Category: Church News

Former U.S. Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli. / Credit: DHSgov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 29, 2025 / 14:59 pm (CNA). Catholics who do not gather for anti-enforcement rallies organized by high-ranking Catholic prelates are a “silent majority,” according to conservative Catholic immigration experts.  As the Trump administration’s…

null / Credit: vmargineanu/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 29, 2025 / 15:29 pm (CNA). A man accused of fatally stabbing a Nebraska Catholic priest has pleaded guilty to the murder of Father Stephen Gutgsell and other charges.  Gutgsell, 65, died after deputies found him stabbed in December 2023. Gutgsell had been serving as the parish…

Archbishop Georg Gänswein speaks at a conference on the Šiluva Declaration in Šiluva, Lithuania, on Sept. 4, 2024. / Credit: Juozas Kamenskas Šiluva, Lithuania, Oct 29, 2025 / 15:59 pm (CNA). Twenty years after then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger warned of a “dictatorship of relativism” on the eve of his election as Pope Benedict XVI, his former…

Mar Awa III presents a Chicago Cubs jersey to Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 27, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 29, 2025 / 16:29 pm (CNA). His Holiness Mar Awa III, Catholicos-patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, traveled to Rome this week to participate in a ceremony commemorating the…

Speaker Edward Sri gives a talk on Jan. 4, 2025, at SEEK25 in Salt Lake City. / Credit: Kate Quiñones/CNA CNA Staff, Oct 29, 2025 / 16:59 pm (CNA). The Fellowship of Catholic University Students’ (FOCUS) SEEK conference is set to take place in three cities for the first time in 2026.  The conference will…

Pope Leo XIV arrives in St. Peter’s Square for his weekly general audience on Oct. 29, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News Vatican City, Oct 29, 2025 / 08:55 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday strongly condemned antisemitism during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square marking the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the…

As Father Emmanuel Nanabanyin Conduah (right) looks on, PennWest University Professor Miguel Olivas-Luján (left) delivers his paper “Retiring for Eternity: Planning Based on Social Science and Catholic Social Thought” during the 2025 annual conference of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. / Credit: Ken Oliver-Méndez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct…

About 42 million Americans who rely on food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will lose those benefits Nov. 1. 2025, without enactment of a spending bill. / Credit: Jeff Bukowski/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 29, 2025 / 12:27 pm (CNA). Catholic charitable groups that provide food to needy families are voicing concern…

Texas state capitol. / Credit: Inspired By Maps/Shutterstock Houston, Texas, Oct 29, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Texas voters will head to the polls next week to consider Proposition 15, the Parental Rights Amendment, a constitutional amendment aimed at enshrining parents’ rights in the state constitution. The measure, if approved, would add language to the…

The archbishop of Homs for the Syriac Catholics, Jacques Mourad, speaks with ACI MENA, CNA’s Arabic-language news partner, about the challenges to the Church in Syria. / Credit: ACI MENA ACI MENA, Oct 29, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). The archbishop of Homs for the Syriac Catholics, Jacques Mourad, said Islamic-Christian dialogue in Syria is…