Arequipa Archbishop Javier Del Río Alba is pictured here with the diocese’s newly ordained priests on Sept. 29, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Archdiocese of Arequipa ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 3, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). The archbishop of Arequipa, Javier Del Río Alba, recently ordained five new priests in southern Peru, encouraging them…
Photographer holding camera against newlywed couple. / Credit: Vectorfusionart/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 3, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). A federal court awarded nominal damages to a Christian photographer after the city government of Louisville, Kentucky, sought to enforce an anti-discrimination ordinance that could have forced her to provide photography services for same-sex civil weddings….
Swiss Guards model the new military dress uniform in a courtyard of the Swiss Guards’ Vatican barracks during an Oct. 2, 2025, presentation. The uniform, an updated version of a historic uniform used from the late 1800s to 1976, will be used at important events. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 3, 2025 /…
null / Credit: Mike Blackburn via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) CNA Staff, Oct 3, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news. Abortion declines even in states where it is still legal The number of abortions in clinics in pro-abortion states saw a decline in the first half…
The 17th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo sets before us Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, a prison letter written probably from Rome, probably not far from where I sit in Rome writing this, in which he exhorts: Brethren, I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of…
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I was in Ohio staying at friend’s place, on my way to the CIC conference when I heard the news that Pope Leo had made several comments which, prima facie, seemed to be some Cardinal Bernardin-style “seamless garment” stupidity. But when I read his comments, I did not think he was that stupid. Not for…
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Timothy Schmalz works on the sculpture of Jesus covering Charlie Kirk’s fatal wound. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Ave Maria University CNA Staff, Oct 3, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The day after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, renowned Catholic sculptor Timothy Schmalz began working on a sculpture no one had commissioned: Jesus comforting the slain…
