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Pope Leo XIV meets with Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2025. / Credit: Vatican MediaCNA Staff, Oct 9, 2025 / 12:25 pm (CNA).Pope Leo XIV addressed immigration policies and respect for vulnerable migrants in a meeting with Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago and labor leaders at the Vatican on Thursday. "Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters. While recognizing that appropriate policies are necessary to keep communities safe, I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable," the pontiff said. In his meeting with Chicago union leaders, the pope also praised their important work to "enhance the common good and help to create a society where all can flourish." Pope Leo receives a T-shirt that notes his Chicago roots in a meeting with American labor leaders on Oct. 9, 2025, at the Vatican. Credit: Vati...
Kat Talalas, Amy Ford, Christopher Bell, and Sister Maria Frassati, SV, speak at the Leading with Love Conference at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8, 2025. / Credit: Tessa Gervasini/CNAWashington, D.C., Oct 9, 2025 / 12:55 pm (CNA).Pro-life leaders from across the country gathered this week to discuss how faith-based ministries are helping to cultivate a society that promotes human dignity and how others can advance the cause.The Leading with Love Conference at The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C., was sponsored by the Human Life Foundation and the Center for Law and the Human Person at The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law. It was aimed at "empowering Christians to cultivate a culture of life within their local communities."Jennie Bradley Lichter, president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, spoke to attendees Oct. 8 about the power of faith-based ministries, including The Guadalupe ...
Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, speaks with EWTN News on Oct. 9, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: EWTN NewsVatican City, Oct 9, 2025 / 13:25 pm (CNA).Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, said immigration is a "Gospel issue" before it is a "political issue" in the United States. In an exclusive interview with EWTN News reporter Valentina Di Donato, Seitz said the Church has a responsibility to reaffirm Catholic social teaching regarding the preferential option for the poor. "It's always the role of the bishop to speak the Gospel, to reflect on that Gospel and its implications for our daily lives," the prelate told EWTN News. "We have a task to form people based on that teaching of love and mercy and compassion that applies not just in exceptional cases, not just to certain people, but in a special way to the poor and the vulnerable, and that includes immigrants," he said. Speaking about the "inalienable rights" every person is endowed with by God, the bis...
null / Credit: Krzysztof Slusarczyk/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 9, 2025 / 14:28 pm (CNA).The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has chosen Catholic media companies Ascension and Word on Fire to publish the Liturgy of the Hours, Second Edition.The Liturgy of the Hours, also known as the Divine Office, is a set of daily prayers that priests and religious are obliged to pray and that many lay Catholics also partake in. The prayers are set according to the Church calendar and are composed of psalms, hymns, and readings from Scripture.In November 2012, the U.S. bishops voted to revise the translation, following English translations of the Roman Missal, Third Edition, and the 2001 Vatican document Liturgiam Authenticam. The approval process was completed in November 2024 and on May 29 of this year, the USCCB sent the completed manuscript to the Holy See for confirmation.Ascension and Word on Fire, both known for their print, online, and video works, announced ...
Pope Leo XIV receives a video from the Hope Border Institute from Auxiliary Bishop Anthony Celino on Oct. 8, 2025. / Credit: Fernie Ceniceros/El Paso DioceseWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 8, 2025 / 17:13 pm (CNA).Pope Leo XIV became "visibly emotional" upon receiving messages on Oct. 8 from immigrants fearing deportation in the United States, a member of a U.S. delegation said.Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, Auxiliary Bishop Anthony Celino, and Dylan Corbett of Hope Border Institute gave the pope a collection of handwritten letters from migrant families expressing fear and faith. They showed the pope a video with immigrants' voices saying mass deportations in the United States are breaking family bonds and stripping children of safety."We live in a state of constant anxiety, never knowing if tomorrow will bring separation," an immigrant says in the video.Corbett posted on X that Leo told the delegation, which included immigrants: "The Church cannot stay silent before injus...
The Tomb of St. Francis. / Credit: Courtesy of Sacred Convent Press OfficeRome Newsroom, Oct 8, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).For the first time, the body of St. Francis of Assisi will be visible to all, from Feb. 22 to March 22, 2026. This religious and historical event was announced on the memorial of the saint of Assisi (Oct. 4) and will coincide with the eighth centenary of the death of St. Francis in 1226.The announcement was made from the Loggia delle Benedizioni by Fray Giulio Cesareo, director of the press office of the Sacred Convent, following Mass celebrated in the Upper Basilica of the Umbrian city, presided over by Monsignor Camillo Cibotti, president of the Episcopal Conference of Abruzzo and Molise, along with Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, papal legate for the papal basilicas of Assisi, the bishop of Assisi, and the general and provincial ministries of the Franciscan families.In his homily, Cibotti emphasized the "newness of life" that Francis presents to the world. "...
FDA sign outside their headquarters in Washington, D.C. / Credit: JHVEPhoto/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Oct 8, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).The U.S. Catholic bishops sharply criticized the Trump administration's recent approval of the generic abortion drug mifepristone, saying that women and children deserve better care. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug even as the administration is currently investigating the abortion drug for safety concerns. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has previously acknowledged concerns over the safety of the drug and said in a hearing last month that the investigation is ongoing. Even so, the FDA's approval of the generic version will make the drug even more accessible. "Mothers in need and their preborn children deserve better," said Bishop Daniel Thomas, who heads the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee, in response to the FDA's decision. In a statement, Thomas called the decision "jarri...
null / Credit: Wolfgang Schaller|ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 8, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA).The U.S. Supreme Court during oral arguments on Oct. 7 scrutinized Colorado's law banning counseling on gender identity with some justices voicing concern about possible viewpoint discrimination and free speech restrictions embedded in the statute.Colorado Solicitor General Shannon Stevenson defended the law, which prohibits licensed psychologists and therapists from engaging in any efforts that it considers "conversion therapy" when treating minors. It does not apply to parents, members of the clergy, or others.Nearly half of U.S. states have a similar ban. The Supreme Court ruling on this matter could set nationwide precedent on the legality of such laws. The Colorado law defines "conversion therapy" as treatments designed to change a person's "sexual orientation or gender identity," including changes to "behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or...
null / Credit: PIGAMA/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 8, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA).Brooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan is moving where the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) will take place in the diocese, and who will say it, as the diocese faces a clergy shortage following several priest deaths. "Bishop Brennan very much wants to meet the needs of the people and has developed an approach that will be more sustainable," diocesan spokesman John Quaglione told CNA. At the end of September, TLM attendees at St. Cecilia Church in Brooklyn were informed the Mass will no longer be offered there after Oct. 12 but will continue to be offered about five miles away at Our Lady Queen of Peace in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn and St. Josaphat's in the Bayside area of Queens.Quaglione told CNA that the weekly attendance at the Mass at St. Cecilia's was averaging between 25 and 35 people and was being served by a rotation of priests that can no longer continue because of the decl...
On Oct. 6, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a rehearing of the case filed by Apache Stronghold, a coalition of Native Americans and their supporters, that would have prevented the sale of a Native American sacred site to a mining company. / Credit: Photo courtesy of BecketCNA Staff, Oct 8, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA).A Native American group working to stop the destruction of a centuries-old religious ritual site has lost a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the transfer and obliteration of the Arizona parcel.The Supreme Court in an unsigned order on Oct. 6 said Apache Stronghold's petition for a rehearing had been denied. The court did not give a reason for the denial.Justice Neil Gorsuch would have granted the request, the order noted. Justice Samuel Alito, meanwhile, "took no part in the consideration or decision" of the order. The denial likely deals a death blow to the Apache group's attempts to halt the destruction of Oak Flat, which has been viewed as a...
