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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…
Pilgrims reach out to Pope Leo XIV at the general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican City, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Aug 27, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). We find true hope when we give of ourselves freely and with love — encountering suffering, not running away…
Father Alan Sanchez with parishioners at St. Joseph Church in La Pryor, Texas. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Alan Sanchez Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 27, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). A Mexican-born Catholic priest who has served in the Diocese of Laredo, Texas, for nine years must leave the United States because his application…
null / Credit: CNA CNA Staff, Aug 27, 2025 / 10:41 am (CNA). At least two victims are reportedly dead, with multiple injuries reported, after a mass shooting incident at a Minneapolis Catholic church and school. A massive police presence descended on Annunciation Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, with emergency responders having initiated a…
Parents await news of their children after a reported mass shooting at Annunciation Church on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. / Credit: Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP CNA Staff, Aug 27, 2025 / 11:13 am (CNA). Authorities and media reports on Wednesday morning said a mass shooting had taken place at a Catholic parish…
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Washington D.C., Aug 27, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). As lawmakers prepare to return next week from their August recess, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) wants them to get to work on…
Telley Sadia, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)’s country representative for Sudan. / Credit: CAFOD ACI Africa, Aug 26, 2025 / 14:23 pm (CNA). The current cholera devastation in Sudan, especially in the country’s Darfur region, is taking a toll on the population already battered by the world’s worst humanitarian crisis following two years…
null / Credit: Ivon19/Wikipedia (public domain) (CC-BY-SA-4.0) CNA Staff, Aug 26, 2025 / 14:57 pm (CNA). In nine states and in the nation’s capital, unborn life is not protected at any stage of life. Another 18 states do not protect unborn life until some point in the second trimester of pregnancy. But some states are…
Pope Leo XIV, whose recent discourses will be published in a book on Aug. 27, waves during his Wednesday audience Aug. 20, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 26, 2025 / 15:27 pm (CNA). On Aug. 27 the Vatican will publish a compilation of Pope Leo’s discourses from the first months of…
