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Pope Leo XIV waves to those gathered at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome on Nov. 14, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 14, 2025 / 10:04 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Friday urged academics to “think the faith” in order to confront what he called an increasingly pervasive “cultural emptiness.”…

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle presides over the closing Mass of the National Eucharistic Congress in Lucas Oil Stadium on July 21, 2024, in Indianapolis. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno CNA Staff, Nov 14, 2025 / 10:34 am (CNA). In a move to renew a “long-lost tradition,” the U.S. bishops confirmed the next National Eucharistic Congress will…

Father Stephen Gutgsell. / Credit: Archdiocese of Omaha CNA Staff, Nov 14, 2025 / 11:04 am (CNA). An Iowa man will spend the rest of his life behind bars after he pleaded guilty in October to stabbing a Nebraska priest to death in 2023.  Kierre Williams last month pleaded guilty to the assault that claimed…

French press reports on the jihadist terror attacks the night of Nov. 13, 2015. / Credit: BalkansCat/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 14, 2025 / 11:34 am (CNA). Ten years ago on Nov. 13, armed jihadists stormed the Bataclan concert hall in Paris and elsewhere in the city, murdering over a hundred innocent people. Suicide bombers…

null / Credit: Srppateros via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 14, 2025 / 12:04 pm (CNA). While the Vatican issued new guidance that encourages limits on the use of certain Marian titles out of a concern that they may overstate the Blessed Mother’s role in redemption and mediation, the intra-Catholic debate on…

Bishop Stephano Lameck Musomba of the Diocese of Bagamoyo in Tanzania has denounced the killings connected to the country’s disputed Oct. 29, 2025, general elections. / Credit: Radio Maria Tanzania ACI Africa, Nov 14, 2025 / 12:24 pm (CNA). The bishop of the Diocese of Bagamoyo in Tanzania has denounced the extrajudicial killings connected to…

Father Ernesto Baltazar Hernández Vilchis. / Credit: Courtesy of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish/Screenshot Puebla, Mexico, Nov 14, 2025 / 13:04 pm (CNA). The Catholic Church has confirmed the discovery of the body of Father Ernesto Baltazar Hernández Vilchis, a priest of the Diocese of Cuautitlán in Mexico who had been missing for more than…

Cardinal Timothy Dolan is among the New York prelates who condemn the deportations of migrants who are seeking refugee status in the United States and criticize the government’s actions to strip some asylum seekers of temporary protected status in a Nov. 14, 2025, statement. / Credit: U.S. Department of Justice/Screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 14,…

U.S. Border czar Tom Homan defended the morality of the Trump administration’s enforcement policies. / Credit: “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo”/Screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 14, 2025 / 15:13 pm (CNA). Border czar Tom Homan strongly opposed the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) “special message” on immigration, saying the statement would encourage…