Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for his weekly general audience on Sept. 17, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Sep 18, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV downplayed concerns of the ongoing financial crisis at the Vatican in a recent interview, arguing that…
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Above: Union dead after the Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg, PA, 1863. Photo by Alexander Gardner (Library of Congress). The past week or two has been filled with horrible news in America. On August 22, 2025, in Charlotte, North Carolina, twenty-three year old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was stabbed to death on the public transit; it…
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I remember my Catholic-school class praying for President John Kennedy the day he was shot in 1963. The next year, there were riots in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, just 35-minutes (17 miles) from my home bordering that borough. More riots in Harlem followed. Major uprisings trailed in cities like Watts (Los Angeles) in 1965. Then, in the…
America has long been known as an “experiment” in self-government. Writing to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay in 1790, George Washington reflected on the meaning of the new Constitution: “The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment, for promoting human happiness, by reasonable compact, in civil Society” (emphasis added). Note he said…
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The J. Edgar Hoover FBI headquarters building in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 17, 2025 / 19:34 pm (CNA). FBI Director Kash Patel said in a U.S. Senate hearing that there have been “terminations” and “resignations” of employees related to a 2023 anti-Catholic memo…
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