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Silvia Toma before participating in the vigil with Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 15, 2025. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News Vatican City, Sep 16, 2025 / 15:50 pm (CNA). Silvia Toma has a scar on her soul: Four years ago she buried her 34-year-old only son, who had two little daughters. “It was sudden leukemia. He…

Flowers are seen on Sept. 3, 2025, outside the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where a shooter killed two children and injured 21 other people on Aug. 27, 2025. / Credit: Alex Wroblewski/Getty CNA Staff, Sep 16, 2025 / 16:14 pm (CNA). Less than three weeks after the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minnesota that…

Reem Alsalem is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls. / Credit: ADF International Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 16, 2025 / 16:44 pm (CNA). The United Nations (U.N.) Expert on Violence Against Women and Girls Reem Alsalem was joined by detransitioner and activist Chloe Cole last week in urging governments to…

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. / Credit: President.gov.ua/Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) CNA Staff, Sep 16, 2025 / 12:24 pm (CNA). Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople met with President Donald Trump this week during a visit to the United States, with the leaders discussing world affairs including ongoing strife in the Middle East and Ukraine. A…