null / Nicole Glass Photography/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 26, 2023 / 12:34 pm (CNA). The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) this week acknowledged the 25th anniversary of the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA), what the bishops called a “landmark” piece of legislation meant to protect the “essential and inviolable” principle of…

A police officer blocks access to the road to Sparetime Recreation on Oct. 26, 2023, in Lewiston, Maine. Police are still searching for the suspect in the mass shooting, Robert Card. / Credit: Scott Eisen/Getty Images CNA Staff, Oct 26, 2023 / 09:12 am (CNA). Multiple victims were reported dead after at least two mass…

null / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 26, 2023 / 09:45 am (CNA). Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is suing the Biden administration in response to a federal decision to redirect millions of dollars of federal family planning funding toward Planned Parenthood in the state. Skrmetti said in a Wednesday statement that the state was…

Pope Francis leads the Synod delegates in prayer, Oct. 25, 2024. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 26, 2023 / 06:55 am (CNA). Pope Francis denounced clericalism and called it a “scandal” to see young priests buying lace vestments at tailor shops in a strongly-worded speech to the Synod on Synodality on Wednesday. Speaking to…