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null / Credit: Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 10, 2025 / 14:37 pm (CNA). Officials in Washington state have agreed to back off a controversial effort to force priests there to violate the seal of confession as part of a mandatory abuse reporting law. A motion filed in federal district court on Oct. 10…

Pope Leo XIV greets men and women religious during an audience for the Jubilee of Consecrated Life in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Oct. 10, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 10, 2025 / 09:33 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV met with participants in the Jubilee of Consecrated Life in the Vatican…

City of Tripoli, Libya. / Credit: Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 10, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week that you might have missed: Ancient traces of St. Mark reveal Christianity’s deep roots in Libya In the eastern Libyan city of Derna, archaeological remains linked…

“The Christian is supposed to answer the question ‘Who is my neighbor?’, and the answer is: ‘The one who needs me,’” said Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski during an Oct. 9, 2025, press conference in Miami. / Credit: Emily Chaffins/CNA Miami, Florida, Oct 10, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). “There’s somebody here who wants to talk…