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Pope Leo XIV addresses more than 100 ambassadors in an audience on Friday, May 16, 2025, in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, May 16, 2025 / 11:59 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Friday said peaceful societies can be achieved if governments invested in families “founded upon the…
null / Credit: Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 16, 2025 / 12:34 pm (CNA). Budget initiatives backed by several Republican lawmakers to cut federal funding for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for the next fiscal year are facing opposition from prominent Catholic organizations. For Medicaid, the proposal would add work requirements…
Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. / Credit: Harrison Keely, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, May 16, 2025 / 10:39 am (CNA). A Georgia hospital is requiring that a pregnant woman who was declared brain dead more than 90 days ago remain on life support until the birth of her unborn child. In…
St. Hedwig’s Cathedral in Berlin, Germany. / Credit: Cedric BLN via Wikimedia (public domain) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 16, 2025 / 11:21 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of Catholic world news that you might have missed this week: Berlin pharmacist ordered to give up practice after refusing to sell ‘morning-after’ pill Berlin pharmacist Andreas…
null / Credit: Orhan Cam/Shutterstock CNA Staff, May 16, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Earlier this week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee unveiled its portion of the reconciliation bill, which included language to defund Planned Parenthood and abortion vendors for the next 10 years in the base text of the House bill. Leading pro-life…
Cardinal Pietro Parolin speaks to EWTN News in Oslo, Norway, on Jan. 17, 2025. / Credit: Fabio Gonella/EWTN News Vatican City, May 16, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, has not ruled out the possibility of Pope Leo XIV traveling to Nicaea, located in the present-day Turkish town of…
In 1887, during a pilgrimage to Rome, Thérèse Martin — now known around the world as St. Thérèse of Lisieux — visited the chapel of Mater Admirabilis, tucked inside a convent atop the Spanish Steps. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, May 16, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Millions of tourists flock to Rome’s Spanish…
Vice President JD Vance speaks at a film-screening event April 1, 2025, at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Erin Granzow/Courtesy of the Heritage Foundation Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 15, 2025 / 18:23 pm (CNA). U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, both of whom are Catholic, will attend…
Brian Burch’s nomination as U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See was blocked by Senate Democrats on May 13, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of CRC Advisors Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 15, 2025 / 18:43 pm (CNA). Senate Democrats this week blocked the confirmation of Brian Burch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the…
Meetings took place this week between the head of the transitional phase in Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, and U.S. President Donald Trump, in the presence of the Saudi Crown Prince, Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh. / Credit: Syrian Arab Republic Presidency Facebook page ACI MENA, May 15, 2025 / 17:33 pm (CNA). In a surprising…
