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Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on September 27, 2025. / Daniel IbáñezVatican City, Sep 27, 2025 / 07:30 am (CNA).Pope Leo XIV marked the Jubilee of Catechists on Saturday, urging practitioners of the Church's lay teaching ministry to hand on the faith in a way that helps others encounter Christ personally, rooted in humility and hope.In his general catechesis, the pope spoke to all the faithful: "God reveals himself to those who are simple and humble of heart because they are open to receiving him," he said.Leo recalled the election of Saint Ambrose as bishop of Milan, chosen by popular acclaim while still preparing for baptism. "It was also docility that led Ambrose to respond to that call, trusting in the grace of God," he said. Christians today, he added, are likewise invited "to become childlike. Whether we are parents, students or catechists; businesspeople, priests or religious, we are all called to live our Christian faith...
King Charles III and Queen Camilla view items on display during a visit to the Royal Collection exhibition in the Green Drawing Room during the state visit by the president of the United States of America at Windsor Castle on Sept. 17, 2025, in Windsor, England. The royal couple have announced a state visit to the Vatican in late October 2025. / Credit: Aaron Chown - WPA Pool/Getty ImagesLondon, England, Sep 26, 2025 / 19:01 pm (CNA).King Charles III and Queen Camilla will be making their first state visit to the Vatican in late October, Buckingham Palace has announced.The palace said in a Sept. 27 statement that the king and queen "will join His Holiness Pope Leo XIV in celebrating the 2025 Jubilee Year," which, it noted, is a "special time" for the Catholic Church, "traditionally marked every 25 years."The palace also said the visit would "celebrate the ecumenical work by the Church of England and the Catholic Church, reflecting the jubilee year's theme of walking together as...
Catholic pro-life activist Savannah Craven Antao was assaulted in New York City on Thursday, April 3, 2025, while conducting a video interview with a pro-abortion advocate. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Savannah Craven AntaoCNA Staff, Sep 26, 2025 / 10:37 am (CNA).The suspect in the violent assault of a pro-life advocate in New York City earlier this year will not face charges after a prosecutor's office dropped the case against the alleged assailant.The Thomas More Society said this week it was launching a civil lawsuit against Brianna Rivers over her alleged assault of Savannah Craven Antao after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg dismissed the case.Rivers struck Antao in the face and left her bloodied in the April assault in Manhattan. The assault, which was caught on camera, came as Antao was calmly interviewing Rivers and debating pro-life politics with her.VIDEO OF THE ASSAULT OF PRO LIFE JOURNALIST BY PRO-ABORTION ADVOCATE IN NEW YORKSavannah Craven was working with ...
Patricipants gather at a Courage and EnCourage annual conference. / Credit: Courage InternationalCNA Staff, Sep 26, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).Courage International, the Catholic apostolate that helps men and women experiencing same-sex attraction "persevere on the path of holiness," marked 45 years of ministry on Sept. 26, celebrating nearly half a century of helping individuals struggling with sexuality to "live a chaste life" in line with Church teaching. The Connecticut-based organization traces its earliest roots to an effort started by New York archbishop Cardinal Terence Cooke, who in 1978 conceived of a same-sex attraction ministry and asked Father John Harvey, OSFS, to lead the effort. Harvey, who died in 2010, authored the 1979 pamphlet "A Spiritual Plan to Redirect One's Life," offering a program for "homosexually-oriented persons" to "achieve a chaste, productive, and happy life." The apostolate held its first official meeting the following year on Sept. 2...
Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for his weekly general audience on Sept. 17, 2025, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Sep 26, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Filippo Iannone as prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops, a department the pope himself once led.The appointment, announced Sept. 26, marks Leo's first selection of a head of a major Vatican office since his election in May.Iannone, 67, an Italian canon lawyer, has headed the Dicastery for Legislative Texts as prefect since 2022.This is a developing story and will be updated.
Bishop Abdallah Elias Zaidan of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles serves as chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 26, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).The United States bishops have expressed their solidarity with the bishops and faithful in Africa "as they offer the world a profound witness of respect for human life and dignity amidst ongoing conflicts" on the continent.In a Sept. 24 statement, Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on International Justice and Peace, said the bishops "pray that government officials and people of all faiths may work together to bring lasting peace, justice, and security to the continent.""In 2025, millions of our brothers and sisters on the African continent live displaced from their homes and communities, forced to flee due to conflict, religious and ethnic persecutio...
A Planned Parenthood facility in Minneapolis. / Credit: Ken Wolter/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Sep 25, 2025 / 18:23 pm (CNA).A $1.8 billion lawsuit brought by an anonymous activist and the state of Texas is seeking to recover money they say Planned Parenthood illegally took from Medicaid.The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Thursday in the case, Doe v. Planned Parenthood.When Planned Parenthood was exposed for selling fetal tissue and organs, Louisiana and Texas quickly moved to revoke the organization's Medicaid eligibility. Court orders delayed the revocation.As the courts debated Planned Parenthood's eligibility, the group continued to make Medicaid reimbursement claims despite the uncertain status until 2020, when the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the states. In a lawsuit filed in 2021, a whistleblower sued Planned Parenthood under the False Claims Act. Designed to protect taxpayer dollars from fraudulent actors, the False Claims Act r...
Bishop Ciro Quispe López, bishop emeritus of Juli, Peru. / Credit: Archdiocese of CuscoACI Prensa Staff, Sep 25, 2025 / 16:18 pm (CNA).Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Bishop Ciro Quispe López of Juli, Peru, following a Vatican investigation initiated in mid-2024 into several accusations against him of sexual misconduct with women and financial mismanagement."The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Territorial Prelature of Juli [Peru], presented by Bishop Ciro Quispe López," the Vatican Press Office reported Sept. 24 without providing further details.Quispe and the Prelature of Juli did not immediately respond to a request for comment.In statements to the American media outlet Crux in 2024, the bishop said malevolent forces were behind the accusations against him. In response to a query from a local newspaper, he said "all these things, brother, are under investigation" and "we are currently in that process," without specifying whether...
Protesters wave the Union Jack and St. George's Cross flags during the "Unite the Kingdom" rally on Westminster Bridge by the Houses of Parliament on Sept. 13, 2025, in London. / Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 25, 2025 / 16:48 pm (CNA).Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the president of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, has joined other church leaders in England to express concern that protesters were "co-opting Christianity" at the recent "Unite the Kingdom" rally in London."As leaders of Christian churches in this country, we wish to express our deep concern that in the recent rally 'Unite the Kingdom' and in other places, use has been made, by some, of the symbols and words of the Christian faith to support views and attitudes actually opposed" to the Christian message, the presidents of Churches Together in England (CTE) said in a Sept. 23 statement. "In contrast, we wish to state clearly some of the key messages of our shared...
Georgetown University, located in Washington, D.C., is the nation's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. / Credit: Rob Crandall/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 25, 2025 / 17:18 pm (CNA).United States Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced that police are investigating a number of posters displayed on Georgetown University's campus that appear to be recruiting students for a leftist gun club linked to violence. "I am aware of the appalling posters that were displayed on Georgetown's campus today," McMahon wrote in a post to the social media platform X on Sept. 24. The flyers found around the Jesuit campus advertise for students to "Join the John Brown Gun Club," a left-wing and "anti-fascist" extremist group that first formed in Kansas. The network of clubs around the country takes its name from the 19th-century abolitionist John Brown.One of the flyers makes references to words allegedly written on a shell casing by Charlie Kirk's suspected assass...
