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null / Credit: Andy via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) CNA Staff, Aug 15, 2025 / 13:11 pm (CNA). A Pennsylvania priest has been placed on administrative leave after he confessed to local prosecutors last month to falsifying the results of a high-level fundraising raffle at his parish. Father Ross Miceli allegedly “admitted to publicly falsifying…
The encounter in Indianapolis will feature opening remarks by Pope Leo XIV, youth representatives, and a live Q&A. / Credit: EWTN News Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 15, 2025 / 06:35 am (CNA). EWTN Global Catholic Network announced it will serve as the exclusive media partner providing news coverage, broadcast, and digital streaming of Pope Leo…
Pope Leo XIV celebrates the Mass of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Church of St. Thomas of Villanova in Castel Gandolfo, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Aug 15, 2025 / 10:43 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Thursday presided over the Mass of the Assumption of…
Clergy accompany migrants at a courthouse in San Diego. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Scott Santarosa Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 15, 2025 / 11:13 am (CNA). A new initiative launched by the Catholic Diocese of San Diego and its interfaith partners is offering accompaniment and a spiritual presence for migrants and asylum seekers at…
Palestine and Israel border. / Credit: AntonMislawsky/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 15, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week that you might have missed: Israel denies entry to Italian priest over criticism of war in Gaza An Italian Catholic priest who has accused Israel of…
Assumption of the Virgin Mary, fresco painting in San Petronio Basilica in Bologna, Italy. / Credit: Zvonimir Atletic/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 15, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). Today, Aug. 15, is the feast of the Assumption, a solemnity commemorating the end of the Virgin Mary’s earthly life and the assumption of her body and…
A Catholic Church in Laos. / Credit: Amittaya/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 14, 2025 / 14:36 pm (CNA). Despite the fact that the constitution and religious freedom laws in Laos officially guarantee the right to worship, Christians in rural areas of this Southeast Asian country are being evicted from their homes and being forced to…
A parish bookkeeper in Lincroft, New Jersey is alleged to have stolen more than $1.5 million in a lawsuit filed by the Church of Saint Leo the Great. / Credit: Neal Bryant/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 14, 2025 / 10:53 am (CNA). A New Jersey church is alleging in a lawsuit that its bookkeeper stole more…
The Cathedral of St. Paul in Birmingham, Alabama. / Credit: R. Wellen Photography/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 14, 2025 / 12:42 pm (CNA). A high-ranking priest in the Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama is on leave amid allegations that years ago, he began a relationship with a young woman who was a minor at the time….
Greek Catholic Bishop Maksym Ryabukha of the Exarchate of Donetsk, Ukraine. / Credit: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 14, 2025 / 15:57 pm (CNA). Maksym Ryabukha, the Greek Catholic bishop of the Exarchate of Donetsk in Ukraine, describes himself as a “bishop on wheels” because he frequently travels to visit parishes and…
