U.S. Catholic bishops urged Congress to end the federal government shutdown, but only if lawmakers ensure that tax credits are not used for abortions. / Credit: Traci L. Clever/Shutterstock Washington, D.C., Oct 17, 2025 / 12:10 pm (CNA). America’s Catholic bishops are urging Congress to end the nearly three-week federal government shutdown by extending taxpayer…
Pope Leo XIV greets Catholic pilgrims from Russia during an audience in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on Oct. 17, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media. ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 17, 2025 / 12:42 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Friday asked a group of Catholic pilgrims from Russia, in Rome on a Jubilee pilgrimage, to be…
null / Credit: NMKStudio@Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 17, 2025 / 13:19 pm (CNA). A federal judge in California will allow a class action lawsuit to proceed for potentially millions of parents and teachers regarding school district rules that hide child “gender transitions” from parents. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez ruled Oct. 15 that the lawsuit…
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Square on September 28, 2025. / Vatican Media screenshot CNA Newsroom, Oct 17, 2025 / 13:38 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has responded to a letter from a grieving father with the encouragement that “death never has the last word.” In the October issue of Piazza San…
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Britain’s King Charles III stands with Britain’s Princess Michael of Kent (left); Britain’s Prince Michael of Kent (second left); Britain’s Lord Frederick Windsor; Britain’s Prince William, Prince of Wales; Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales; Britain’s Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh; and Britain’s Princess Anne, Princess Royal, following a Requiem Mass for the late Katharine, Duchess of…
Pope Francis with Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery of Divine Worship and Discipline of Sacraments, at the consistory in St. Peter’s Basilica, Aug. 27, 2022 / Daniel Ibáñez / CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 17, 2025 / 11:15 am (CNA). Cardinal Arthur Roche, who leads the Vatican’s administrative body on the liturgy,…
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I have just dropped off my five-year-old to his Catechesis of the Good Shepherd class. The young children enter a beautifully decorated room, adorned with holy images and bathed in a subdued light; what proceeds is the quietest gathering of preschoolers you have ever heard. Two floors down, my oldest son is engaged with the…
