Category: News

James Dobson during an event marking the National Day of Prayer in the East Room of the White House on May 1, 2008, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images CNA Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 15:19 pm (CNA). James Dobson, the evangelical Christian psychologist, author, and founder of Focus on the Family, an…

View of the Greek island of Syros. / Credit: Hans Peter Schaefer/Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) CNA Newsroom, Aug 21, 2025 / 10:51 am (CNA). Prosecutors on the Greek island of Syros have filed felony charges against two Catholic clerics and six civilians in connection with the alleged embezzlement and money laundering of more than 3…

The Ten Commandments outside the Texas Capitol. / Credit: BLundin via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) CNA Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 12:12 pm (CNA). A federal judge has partially blocked the state of Texas from enforcing its law ordering the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools.  In a colorful ruling replete with off-the-cuff…

Pope Leo XIV prays during his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 13, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 12:42 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has called for a day of fasting and prayer for peace on Friday, Aug. 22, coinciding…

Flowers stand before Knock Shrine in Knock, Ireland, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Knock, Ireland, Aug 21, 2025 / 13:20 pm (CNA). At Ireland’s Knock Shrine, the confessionals are “the engine room,” its rector says, powering this rural Marian apparition site as a place of hope and healing during the jubilee year….

Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, speaks with “EWTN News Nightly” on March 4, 2025. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 14:15 pm (CNA). Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota and founder of the Catholic ministry Word on Fire recently warned about the proliferation of fake videos created…