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The scene outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., after the court released its decision in the Dobbs abortion case on June 24, 2022. / Credit: Katie Yoder/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 24, 2025 / 15:47 pm (CNA). Three years after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision,…
Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta. / Credit: Thomson200, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Jun 24, 2025 / 16:17 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Atlanta and Emory Healthcare have announced a new sponsorship agreement that will preserve the Catholic identity and mission of Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital. Atlanta’s first hospital, founded in 1880 by…
The pontiff warned of the risk of a superficial spiritual life “in an age of hyperconnectivity” in which it becomes increasingly “difficult to experience silence and solitude,” emphasizing that without an encounter with God, “we cannot even truly know ourselves.” / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 24, 2025 / 16:37 pm (CNA). On June…
Mass at a cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan, after the U.S. dropped a nuclear weapon on the city in August of 1945. The Japanese bishops asked for international nuclear disarmament in a June 20, 2025, letter. / Credit: Nagasaki City Office (長崎市役所), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 24, 2025 / 17:07 pm…
Pope Leo XIV waves to those gathered for Mass on the solemnity of Corpus Christi on Sunday, June 22, 2025, in Rome. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 24, 2025 / 14:47 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday said he was “deeply saddened” by the terrorist attack on a church in Damascus,…
Over 3,000 Catholics filled the streets of Portland, Oregon, on Sunday, June 22, 2025, for a major Eucharistic procession led by Archbishop Alexander Sample. / Credit: Dylan Encarnacion Portland, Ore., Jun 24, 2025 / 15:17 pm (CNA). Over 3,000 Catholics filled the streets of Portland, Oregon, on Sunday for a Eucharistic procession led by Archbishop…
Seminarian Thomas Hammen smiles in view of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome on Tuesday. June 24, 2025. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Vatican City, Jun 24, 2025 / 13:47 pm (CNA). More than 2,500 seminarians from 57 countries converged on Rome this week to pray at the tomb of St. Peter, receive a blessing from Pope…
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, in an interview with ACI MENA, CNA’s Arabic-language news partner, emphasized that the Catholic Church in the Holy Land must remain “open”: “The Church must remain open and accessible to all. This is absolutely essential. Everyone must be able to reach us, we must be a point…
null / Credit: Wolfgang Schaller/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 24, 2025 / 12:37 pm (CNA). The Supreme Court this week said it will decide whether prisoners can sue individual prison workers — rather than merely the government itself — over violations of a key U.S. religious liberty law. The high court on Monday granted certiorari in…
Pope Leo XIV meets with the Order of Malta’s grand master, Fra’ John Dunlap, and members of the Order of Malta on June 23, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 24, 2025 / 13:12 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV in a message to the Order of Malta underlined the order’s…
