Judge strikes down Minnesota law banning religious schools from college credit program — By: Catholic News Agency

The campus of Crown College in Minnesota. / Credit: Clappert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 25, 2025 / 14:06 pm (CNA). A federal judge has ruled that Christian colleges that require students to sign a statement of faith cannot be excluded from a Minnesota program that lets high school students…

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U.S. bishops, Catholic Health Association endorse palliative care legislation — By: Catholic News Agency

null / Credit: Lighthunter/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 25, 2025 / 14:36 pm (CNA). The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Catholic Health Association have voiced their “strong support” for the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act, a bipartisan bill reintroduced in the Senate last month by Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin,…

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Pope Leo XIV receives exiled president of Nicaraguan bishops’ conference — By: Catholic News Agency

Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez is president of Nicaragua’s bishops’ conference. / Credit: Alonso3215 (CC0 1.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 25, 2025 / 15:09 pm (CNA). Over the weekend, Pope Leo XIV received the exiled president of the Nicaraguan bishops’ conference, Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez, who was expelled from the Central American country by…

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