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Ruth Pakaluk with her husband and five of their children. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Pakaluk family National Catholic Register, Nov 19, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). To kids in the neighborhood east of Interstate 290 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Ruth Pakaluk was the mom who baked brownies and blondies for everyone after school and…

Archbishop Thibault Verny. / Credit: Florian Pépellin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Nov 19, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). The challenge of addressing abuse within consecrated life — in all its dimensions: sexual, power, conscience, and also economic — was the focus of an international meeting organized by the Pontifical Commission for…

Pierre Louvrier (center) speaks during the “Schuman Plan 2.0 — Europe’s Role in a Fragmented World” debate at the European Parliament, Nov. 11, 2025. / Credit: Maria Grazia Ricciardi EWTN News, Nov 19, 2025 / 09:45 am (CNA). A Vatican-based foundation has proposed a new peace initiative inspired by Venerable Robert Schuman, one of the…

Bishop Elias Ayuban Jr. of Cubao hands over a letter of support to Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Romeo Brawner Jr. at Camp Aguinaldo, Manila on Nov. 14, 2025. / Credit: Clergy For Good Governance Manila, Philippines, Nov 19, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). Catholic bishops urged the Philippine military to…

Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Nov 19, 2025 / 11:15 am (CNA). Following the reaction to the new Vatican document Mater Populi Fidelis (“Mother of the Faithful People”), Father Maurizio Gronchi, a Christology expert and consultant to the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, warned that…

null / Credit: Joe Belanger/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 19, 2025 / 12:23 pm (CNA). The Maine State Supreme Court is considering whether to give a mother the right to take her daughter to church amid a dispute between the mother and her daughter’s father.  Liberty Counsel, an Orlando, Florida-based legal group, said in a press…