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Cuba’s Capitol in Havana. / Credit: Nigel Pacquette, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 17, 2025 / 17:26 pm (CNA). On the occasion of the Jubilee Year of Hope, the bishops of Cuba have published a message denouncing the terrible conditions that prevail on the island, which they said “invade the…
Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot Washington D.C., Jun 17, 2025 / 17:56 pm (CNA). During the first hearing of President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, Bishop Robert Barron echoed Pope Benedict XVI’s warning against the “dictatorship of relativism” encroaching on American society. Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester,…
The Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission meets in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 16, 2025. / Credit: Tessa Gervasini/CNA Washington D.C., Jun 17, 2025 / 15:22 pm (CNA). The White House Religious Liberty Commission held its first hearing in Washington, D.C., on Monday where members received a number of recommendations on how to protect religious…
Pope Leo XIV addresses the Italian Bishops’ Conference on June 17, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jun 17, 2025 / 15:56 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV received on June 17 at the Vatican the bishops of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI, by its Italian acronym), with whom he shared four…
A Georgia woman gave birth to a 1-pound, 16-ounce baby boy on June 13, 2025, after four months on life support. / Credit: liseykina/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 17, 2025 / 16:26 pm (CNA). A Georgia woman who was declared brain dead in February has given birth after four months on life support. Adriana Smith,…
Actor Al Pacino and Italian film producer Andrea Iervolino give Pope Leo XIV a miniature model of a Maserati car during a private audience at the Vatican on June 17, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Andrea Iervolino Vatican City, Jun 17, 2025 / 13:38 pm (CNA). In an unexpected visit, Hollywood actor Al Pacino…
Credit: Quisquilia/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 17, 2025 / 11:16 am (CNA). A group of Orthodox churches has joined the Catholic bishops of Washington state in suing the government over its requirement that clergy either violate the seal of confession or face jail time. The Orthodox Church in America, the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North…
Renowned exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth. / Credit: Angela Musolesi (CC BY-SA 4.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 17, 2025 / 11:54 am (CNA). Father Marcello Lanza of the International Association of Exorcists (IAE) recently honored Father Gabriele Amorth on the 100th anniversary of Amorth’s birth as “the most famous exorcist of the 20th century.” “Don Amorth…
The New Jersey State House. / Credit: Felix Lipov/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 17, 2025 / 10:37 am (CNA). The New Jersey government will be allowed to assemble a grand jury to investigate allegations of clergy sexual abuse there, the state Supreme Court said Monday. In a unanimous ruling, the New Jersey Supreme Court said a…
Bernardo García is executive director of the Casablanca Declaration. / Credit: “EWTN Noticias”/Screenshot Lima Newsroom, Jun 17, 2025 / 09:42 am (CNA). Bernardo García, executive director of the Casablanca Declaration, a coalition that calls for the universal abolition of surrogacy, said that in reality the practice amounts to “the exploitation of poor women and the…
