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President Donald J. Trump watches as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services Secretary, speaks after being sworn in on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 18, 2025 / 13:31 pm (CNA). The Department of Health and ... read more

The Michigan capitol building in Lansing. / Credit: John McLenaghan/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 18, 2025 / 12:36 pm (CNA). Counselors and therapists in Michigan will be allowed to treat children who believe themselves to be the opposite sex, striking down a Michigan law that outlawed such counseling by claiming it constitutes “conversion ... read more

New York Archbishop-elect Ronald Hicks and Cardinal Timothy Dolan hold a press conference at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Dec. 18, 2025, in New York City. | Credit: Adam Gray/Getty Images CNA Staff, Dec 18, 2025 / 06:00 am The newly announced leader of the Catholic Church in New York expressed “heartfelt gratitude” on Dec. 18 ... read more

Gabriel Bouys Cardinal Timothy Dolan visits St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave on March 12, 2013, at the Vatican. COMMENTARY: Here are 12 of the many things for which the Church in New York and beyond should be grateful to the departing archbishop. ... read more

Jeffrey Bruno Nine men were ordained to the Sacred Order of the Diaconate for the Diocese of Trenton on Saturday, November 15, 2025, during a solemn liturgy celebrated at the Co-Cathedral of St.. Robert Bellarmine in Freehold, New Jersey. Among them was Deacon Gerald “Gez” Ford, whose journey of faith and service culminated ... read more

Detail of ‘Finding Flannery’ book cover O’Connor initially captured their attention with her words, but this traveling sisterhood hoped they’d uncover something far deeper to help them grow in their writing and faith. ... read more

Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV passes through the Holy Door carrying the jubilee cross as he leads the pilgrimage of the Holy See on June 9, 2025. This Holy Door is slated to be reopened in 2033, when the Church celebrates the Extraordinary Holy Year of the Redemption. ... read more

"Unfortunately, it has become increasingly common to drag the language of faith into political battles, to bless nationalism, and to justify violence and armed struggle in the name of religion," the pope wrote in his message for World Peace Day. "Believers must actively refute, above all by the witness of their lives, these forms of blasphemy that profane ... read more

John McElroy Catholic faithful gather on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, in St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral in Dublin to celebrate two milestones: a decree from Pope Leo XIV formally designating St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Dublin and the cathedral’s bicentenary. Ide Finnegan, the archdiocese finance administrator and head of ... read more

With Communion bowls in hand, a group of California bishops walked through the barbed wire gates of the ICE Processing Center and offered Jesus to the men locked inside. This moment of the Mass, celebrated Dec. 10 outside the town of Adelanto in the Mojave Desert, was deeply emotional for both the bishops and the roughly 300 detainees present. ... read more

In the new Apostolic Letter In Unitate Fidei it is a pleasure to see Pope Leo doubling down on the importance of Christian unity precisely by not watering down the Catholic Faith, but rather by insisting on the absolute truth of the fundamental Catholic creed set forth by the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. ... read more

The Catholic Church in Canada has been backpedaling since 2021, when the reports first appeared of mass graves at the “residential schools” run by Catholic religious orders for children of the indigenous (Indian) tribes. To date, exactly zero such “mass graves” have actually been discovered. But critics of the Church have never let a lack ... read more

We didn’t used to think of the holiday dinner table as a flashpoint for heated family disagreements about health care, abortion, and Donald Trump. But somewhere along the way, we began to...or maybe we were taught to. In 2022, the Biden White House released talking points for correcting your wayward relatives over the holidays. A ... read more

The place of gratitude in human life is at once obvious and remarkably complex. Great pagan philosophers (such as Seneca) as well as Christian theologians (such as Thomas Aquinas) have treated it at some length. This much is clear: learning both to be grateful and to express it regularly are central to the art of ... read more

Sean Pavone The Virginia State Capitol in Richmond COMMENTARY: As Virginia’s new political landscape takes shape, Catholic leaders warn that physician-assisted suicide and weakened conscience rights could soon return to the legislative agenda. ... read more