Caritas calls ‘man-made famine and assault on Gaza City’ a ‘horror’ — By: Catholic News Agency

Palestinians gather outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug. 25, 2025, following Israeli strikes. / Credit: AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2025 / 15:57 pm (CNA). Caritas Internationalis issued a statement on “the man-made famine and assault on Gaza City” following the Israel Defense Forces’…

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Trump’s HHS gives states 60 days to remove ‘gender ideology’ in school material — By: Catholic News Agency

null / Credit: JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2025 / 16:57 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned states and American territories that they must remove references to “gender ideology” from K–12 education materials or they will lose federal funding. HHS sent letters dated Aug. 26 to 40…

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Vocation directors conference kicks off to help those ‘forming healthy and holy priests’ — By: Catholic News Agency

Monsignor Stephen Rossetti is the keynote speaker at the 2025 National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors conference. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Monsignor Stephen Rossetti Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2025 / 17:27 pm (CNA). This week hundreds of vocation directors, staff, and collaborators are gathering to draw closer to Christ, grow in brotherhood, and…

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Trump administration appeals to some pro-life reproductive health care despite IVF push — By: Catholic News Agency

null / Credit: Aykut Erdogdu/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). President Donald Trump’s administration has started to incorporate some elements of pro-life reproductive health care into its policy goals, which pro-life advocates argue are alternatives to in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures meant to address fertility problems. So far the inclusion…

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Pope Leo XIV transfers Detroit auxiliary bishop to San Antonio Archdiocese — By: Catholic News Agency

Bishop José Arturo Cepeda. / Credit: Courtesy of the Archdiocese of Detroit Vatican City, Aug 26, 2025 / 09:45 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday appointed Detroit Auxiliary Bishop José Arturo Cepeda as auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of San Antonio. The transfer marks the Mexican-born bishop’s return to San Antonio, the south-central Texas…

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Minnesota diocese to open Sister Annella Zervas’ sainthood cause in October — By: Catholic News Agency

Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston, Minnesota, announced in a video message Aug. 20, 2025, that he will soon open the sainthood cause of Sister Annella Zervas, OSB, making it the first sainthood cause ever opened in the northerly Minnesota diocese. / Credit: Diocese of Crookston; Joanne Zervas National Catholic Register, Aug 26, 2025 / 13:23…

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New initiative seeks to help families ‘reclaim’ the Sabbath — By: Catholic News Agency

null / Credit: maxim ibragimov/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 26, 2025 / 13:53 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis announced a new initiative that will “meet families where they are” as it helps them reclaim the Sabbath as a day dedicated to prayer and rest.  The initiative, “Reclaiming Sundays: Recover Sunday as…

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What a dispute over a Native American worship site means for U.S. religious liberty — By: Catholic News Agency

The Catholic bishops are backing a suit by a coalition of Apache Stronghold, a coalition of Native Americans and their supporters, in their lawsuit against the federal government. The lawsuit argues that their freedom of religion was violated when the federal government announced its intention to sell formerly protected land in Arizona to a mining…

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