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null / Credit: Blue Planet Studio/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 6, 2025 / 10:31 am (CNA). Catholic bishops from Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C., released a pastoral letter this week addressing the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and the Church’s response to the numerous challenges and opportunities the technology presents. Signed by Baltimore Archbishop William…
Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his general audience on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 6, 2025 / 09:35 am (CNA). A group of European bishops have turned to Pope Leo XIV and the Holy See for help as the Court of Justice of the…
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, archbishop of Cologne in Germany. / Credit: Marko Orlovic/German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 6, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Here’s a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week that you might have missed: Petition to Pope Leo XIV to remove German cardinal gains over 60K signatures …
A statue of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in the Seton Legacy Garden at the Seton Shrine in Maryland. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Seton Shrine Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 6, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). This month the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton is hosting two pilgrimages to commemorate the 50-year anniversary…
Stained glass window of Blessed Carlo Acutis at St. Aldhelm’s in Malmesbury, England. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Thomas Kulandaisamy/Catholic Herald Vatican City, Jun 6, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). When will Carlo Acutis be canonized? That is the question Catholics are asking after the ceremony scheduled for April 27 was postponed due to…
Kentucky Capitol. / Credit: Alexey Stiop/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 5, 2025 / 17:34 pm (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news: Kentucky ACLU drops suit challenging state’s near-ban on abortion The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky recently dropped a lawsuit it filed last year challenging Kentucky’s protections for unborn children. …
The Embassy of Equatorial Guinea in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Kurt Kaiser, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 5, 2025 / 18:13 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump’s order this week to restrict foreign nationals in 19 countries from entering into the United States will impact six countries with a majority Catholic population and…
Pope Leo XIV greets members of the Vatican Secretariat of State on June 5, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 5, 2025 / 14:51 pm (CNA). In his audience with members of the Vatican Secretariat of State on Thursday, Pope Leo XIV thanked them for their support in the first…
Al Pacino as Father Theophilus Riesinger in “The Ritual.” / Credit: XYZ Films CNA Staff, Jun 5, 2025 / 15:21 pm (CNA). In 1928, Father Joseph Steiger, a priest at St. Joseph’s in Earling, Iowa, was approached with an urgent concern. A 46-year-old woman named Emma Schmidt was experiencing blackouts, aversions to holy objects, and…
Fairbanks, Alaska, Bishop Steven Maekawa, OP, said he plans to offer a special Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Fairbanks for Father Alphonsus Afina, who was captured by Boko Haram on June 1, 2025. / Credit: RadioKAOS, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Jun 5, 2025 / 16:09 pm (CNA). A Nigerian-born priest…
