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Pope Leo XIV blesses Elizabeth Busby and her baby on the way at the Mass for Digital Missionaries on July 29, 2025, at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. A family and marriage therapist, Busby hosts the “Discerning Marriage” podcast and developed the Next Step formation program for people who are discerning marriage. / Credit:…

Notre Dame Catholic Church in Kerrville, Texas. / Credit: Sophie Abuzeid Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 29, 2025 / 16:59 pm (CNA). A coalition of Protestant denominations filed a lawsuit on July 28 to challenge a policy from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration that makes it easier for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to arrest…

Left to right: Cathleen Davey, president, Holy Name Foundation; Jeffrey A. Brown, acting commissioner for the New Jersey Department of Health; Joan Noble, Douglas M. Noble Family Foundation; Michael Maron, president and CEO of Holy Name Medical Center; U.S. Rep. Nellie Pou; New Jersey state Sen. Paul A. Sarlo; and New Jersey state Sen. Joseph…

Pope Leo XIV greets a group of catechumens from France during an audience on July 29, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 29, 2025 / 14:59 pm (CNA). Speaking to a group of catechumens from France, Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday explained that baptism “gives us life” to renounce…

The Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan. / Credit: Oilstreet via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.5) CNA Staff, Jul 29, 2025 / 15:29 pm (CNA). Eighty years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, several Catholic cardinals and archbishops will visit Japan for a pilgrimage of peace this August. Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago; Cardinal Robert…

Canon law professor Edward Peters had taught at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit since 2005. / Credit: Photo courtesy of CanonLaw.info National Catholic Register, Jul 29, 2025 / 15:59 pm (CNA). Canon law professor Edward Peters is the third faculty member at Detroit’s seminary to announce that he has been fired by Archbishop Edward…