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Attorney and columnist Andrea Picciotti-Bayer (above) was named the winner of the Religious Freedom Impact Award by the Religious Freedom Institute on July 2, 2025. / Credit: Courtesy of Andrea Picciotti-Bayer CNA Newsroom, Jul 4, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Andrea Picciotti-Bayer is the 2025 recipient of the Religious Freedom Impact Award, the Religious Freedom…
Cardinal Dominique Mathieu, archbishop of Tehran, Iran (left), and Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 4, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Here’s a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week that you might have missed: Pope appoints Pizzaballa and Mathieu to Vatican’s interreligious dialogue…
The National Catholic Bioethics Center’s Edward J. Furton speaks at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., on June 25, 2025. / Credit: Tessa Gervasini/CNA Washington D.C., Jul 4, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Ahead of the celebration of Independence Day, Edward Furton, publications director for The National Catholic Bioethics Center, spoke in a lecture…
null / Credit: NDAB Creativity/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 4, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). On July 4, Americans celebrate their country’s independence — as well as the people who formed the United States into the country that it is today. Those include American saints. Here are 11 American saints who dedicated their lives to…
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican Secretary for Relations of States, and Laura Hochla, chargé d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, addressed the crowd at Villa Richardson on June 30, 2025, in Rome, where Fourth of July was celebrated this year with a special milestone: the recent election of the first pope…
null / Credit: Stephen Kiers/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 3, 2025 / 17:46 pm (CNA). Congress has approved a historic school choice scholarship program designed to help families send their children to the schools of their choice — a “weakened” form of a program long anticipated by the U.S. Catholic bishops. With the passage of the…
USCCB President Archbishop Timothy Broglio speaks at the bishops’ spring meeting, Thursday, June 13, 2024. / Credit: USCCB CNA Staff, Jul 3, 2025 / 18:38 pm (CNA). The U.S. House of Representatives passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” on Thursday, just in time for President Donald Trump to schedule his signing into law of…
Pope Leo XIV prays with pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for his general audience on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA CNA Staff, Jul 3, 2025 / 16:50 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of July is for formation in discernment. “Let us pray that…
The Wisconsin Supreme Court building in Madison, Wisconsin. / Credit: Richard Hurd/Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Jul 3, 2025 / 15:03 pm (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news. Wisconsin Catholic leaders decry repealed abortion ban After the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a historic pro-life law was unenforceable, the Wisconsin Catholic…
null / Credit: Wolfgang Schaller|Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 3, 2025 / 15:33 pm (CNA). The U.S. Supreme Court during its next term will consider two cases addressing whether or not states can ban males from participating in female sports leagues. The high court said on Thursday that it would hear arguments in Hecox v. Little,…
