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People attend a vigil following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. / Credit: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2025 / 11:30 am (CNA). The leaders of the Minneapolis Catholic school where two children were shot and killed during a mass shooting incident on Wednesday say the…
null / Credit: HQuality/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). Assisted suicide has become legal in a growing number of states since it was first adopted in 1997 in Oregon. CNA has released three new interactive maps to show where each state in the U.S. stands on life issues — the protection…
Father Marcial Maciel. / Credit: DominikHoffmann, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 28, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). An HBO series on Marcial Maciel this month has once again placed the spotlight on the founder of the Legionaries of Christ and the complaints of sexual abuse against him. The congregation in…
The Minnesota state capitol in St. Paul. / Credit: Steve Heap/Shutterstock National Catholic Register, Aug 28, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). After a pair of out-of-state school shootings in 2022 and 2023 shocked the nation, Minnesota’s bishops implored state lawmakers to provide security funding for local nonpublic schools. Now, two years after their appeals went…
Law enforcement vehicles sit parked outside a reported residence of a suspect following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on Aug. 27, 2025 in Richfield, Minnesota. / Credit: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 27, 2025 / 20:15 pm (CNA). The man who killed two children and injured 17 other people in the…
St. Augustine and St. Monica stained glass at St. Augustine Cathedral Catholic Church Basilica in Tucson, Arizona. / Credit: Bill Perry/Shutterstock Rome Newsroom, Aug 27, 2025 / 13:40 pm (CNA). Since the fourth century, Christians have revered St. Monica, the mother of Church Father St. Augustine, as a woman of unwavering faith in God. In…
Skyline of Minneapolis. / Credit: Michael Hicks, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Aug 27, 2025 / 15:10 pm (CNA). After a shooter killed two children and injured 17 other people on Wednesday morning during Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, the community is reeling as leaders call for prayer. The shooter opened…
Pope Leo XIV prays during his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 13, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Aug 27, 2025 / 15:30 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday said he was offering prayers for the victims of the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, one…
null / Credit: Deemerwha studio/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 27, 2025 / 16:18 pm (CNA). Two children were killed and multiple victims injured in a shooting during an opening school year Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday. In times of tragedy, the Church turns to prayer. The Catholic Church believes that prayer can…
Archbishop Bernard Hebda of St. Paul-Minneapolis. / Credit: Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 27, 2025 / 16:57 pm (CNA). Archbishop Bernard Hebda, who leads the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, released a statement following the deadly shooting that took place on Wednesday morning at Annunciation Catholic School in southern Minneapolis. “My…
