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New York Times columnist Ross Douthat speaks to "EWTN News in Depth" Anchor Catherine Hadro on Friday, June 6, 2025 / Credit: EWTN NewsCNA Staff, Jun 7, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).Americans could be on the cusp of a religious revival. according to Ross Douthat, an author, Catholic convert, and New York Times columnist. Douthat, who often writes on the intersection of faith, culture, and public life in his column, shared his thoughts on all things American and Catholic, from Pope Leo XIV to Vice President JD Vance to the American religious landscape, in an interview with Anchor Catherine Hadro on "EWTN News in Depth" on Friday.Douthat described the U.S. religious situation as a "a very unsettled but curious landscape," particularly after a years-long decline in religious interest that plateaued during the COVID-19 pandemic."It's not that America is having a religious revival. It's more that we're considering whether to have a religious revival," he said.Interest in rel...
Pastor Rick Warren speaks to EWTN Vatican Bureau Chief Andreas Thonhauser on "EWTN News Nightly," Friday, June 6, 2025 / Credit: EWTN NewsCNA Staff, Jun 7, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA).Evangelical pastor Rick Warren this week said the upcoming 2,000th anniversary of the death and resurrection of Jesus highlights the Lord's "unanswered prayer" of unity in the Christian world, a unity which he said will help bring the message of salvation to the world. Warren, the founder of the Baptist Saddleback Church in California, spoke to EWTN Vatican Bureau Chief Andreas Thonhauser in Rome on attending a gathering of Global 2033, a Catholic evangelization initiative working to spread the Gospel message ahead of the two-thousand-year observance of Christ rising from the dead. Asked by Thonhauser why he was speaking at a Catholic event, the Protestant minister claimed that "no single denomination can complete the Great Commission on their own." "There are 2.5 billion people in the world w...
Lois McClatchie Miller and Chris Elston were arrested by Belgian police this week while advocating for child protection from transgender medical treatments, June 5, 2025. / ADF InternationalCNA Staff, Jun 7, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA).Police in Brussels arrested pro-life activist Lois McLatchie Miller and child protection advocate Chris Elston on Wednesday for peacefully displaying signs that advocated for the protection of children against transgender medical treatments. The incident occurred when Miller, a Scottish senior legal communications officer with ADF International, and Elston, a Canadian pro-child activist known as "Billboard Chris", were surrounded by an angry mob as they held signs that read: "Children are never born in the wrong body" and "Children cannot consent to puberty blockers." The pair were in the EU capital engaging members of the European Parliament about the dangers of puberty blockers for children. Belgian police arrested the duo amid the non...
Sam Brownback. / Credit: Albert H. Teich/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Jun 7, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).In a recent interview with the Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe), former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback discussed how Christian organizations are increasingly being deplatformed and debanked when engaging in public debate and offered ways to address these challenges and uphold religious freedom. "The typical technique in the West is a suffocation technique on religion," Brownback told OIDAC Europe Executive Director Anja Hoffmann in an interview released June 4. OIDAC Europe is a nongovernmental organization that researches, analyzes, documents, and reports on cases of intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe. According to Brownback, examples of this technique include pro-life pregnancy centers being dropped by their insurance companies and o...
Cardinal Robert McElroy gives his first homily as the shepherd of the Archdiocese of Washington at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on March 11, 2025. / Credit: Patrick Ruddy/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 6, 2025 / 16:30 pm (CNA).The Archdiocese of Washington has announced plans to "cut spending, reduce its workforce, and restructure departments" to combat "crippling economic challenges."In a June 5 letter sent to archdiocesan staff members, Cardinal Robert McElroy indicated that the archdiocese has had an annual operating deficit of $10 million for the past five years, leading the archdiocese "to draw from financial reserves to cover shortfalls."The cardinal archbishop of Washington said "our situation has only been exacerbated by the present economic uncertainty that is impacting so many, both locally and globally." "I have come to the painful realization that the only way forward is to take drastic measures to achieve a balanced budge...
null / Credit: Mark Van Scyoc/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 6, 2025 / 17:27 pm (CNA).The U.S. Department of State (DOS) plans to destroy a reserve of artificial contraceptives that was previously set aside for distribution in developing countries through foreign aid programs.The stockpile, including birth control pills, condoms, and long-term implantable contraceptives, is worth more than $12 million.A senior State Department official confirmed to CNA that officials had concerns that some of the nongovernmental organizations previously contracted to distribute contraceptives may have participated in programs that performed coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.According to the official, the DOS is destroying the products to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to reinstate the Mexico City Policy, which bans taxpayer funding of organizations that promote abortion and forced sterilization abroad.Destroying the products will cost DOS about $16...
Seven Dominican brothers were ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Anthony Fisher, OP, who leads the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia. The newest Dominican priests are Louis Mary Bethea, Gregory Marie Santy, Bertrand Marie Hebert, Basil Mary Burroughs, Titus Mary Sanchez, Nicodemus Maria Thomas, and Linus Mary Martz, pictured here with the archbishop at their ordination at the the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 2025. / Credit: Jeffrey BrunoWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 6, 2025 / 17:57 pm (CNA).On Wednesday at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., seven Dominican brothers were ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Anthony Fisher, OP, who leads the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia."We are overjoyed at the ordination of seven of our brothers to the priesthood of Jesus Christ," Father Allen Moran, OP, prior provincial of the Dominican Friars of the Province of...
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, archbishop of Cologne in Germany. / Credit: Marko Orlovic/German Bishops' Conference (DBK)Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 6, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).Here's a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week that you might have missed:Petition to Pope Leo XIV to remove German cardinal gains over 60K signatures A petition launched by a Munich priest to Pope Leo XIV calling for the dismissal of Cologne, Germany, archbishop Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki has gained 60,130 signatures, CNA Deutsch, CNA's German-language news partner, reported on Wednesday. The German-language petition accuses Woelki of moral corruption and argues that he has lost all credibility in the public sphere and the Church at large after investigations of the cardinal were discontinued after the payment of a 26,000-euro (about $29,700) fine. The petition cites the cardinal's alleged failure to deal with sexual abuse by Church officials as legal basis for dismissal under can...
Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square for his general audience on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Jun 6, 2025 / 09:35 am (CNA).A group of European bishops have turned to Pope Leo XIV and the Holy See for help as the Court of Justice of the European Union reviews a Belgian court case about the cancellation of names from baptismal records.In a May 23 audience at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV "told us that he considers the issue very important. He mentioned it right from the start. He said, 'I really want to hear your opinion,'" Alessandro Calcagno, a lawyer and assistant general secretary of the European Union bishops' conference (COMECE), told ACI Stampa, CNA's Italian-language news partner.The Court of Justice of the European Union is currently hearing a case brought by the Brussels Court of Appeal, which asked for clarification about whether the Catholic Church's refusal to erase names from baptismal records when requeste...
null / Credit: Blue Planet Studio/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Jun 6, 2025 / 10:31 am (CNA).Catholic bishops from Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D.C., released a pastoral letter this week addressing the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and the Church's response to the numerous challenges and opportunities the technology presents. Signed by Baltimore Archbishop William Lori, Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, Wilmington Bishop William Koenig, and Maryland's four auxiliary bishops, the letter, titled "The Face of Christ in a Digital Age," urges Christians to discern "how to speak and live the Gospel amid the new language and powers emerging through artificial intelligence."Released ahead of the solemnity of Pentecost, the bishops write that Christians should not fear the rapid development of technology, which "is not foreign to the Spirit's work, for God's Spirit moves through history, culture, and human creativity."However, the bishops write: "Will we allow tec...
