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Cardinal Christophe Pierre speaks to EWTN News President and COO Montse Alvarado in Rome on Friday, April 25, 2025. / Credit: EWTN NewsBaltimore, Maryland, Nov 11, 2025 / 14:26 pm (CNA).Apostolic Nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre told bishops at the 2025 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Fall Plenary Assembly that the Second Vatican Council is "the key to understanding what Church we are called to be today and the reference point for discerning where we are headed."The French-born prelate has served as the Vatican's nuncio, or chief diplomat, to the U.S. since 2016. He spoke Nov. 11 at the bishops' fall assembly in Baltimore highlighting the message of Vatican II and its mission of evangelization, education, and unity. In his address Pierre asked the bishops a two-part question: "Where have we been and where are we going?" Pope Leo XIV, in his new apostolic letter on education, asks the same question as he "urges education and communities to 'raise your...
Cardinal Stephen Ameyu, president of the Sudan and South Sudan Catholic Bishops' Conference (SSS-CBC), urged Catholic leaders this week to strengthen unity, foster nonviolence, and reinforce pastoral structures as the Church responds to the plight of the people of God in Sudan and South Sudan. / Credit: Catholic Radio NetworkACI Africa, Nov 11, 2025 / 14:56 pm (CNA).The president of the Sudan and South Sudan Catholic Bishops' Conference (SSS-CBC) raised alarm over the deepening humanitarian crisis in the two neighboring countries of Sudan and South Sudan. In his opening remarks to SSS-CBC members in the Catholic Diocese of Malakal in South Sudan, Cardinal Stephen Ameyu urged Catholic leaders to strengthen unity, foster nonviolence, and reinforce pastoral structures as the Church responds to the plight of the people of God in Sudan and South Sudan.Ameyu described the meeting as "a sign of communion that binds us as the body of Christ; a communion that strengthens the bonds ...
null / Credit: Ariya J/ShutterstockPuebla, Mexico, Nov 11, 2025 / 15:34 pm (CNA).The Catholic Church in Mexico expressed its opposition to the attempt to legalize euthanasia and warned of the "risk of validating totalitarian and eugenic ideologies."In an editorial in its weekly publication Desde la fe ("From the Faith"), titled "A Good Death and the Myth of Euthanasia," the Archdiocese of Mexico City lamented that "a campaign to promote euthanasia has begun, taking it as a fact that euthanasia means the same thing as a good death."The editorial called it "a major error from an anthropological, legal, and human rights perspective" to believe that the Mexican Constitution "only protects a life with dignity," while "life that involves pain and suffering is considered unworthy" of the person.From this perspective, the archdiocese warned, "we would be at risk of validating totalitarian and eugenic ideologies that have existed throughout human history and have caused so much harm, di...
Credit: Flamingo Images/shutterstockCNA Staff, Nov 11, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).Although school vouchers were not on any statewide ballot in recent elections, the legislative push for and implementation of voucher programs is growing throughout the country, particularly in Republican-led states.While the programs continue to receive pushback from Democrats and teachers unions, traditionally conservative groups like home-schoolers and rural residents have been increasingly voicing their disapproval.David Tamisiea, executive director for the North Dakota Catholic Conference, said in a recent presentation at the Society for Catholic Social Scientists conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville that he was surprised when he first encountered Catholic parents who opposed educational choice in the form of school vouchers.He defined educational choice as "the idea that parents should have the freedom to choose the educational setting best suited to their child" and said that "to ...
The Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Scotland's Catholic bishops and pro-life groups have raised alarms about the effects a proposed assisted suicide bill may have upon disabled and vulnerable people after a number of key amendments were rejected. / Credit: Reinhold Möller, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsEdinburgh, Scotland, Nov 11, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).Scotland's Catholic bishops and pro-life groups have raised alarms about the effects a proposed assisted suicide bill may have upon disabled and vulnerable people after a number of key amendments were rejected.Assisted suicide is currently illegal in Scotland, but if Liam McArthur's Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill becomes law, terminally ill adults will be given assistance to end their own lives.After the committee considering the bill on Nov. 4 rejected several amendments to make the bill safer, the president of the Scottish bishops' conferenc...
Cardinal Gerhard Müller. / Credit: La Sacristía de la VendéeMadrid, Spain, Nov 11, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, called for overcoming ideological divisions within the Catholic Church in a Spanish-language interview on the "Sacristy of the Vendé" YouTube channel in which he reflects on the "instrumentalization" of abuse cases.Held last July, the interview was released this week after the coordinator of the priests' YouTube discussion group, Father Francisco José Delgado, was acquitted of charges of "inciting hatred" against the Holy See, interfering in the Vatican's investigation into the Sodality of Christian Life, and damaging the "good reputation" of layman José Enrique Escardó, one of the main proponents of the case against that apostolate.Müller stated that, since its inception, the Catholic Church has experienced divisions "because of these false doctrines, heresies, or pagan ideologies" ...
USCCB President Archbishop Timothy Broglio speaks at the bishops' spring meeting, Thursday, June 13, 2024. / Credit: USCCBWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 11, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).Archbishop Timothy Broglio's leadership of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) comes to an end Nov. 11 after a three-year term.Broglio, the archbishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, was elected to the office of president in November 2022. In his time, the USCCB has defended religious freedom and the right to life, opposed gender ideology, defended migrants, and promoted international peace.The USCCB voting guide continued to highlight abortion as its "preeminent priority" through the Broglio presidency. Because the conference represents the Church in Washington, D.C., this led to tension with the presidency of Joe Biden, which overlapped with Broglio's tenure.When Biden told an EWTN reporter that "not all" of the Catholic bishops oppose tax funds for abortion, B...
Swiss Guards and faithful pilgrims holding olive branches line the processional route in St. Peter's Square for Palm Sunday celebrations, April 13, 2025. The ancient Vatican obelisk stands at the center of the square as clergy process toward the basilica. / Credit: Bénédicte Cedergren/EWTN NewsVatican City, Nov 11, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA).The Pontifical Swiss Guard this week opened an internal investigation to clarify an alleged act of antisemitism committed by one of its guards against two Jewish women in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican confirmed. "The Pontifical Swiss Guard received a complaint regarding an incident that occurred at one of the entrances to Vatican City State in which elements interpreted as antisemitic were allegedly detected," Holy See Press Office Director Matteo Bruni stated on Monday.The reported incident took place during Pope Leo XIV's Oct. 29 general audience commemorating the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the 1965 declaration on the Church's r...
St. Martin of Tours sharing his cloak with a beggar by François Joseph Thomas De Backer. / Credit: François Joseph Thomas De Backer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCNA Staff, Nov 11, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).On Nov. 11, the Catholic Church honors St. Martin of Tours, who left his post in the Roman army to become a "soldier of Christ."Martin was born around the year 316 in modern-day Hungary. His family left that region for Italy when his father, a military official of the Roman Empire, was transferred there. Martin's parents were pagans, but he felt an attraction to the Catholic faith, which had become legal throughout the empire in 313. He received religious instruction at age 10 and even considered becoming a hermit in the desert.Circumstances, however, forced Martin to join the Roman army at age 15, when he had not even received baptism. Martin strove to live a humble and upright life in the military, giving away much of his pay to the poor. His generosity led to a life-cha...
Kim Davis (at right) is pictured here in 2015, when she served as Clerk of the Courts in Rowan County, Kentucky. Citing a sincere religious objection, Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples in defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. / Credit: Ty Wright/Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 10, 2025 / 18:12 pm (CNA).The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined a request to overturn its 2015 decision to legalize same-sex marriage. Kim Davis, a Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk from 2015 through 2019, petitioned the Supreme Court in July to reconsider the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which legalized same-sex civil marriages nationally.Davis requested the court also hear her case 10 years later after she made headlines for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. She served multiple days in jail for contempt of court for violating a judicial order to issue the marriage licenses.Davis was ordered to pay more than $360,000 in damages and...
