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Crosses stand in a row at the Wounded Knee Memorial in South Dakota. / Credit: Von Roenn/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 22, 2025 / 15:24 pm (CNA). Rapid City, South Dakota, Bishop Scott E. Bullock and South Dakota Jesuit leaders criticized U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for honoring U.S. soldiers who carried out an 1890…
null / Credit: Shutterstock AI/Shutterstock Rome, Italy, Oct 22, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). As world leaders raise concerns about widespread loneliness and declining social skills, tech companies are offering increasingly realistic and immersive forms of AI-based life coaching, friendship, and romance through AI companions. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg suggests that AI companions could supplement…
Bishop Nicholas Hudson was named the next bishop of Plymouth, England, by Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 21, 2025. / Credit: @mikedavies Plymouth, England, Oct 22, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has named Bishop Nicholas Hudson, an auxiliary bishop of Westminster, as the next bishop of Plymouth, England. The news comes after…
The “halo effect” of churches’ programs and facilities outweighs tax revenue roughly tenfold, says a new report on the risk to Canadian society if faith groups lose their charitable status, as recommended in a finance committee report. / Credit: Photo courtesy of The B.C. Catholic Vancouver, Canada, Oct 22, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). A…
St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. / Credit: Babouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Oct 22, 2025 / 09:07 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV will name St. John Henry Newman a patron saint of Catholic education in a document to be published on Oct. 28 for the…
null / Credit: RasyidArt/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 22, 2025 / 10:07 am (CNA). Here’s a roundup of the latest Catholic education news in the United States: Catholic college graduates leading in purpose, belonging, financial stability, report says Graduates of Catholic colleges and universities are outperforming other students in purpose and belonging and are reporting…
Cardinal Pietro Parolin celebrates a Mass for peace in Ukraine on Nov. 17, 2022, in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 22, 2025 / 10:54 am (CNA). Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and an organization of Vatican-accredited journalists have spoken out in support of…
Bolivian president-elect Rodrigo Paz Pereira. / Credit: Jallallabolivia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 21, 2025 / 18:26 pm (CNA). Rodrigo Paz Pereira of the Christian Democratic Party is the president-elect of Bolivia after defeating former Bolivian President Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga Ramírez of the Free Alliance coalition in a close runoff…
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, meets with reporters in Baltimore on Nov. 15, 2022. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 21, 2025 / 13:37 pm (CNA). The U.S. Army is reexamining canceled religious contracts after Archbishop for the Military Services, USA, Timothy Broglio lamented that cuts…
Cardinal Pietro Parolin speaks at the release of Aid to the Church in Need’s “Religious Freedom in the World Report 2025” at the Vatican on Oct. 21, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 21, 2025 / 14:07 pm (CNA). Authoritarian regimes are among the main drivers of religious discrimination and persecution in 52…
