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Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA CNA Staff, Jun 18, 2025 / 16:23 pm (CNA). Leading Catholic voices in New York, including Cardinal Timothy Dolan, are urging the state’s Catholic governor to veto an assisted suicide bill that has no wait period or psychological evaluation requirement. “This is the cheapening of…
Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims at his general audience in St. Peter’s Square on June 18, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 18, 2025 / 14:25 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on June 18 renewed his strong call for peace, urging people to not “get used to war.” Addressing pilgrims at the end…
Scenes from the beatification of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a Congolese martyr, in Rome on Sunday, June 15, 2025. In a Monday, June 16, audience with pilgrims from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who traveled for the beatification of Bwana Chui at the Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls, the Holy Father said:…
Father Theodore Gabrielli, SJ. / Credit: San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office CNA Staff, Jun 18, 2025 / 12:27 pm (CNA). A priest in California has been arrested and charged with acts of child sex abuse that reportedly occurred through the 1990s. Police arrested Father Theodore Gabrielli last week on charges of aggravated sexual assault…
Pope Leo XIV spoke about how Christ can heal our past during the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square on June 18, 2025. / Credit Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Jun 18, 2025 / 06:03 am (CNA). After a turn in the popemobile to greet thousands of faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his…
Delegates at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 17, 2025. / Credit: ACI Africa ACI Africa, Jun 18, 2025 / 09:46 am (CNA). Martha Karambu Koome, the chief justice in Kenya, called upon delegates at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit in Nairobi this week to have a “united stance”…
Over 450 boys and girls received their first holy Communion during liturgies held over the past month in various churches of the town of Qaraqosh, Iraq. / Credit: Syriac Catholic Archdiocese of Mosul, Iraq ACI MENA, Jun 18, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Amid renewed tensions in the Middle East, the Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of…
Pope Leo XIV spoke about how Christ can heal our past during the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square on June 18, 2025. / Credit Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Jun 18, 2025 / 06:03 am (CNA). After a turn in the popemobile to greet thousands of faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the…
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks at the USCCB fall plenary assembly Nov. 14, 2023. / Credit: USCCB video Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 17, 2025 / 18:26 pm (CNA). As the Trump administration steps up immigration enforcement actions throughout the country, U.S. bishops are raising their voices in solidarity…
The British Parliament building in London. / Credit: Marinesea/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 17, 2025 / 18:46 pm (CNA). British lawmakers have voted to decriminalize abortions in England and Wales in a move that pro-life advocates and medical professionals say could endanger women and unborn children. The House of Commons — the publicly-elected house of Parliament…
