Category: Church News

U.S. Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia CNA Staff, Sep 8, 2025 / 18:06 pm (CNA). A new report from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has found that the Biden administration engaged in a “consistent and systematic pattern of discrimination” against Christians, including…

null / Credit: Freedom Studio/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 8, 2025 / 18:26 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump announced the U.S. Department of Education will issue new federal guidelines to protect prayer at public schools. In a Sept. 8 speech to the Religious Liberty Commission, Trump said the new guidelines will “protect the right to…

The Vatican Gardens at Castel Gandolfo. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA CNA Staff, Sep 7, 2025 / 14:56 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV announced a historic partnership between the Vatican and two famous Chicago restaurateurs, Art Smith and Phil Stefani, to open a restaurant at Borgo Laudato Si’, a 135-acre “zero environmental impact” complex in Castel…

Sister Gisela Rfanyu Shey speaks at the second African Women Theologian Conferece on Sept. 3, 2025, saying that to realize synodality in Africa, the Church should prioritize counseling amid the myriad of scars, including those of colonialism, war, ethnic conflict, poverty, disease, and systemic injustices. / Credit: ACI Africa ACI Africa, Sep 8, 2025 /…

Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Rochester, New York. / Credit: DanielPenfield via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) CNA Staff, Sep 8, 2025 / 12:37 pm (CNA). One of the nation’s largest sexual abuse settlements unfolded in a federal bankruptcy court in Rochester, New York, on Friday, bringing about resolution for the nearly 500 survivors of child…

Britain’s King Charles III (right); Oratorian Father Ignatius Harrison (left); Daniel Joyce (back left), Newman archivist and librarian, Birmingham Oratory; and Father Anton Guziel (back right) walk during a tour of The Oratory of St. Philip Neri on Sept. 3, 2025. / Credit: CHRIS JACKSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images National Catholic Register, Sep 8, 2025 /…

Pope Leo XIV greets the families of the Vatican / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 8, 2025 / 14:13 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 6 participated in the Vatican’s Festival of Families, where he highlighted the importance of the witness of families in today’s world. The event took place in the plaza…

Pope Leo canonizes Sts. Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Sep 7, 2025 / 06:37 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV proclaimed Italians Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis as saints of the Church on Sunday, decreeing their…

Tom Vander Woude with two of his grandchildren, Michael and Bobby Vander Woude (from left to right). The Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, is investigating Tom Vander Woude’s cause for sainthood almost two decades after he died saving his son. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Tom Vander Woude Guild CNA Staff, Sep 8, 2025 /…

People attend a vigil at Lynnhurst Park to mourn the dead and pray for the wounded after a gunman opened fire on students at Annunciation Catholic School on Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. / Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images Vatican City, Sep 8, 2025 / 09:15 am (CNA). Vatican experts said on Monday that the two…