in southern Egypt, holds special significance. It is considered to be the final stop of the Holy Family’s journey in Egypt and includes…
Pope Leo XIV greets French altar servers during an audience on Aug. 25, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 25, 2025 / 16:57 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV said during an audience with French altar servers in Rome on Aug. 25, the feast day of St. Louis IX, king…
