‘It felt like history’: Teens, organizers on cloud nine after live dialogue with Pope Leo — By: Catholic News Agency

Ezequiel Ponce, a high school senior from Downey, California (left), and Elise Wing, a senior from Waterloo, Iowa (right), speak at a press conference following their digital dialogue with Pope Leo XIV on Nov. 21, 2025. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/National Catholic Register Indianapolis, Indiana, Nov 21, 2025 / 18:10 pm (CNA). At a press conference…

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Notre Dame returns ‘Catholic Mission’ to its core values after ‘confusion’  — By: Catholic News Agency

Notre Dame President Robert A. Dowd, CSC, said he is reinstating “Catholic Mission” among staff values on Nov. 21, 2025. / Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 21, 2025 / 18:30 pm (CNA). The University of Notre Dame has reinstated “Catholic Mission” among its staff values after it opted to drop…

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How a New Jersey pro-life pregnancy center is fighting the government’s ‘lawfare’ — By: Catholic News Agency

First Choice Women’s Resource Centers is a Christian nonprofit in New Jersey. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Alliance Defending Freedom CNA Staff, Nov 21, 2025 / 16:20 pm (CNA). When the subpoena hit her desk, Aimee Huber had to make a choice: Give up years of private information about her New Jersey-based pregnancy center network…

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Los Angeles Archbishop Gómez: Trump’s deportation policy ‘ruining people’s lives’ — By: Catholic News Agency

Archbishop José Gomez delivers the homily at a special Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels amid burning fires in Los Angeles on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. / Credit: The Archdiocese of Los Angeles/YouTube Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 21, 2025 / 16:50 pm (CNA). Archbishop José H. Gómez of the Archdiocese of…

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Armed attackers kidnap children from Catholic elementary school in Nigeria — By: Catholic News Agency

Over 200 Christians were murdered by Islamist militants in Nigeria on June, 13, 2025. / Credit: Red Confidential/Shutterstock ACI Africa, Nov 21, 2025 / 17:20 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Kontagora in Nigeria has described as “painful and disturbing” the Friday, Nov. 21, kidnapping of children and staff at St. Mary’s Catholic Nursery, Primary, and…

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Joy in Dublin as papal designation gives city first Catholic cathedral since Reformation — By: Catholic News Agency

Archbishop Dermot Farrell of the Dublin Archdiocese holds up the decree on Nov. 14, 2025, that Pope Leo XIV sent him granting his request that St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Dublin be designated as the cathedral Church of the archdiocese. / Credit: John McElroy/Dublin Archdiocese Dublin, Ireland, Nov 21, 2025 / 12:09…

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Sen. Klobuchar meets Pope Leo XIV to advocate for abducted Ukrainian children — By: Catholic News Agency

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, meets Pope Leo XIV, along with a delegation of Ukrainian mothers, wives, and teenagers, at the Vatican on Nov. 21, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 21, 2025 / 12:40 pm (CNA). U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, joined a delegation of Ukrainian mothers, wives, and teenagers forcibly taken…

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