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The Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission meets in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 16, 2025 / Credit: Tessa Gervasini/CNA CNA Staff, Dec 11, 2025 / 11:05 am (CNA). The White House’s Religious Liberty Commission held its fourth hearing on Dec. 10, focusing on reports of the suppression of the right to religious freedom in the…

Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful in Piazza della Libertà in August, 2025. / Credit: Marco Iacobucci Epp/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 11, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA). More than two-thirds of American Catholic voters have a favorable opinion of Pope Leo XIV during the first year of his pontificate, and only a tiny percentage…

With Speaker of the House Mike Johnson by his side, President Donald Trump speaks to the press following a House Republican meeting at the U.S. Capitol on May 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 11, 2025 / 12:30 pm (CNA). A majority of Catholic voters in the…

Death penalty. / California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Wikipedia CC 2.0. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 11, 2025 / 13:00 pm (CNA). A majority of Catholic voters in the United States support the death penalty for convicted murderers in spite of the Catechism of the Catholic Church calling capital punishment “inadmissible,” according to a poll…

Tom Vander Woude with baby Joseph “Josie” Vander Woude. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Tom Vander Woude Guild CNA Staff, Dec 11, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). When Virginia father Tom Vander Woude’s 19-year-old son, a boy with Down syndrome, fell into a toxic sewage tank, Tom jumped into the tank with him, pushing…