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The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Syracuse, New York, where a federal court accepted the diocese’s $176 million settlement plan. / Credit: debra millet/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA). A federal bankruptcy court has accepted the Diocese of Syracuse, New York’s massive $176 million abuse settlement plan, Bishop Douglas Lucia…

Pope Leo XIV addresses a delegation of political representatives and civic leaders from the Diocese of Créteil, France, on Aug. 28, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 28, 2025 / 12:30 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Thursday encouraged Catholic politicians to live coherently as Christians and follow the…

Devastating flooding after in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. / Credit: News Muse via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 28, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). On the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, two U.S. bishops called on Catholics to remember the victims of the tragedy and to “renew our commitment…