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null / Credit: New Africa/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 12:54 pm (CNA). Massachusetts will no longer require prospective foster parents to affirm gender ideology in order to qualify for fostering children, with the move coming after a federal lawsuit from a religious liberty group. Alliance Defending Freedom said Dec. 17 that ... read more

By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 12:54 pm Massachusetts will no longer require prospective foster parents to affirm gender ideology in order to qualify for fostering children, with the move coming after a federal lawsuit from a religious liberty group.  Alliance Defending Freedom said Dec. 17 ... read more

By Matt McDonald National Catholic Register, Dec 19, 2025 / 12:24 pm A retired New York bishop has filed for personal bankruptcy protection in federal court after a state jury verdict found him, along with other officials, personally liable for the collapse of a Catholic hospital pension fund that ... read more

Bishop Edward Scarfenberger. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Albany National Catholic Register, Dec 19, 2025 / 12:24 pm (CNA). A retired New York bishop has filed for personal bankruptcy protection in federal court after a state jury verdict found him, along with other officials, personally liable for the collapse of ... read more

Donald DeMarco: I had a terrible dream last night. Maybe it was brought about by that extra slice of “everything on it” pizza I consumed before I retired. It was having its revenge. At any rate, the dream was not only terrifying, but it lasted a long time. I hastened to write it ... read more

John Carpay: If passed into law, the Combatting Hate Act (Bill C-9) will make Canada more like the increasingly authoritarian United Kingdom. U.K. police now arrest more than 30 people every day for offensive tweets, question citizens for political commentary, and have even arrested parents in front of their children, over private WhatsApp ... read more

By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 11:52 am The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a coalition of Catholic families, and numerous other advocates are petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in favor of Catholic schools seeking to be included in Colorado’s universal preschool funding program.  ... read more

Colorado state capitol in Denver. / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 11:52 am (CNA). The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a coalition of Catholic families, and numerous other advocates are petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in favor of Catholic schools seeking to be included in Colorado’s universal preschool ... read more

Interim Staff On Oct. 6, the British Columbia legislature debated for an hour a motion condemning Association for Reformed Political Action’s (ARPA) “views and policies.” NDP MLA Rohini Arora (Burnaby East) introduced Motion 38, “Views and Policies of Association for Reformed Political Action.” The motion stated, “That this House condemns the intolerant views of the ... read more

Oswald Clark: Eric Kaufmann of the Centre for Heterodox Social published a report in October, “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans,” showing that the number of university students identifying as transgender is in steep decline. Using data collected by Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), polling 60,000 undergraduate ... read more

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Jubilee of Prisoners in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 14, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 19, 2025 / 11:05 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has written the preface to a new Vatican edition of the book “The Practice of the Presence of ... read more

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Jubilee of Prisoners in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 14, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 19, 2025 / 11:05 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has written the preface to a new Vatican edition of the book “The Practice of the Presence of God,” ... read more

Many people, including Catholics, look on the archbishop of New York as the leader of the U.S. Catholic Church. With this appointment, the pope has picked an archbishop who could lead the archdiocese until at least 2042. ... read more

By Julieta Villar ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 10:35 am Pope Leo XIV has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Venerable Enrique Shaw, an Argentine layman, husband, father, and businessman who died in 1962 at the age of 41. The prefect of the Dicastery for ... read more

Servant of God Enrique Shaw. / Credit: Acdeano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 10:35 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Venerable Enrique Shaw, an Argentine layman, husband, father, and businessman who died in 1962 at the age of ... read more