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The city of Baltimore. / Credit: Sean Pavone/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 20, 2025 / 15:20 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Baltimore has been accused of defying a Vatican order after allegedly refusing to reopen a Maryland parish despite a letter from the Holy See halting its closure. In the spring of 2024 Archbishop William…
Planned Parenthood gets millions of dollars in federal support each year. / Credit: Ken Wolter/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 20, 2025 / 14:50 pm (CNA). Two American Catholic bishops are hailing a Republican-led legislative effort to end certain taxpayer funds for abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood as well as an attempt to block funding…
Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City Missouri. / Credit: eurobanks/Shutterstock St. Louis, Mo., May 20, 2025 / 12:32 pm (CNA). Republican lawmakers in Missouri approved a new referendum last week that, if passed by voters, could reinstate many of the state’s pro-life laws, largely undoing a previous statewide referendum that expanded abortion rights a few…
Italian Cardinal Baldassare Reina was created a cardinal by Pope Francis during the consistory at St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 7, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, May 20, 2025 / 10:43 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV, in one of his first personnel appointments, on Monday named Cardinal Baldassare Reina grand chancellor of the…
Cardinal William Goh speaks to EWTN News Vice President Matthew Bunson in Rome on Monday, April 19, 2025. / Credit: EWTN News Vatican City, May 20, 2025 / 11:20 am (CNA). Singapore’s Cardinal William Goh believes Pope Leo XIV will build a greater unity within the Church, particularly for Catholic faithful often divided on matters…
Pope Leo XIV and St. Nicholas of Tolentine. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News; Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel of the Augustinian Order Lima Newsroom, May 20, 2025 / 09:21 am (CNA). Perhaps many Catholics wonder who Pope Leo XIV’s favorite saint is. A Peruvian missionary priest who is a close friend and confidant…
As prior of the Augustinians (below, in a white shirt), in 2003 Leo XIV visited the Valley of the Fallen with a group of young people. / Credit: Courtesy of Israel @profedeprimari on X Madrid, Spain, May 20, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic…
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois. / Credit: Diocese of Springfield in Illinois Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 19, 2025 / 17:57 pm (CNA). Bishop Thomas Paprocki, Bishop Kevin Rhoades, and Father Thomas Ferguson will join an advisory board for President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, according to a statement from the White House. The three…
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) speaks to journalists at the Sirius Educational Center in Sochi on May 19, 2025, after a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump. / Credit: VYACHESLAV PROKOFYEV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, May 19, 2025 / 17:25 pm (CNA)….
Part of Centennial Christian Church in St. Louis collapsed on Friday, May 16, 2025, when severe storms, including a possible tornado, swept through the city. / Credit: AP Photo/Michael Phillis St. Louis, Mo., May 19, 2025 / 16:07 pm (CNA). A mile-wide tornado tore through the northern part of St. Louis on Friday, causing over…
