Crisis editor Eric Sammons has made written and spoken pleas for laity calm in the aftermath of Pope Leo XIV’s odd ice-block blessing and refusal to condemn Cardinal Blase Cupich’s decision to award a pro-abortion politician with a lifetime achievement honor. Even on gasket-blowing days like yesterday, when the Chicago-native pontiff promoted his fellow Chicagoan…
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Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa (L) and a members of a Christian visit the Saint Porphyrius Church in Gaza City on July 18, 2025. / Credit: OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 15, 2025 / 17:51 pm (CNA). Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa has given an update on the status of Christians in…
Eduardo Peñalver will begin his role as the 49th president of Georgetown on July 1, 2026. / Credit: Georgetown University Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 15, 2025 / 18:22 pm (CNA). The oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher learning in the United States, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., has named Eduardo Peñalver, current president of…
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Archbishop Sanz Montes, with the Lumen Dei missionaries sent to the Diocese of Tlapa in Mexico. / Credit: Archdiocese of Oviedo ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 15, 2025 / 12:34 pm (CNA). The archbishop of Oviedo in Spain, Jesús Sanz, was momentarily held at gunpoint but was allowed to proceed unharmed by hooded men with machine…
null / Credit: Melnikov Dmitriy/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 15, 2025 / 12:45 pm (CNA). Pensacola-Tallahassee Bishop William Wack this week called for immigration reform while urging the faithful to welcome immigrants amid ongoing deportations and detainments in Florida and throughout the country. The bishop told the faithful in his diocese in an Oct. 14 letter…
The 6th Annual Eucharistic Procession took place in New York City on Oct. 14, 2025, a day after a Nor’easter soaked the tri-state area. Organizers praised God for holding back the rain during the event and for allowing the procession to take place peacefully in Time Square during the 5 p.m. rush hour without incident….
Pope Leo with ‘Proton’ / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 15, 2025 / 14:35 pm (CNA). Before the general audience on Oct. 15, Pope Leo XIV was gifted with a 12-year-old purebred Arabian horse named Proton. The white horse is a gift from Michalski Stables in Kołobrzeg-Budzistowo, and will reside in Castel Gandolfo,…
