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  • Pope Leo XIV meets with 15 abuse survivors at the Vatican
    Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on November 5, 2025. / Vatican Media Vatican City, Nov 8, 2025 / 15:00 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV met on Saturday with 15 survivors of clergy sexual abuse in a meeting marked by dialogue, listening, and prayer, according to the Holy See Press Office.The […]
  • Amid clown protesters, Boston men’s march for life remains ‘prayerful’
    Police protect marchers at the fourth annual National Men’s March to Abolish Abortion and Rally for Personhood in Boston on Nov. 1, 2025. / Credit: Brother Anthony Marie MICM CNA Staff, Nov 8, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news:Amid clown protesters, Boston men’s march for life […]
  • Florida announces $350 million false advertising lawsuit against Planned Parenthood
    Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier speaks with EWTN News’ Catherine Hadro on “EWTN News Nightly” on Nov. 7, 2025.  / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot CNA Staff, Nov 8, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Florida is suing Planned Parenthood for up to $350 million for allegedly falsely advertising abortion pills as “safer than Tylenol,” a claim […]
  • The Gospel of Qaraqosh: 13th-century Syriac manuscript preserved in Vatican Library
    The Gospel of Baghdeda manuscript. / Credit: Vatican Apostolic Library ACI MENA, Nov 8, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). In the Vatican Apostolic Library rests one of its most treasured possessions: the “Gospel of Qaraqosh,” a richly illuminated Syriac manuscript dating back to the 13th century. Catalogued as “Vat. Syr. 559,” it was penned in […]
  • Cardinal Orlando Quevedo: Mindanao’s ‘Man of Peace’ and his lifelong mission of unity
    Cardinal Orlando Beltran Quevedo blesses Catholics after celebrating a Mass in Cotabato on Oct. 11, 2024. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Santosh Digal Manila, Philippines, Nov 8, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Cardinal Orlando Beltran Quevedo, OMI, archbishop emeritus of Cotabato, has spent a lifetime building bridges of understanding across the complex cultural and religious […]
  • DHS blasts order for improvements to migrant facility, says it houses ‘worst of the worst’
    Auxiliary Bishop Jose María García-Maldonado attempts to visit detainees at the Broadview, Illinois, immigration facility and was not admitted Nov. 1, 2025. / Credit: Bryan Sebastian, courtesy of Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership Washington, D.C., Nov 7, 2025 / 18:40 pm (CNA). The Trump administration this week denounced a Chicago-based federal judge’s ruling that […]
  • New Jersey diocese drops lawsuit in anticipation of fix to foreign-born priest visa issue
    null / Credit: Taiga/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 7, 2025 / 18:10 pm (CNA). A Catholic diocese in New Jersey has dropped a lawsuit against the U.S. government over a rule change to the religious worker visa used by foreign-born priests. Attorneys for the Diocese of Paterson dropped a lawsuit they filed last year against the […]
  • ‘This is our faith in action:’ Catholic groups expand food aid amid SNAP cuts
    Volunteers prepare and distribute food to families coming through the drive-through distribution site at the Catholic Charities Diocese of Galveston-Houston Guadalupe Center, a food pantry near central Houston. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston CNA Staff, Nov 7, 2025 / 17:40 pm (CNA). As federal food benefits have been […]
  • Pope Leo XIV plans to hold major meeting of cardinals in January
    Cardinals follow the ceremony during the ordinary public consistory for the creation of new cardinals at St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, Dec. 7, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA National Catholic Register, Nov 7, 2025 / 17:10 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV is planning to convene an extraordinary consistory of cardinals in early January, the theme […]
  • Pope Leo XIV warns about new addictions: pornography and internet abuse
    null / Credit: sitthiphong/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 7, 2025 / 16:11 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Friday warned about new addictions of recent times such as compulsive gambling, betting, and pornography as consequences of excessive internet use.The Holy Father issued his warning in a video message addressed to participants in the seventh National […]