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Yaron Sideman is Israel's Ambassador to the Holy See. / Credit: "EWTN News Nightly"/ScreenshotCNA Staff, Jun 19, 2025 / 21:33 pm (CNA).In a June 19 interview with EWTN News, Israel's ambassador to the Holy See, Yaron Sideman, defended his country's attacks on Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, saying Israel is preventing World War III.Speaking with EWTN News correspondent Colm Flynn, Sideman said that Israel attacked Iran last week in what felt like the "eleventh hour," saying the country had no choice but to protect itself by destroying Iran's weapons programs.When asked if he thought Israel's attacks on Iran are bringing the world closer to a third world war, Sideman responded emphatically that "We are preventing a World War III." "We are preventing further escalation by depriving … the most dangerous regime on earth from the most dangerous deadly weapon on earth.""If we do not eliminate the nuclear program, it will eliminate us," he said.In recent ...
Los Angeles Archbishop José Gómez. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 19, 2025 / 18:53 pm (CNA).In an op-ed criticizing the current U.S. administration's mass deportation efforts and immigration raids, Los Angeles Archbishop José Gómez urged the federal government instead to take a case-by-case approach on how it handles immigrants who are in the country illegally.Gómez, who is himself an immigrant from Mexico and a naturalized citizen of the United States, penned the op-ed in the archdiocese-run Angelus News, in which he argued that the country needs "a new national conversation about immigration."According to Gómez, the conversation should be one that is "realistic and makes necessary moral and practical distinctions about those in our country illegally."The archbishop wrote that he is "deeply disturbed by the reports of federal agents detaining people in public places, apparently without showing warrants or evidence that those they are taking into cust...
St. Adalbert Parish in Chicago. / Credit: Gregg NagelCNA Staff, Jun 19, 2025 / 12:53 pm (CNA).The Chicago City Council on Wednesday voted to extend protection status to a historic Catholic parish in the city, handing a win to advocates who for years have urged the local government to protect the more-than-century-old structure.City leaders voted at their June 18 meeting to designate St. Adalbert's Parish in the Pilsen neighborhood as a Designated Chicago Landmark. The city government says that designated landmarks are subject to stricter development rules, including approval from the government regarding if, and how, they may be altered or changed.Preservationists hailed the designation on Wednesday. "BRAVO!!" Preservation Chicago wrote in an X post on Wednesday afternoon.The preservation group has been at the helm of efforts to preserve the church from demolition and development. They noted on Wednesday that the building has appeared on the group's "most endangered" historic p...
Cardinal Vincent Nichols, archbishop of Westminster, England (left), and Archbishop John Sherrington of Liverpool. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA; SimeonMarcel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDublin, Ireland, Jun 19, 2025 / 13:32 pm (CNA).Two prominent archbishops in England have said that if the End of Life Bill set for a final vote in Parliament on Friday passes, Catholic hospices and care homes may have no choice but to shut down.In a statement about the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill about to face its Third Reading on Friday in British Parliament, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, archbishop of Westminster, and Archbishop John Sherrington of Liverpool, who oversees life issues, said: "We call attention to the fact that the future of many care homes and hospices will be put in grave doubt if the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill becomes law."Nichols and Sherrington also addressed the protection amendments to the bill that have been rejected."Our Parliament has now ...
null / Credit: Butusova Elena/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Jun 19, 2025 / 14:02 pm (CNA).The man with the highest reported IQ in the world has gained attention worldwide after publicly proclaiming his Christianity on social media.On June 17, South Korean scientist YoungHoon Kim, who claims he has an IQ of 276, the highest IQ ever recorded, posted on X: "As the world's highest IQ record holder, I believe that Jesus Christ is God, the way and the truth and the life."His post has received 14 million views and a quarter-million likes as of Thursday, June 19.Kim's claim to being the world's highest IQ record holder has been verified by organizations such as the Giga Society, Mensa, World Memory Championships, World Memory Sports Council (in partnership with Guinness World Records), and Official World Record.Kim, responding to the tremendous popularity of his original post, said in another X post on June 19 that he "will use this opportunity to lead many souls to God.""Amen. Christ is my l...
Pope Leo XIV visits Vatican Radio's transmission center on June 19, 2025, in Santa Maria di Galeria, Italy. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Jun 19, 2025 / 15:33 pm (CNA).Pope Leo XIV visited the Vatican's radio transmitter station in Santa Maria di Galeria, Italy, on Thursday and thanked staff for their dedicated work in communicating the Church's mission around the world.During the June 19 site visit, the Holy Father blessed staff working in the central radio center on the Vatican's Corpus Christi holiday and reaffirmed the "missionary value" of their work in communication.Leo told staff he was grateful for Vatican news reports while in Africa and in Latin America as a missionary, the Holy See Press Office indicated in a telegram post on Thursday.The last pope to visit the Santa Maria di Galeria central radio center was John Paul II in 1991. Pope Pius XII inaugurated the site in 1957, more than two decades after Pope Pius XI pioneered Vatican Radio with Italian engineer a...
Mosaics by alleged abuser Father Marko Rupnik are displayed throughout the shrine in Lourdes, France. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNARome Newsroom, Jun 19, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).Advocates for sexual abuse victims say that religious art by the accused abuser Father Marko Rupnik should be taken down or covered up to spare victims further suffering. But Church authorities in charge of the works, which decorate prominent Catholic churches around the world, have responded to those calls in different ways. Rupnik has been accused of the sexual and psychological abuse of dozens of women under his spiritual care in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was briefly excommunicated by the Catholic Church in 2020 and expelled from the Jesuit order in 2023, but he remains a priest. The Vatican is still in the process of making a final judgment in his case.Responding to calls that Rupnik's works be covered or destroyed and for reproductions to be removed from websites and publications, shrine...
Jesus and the disciples during Season 4 of "The Chosen." / Credit: The Chosen/Mike KubeisyVatican City, Jun 19, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).On June 23, there will be an exclusive presentation at the Vatican of the fourth episode of the fifth season of "The Chosen," the successful series based on the life of Jesus Christ and the apostles.According to the Holy See Press Office, next Monday at 11:30 a.m. local time in the Marconi Hall, the cast and producers of "The Chosen" will hold a press conference to discuss the innovative and impactful series.Jonathan Roumie, the actor who plays Jesus, will be in attendance for the presentation of the fifth season, titled "The Last Supper." Also present will be Dallas Jenkins, creator and director of the series; Elizabeth Tabish, who portrays Mary Magdalene in the series; George Xanthis, who plays St. John; and Vanessa Benavente, who plays the Virgin Mary.They will also discuss the release of two feature films by "The Chosen" about the crucifixion...
Scenes from the beatification of Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a Congolese martyr, in Rome on Sunday, June 15, 2025. In a Monday, June 16, audience with pilgrims from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who traveled for the beatification of Bwana Chui at the Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls, the Holy Father said: "This Congolese layman highlights the precious witness of the laity and young people." / Credit: Vatican MediaACI Africa, Jun 18, 2025 / 11:57 am (CNA).Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a Congolese martyr beatified in Rome on Sunday, June 15, provides a powerful testament to the invaluable witness of the laity and youth, Pope Leo XIV said.In his Monday, June 16, audience with pilgrims from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who traveled to participate in the beatification of Bwana Chui at the Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, the Holy Father said: "This Congolese layman highlights the precious witness of the laity and young people.""T...
Father Theodore Gabrielli, SJ. / Credit: San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's OfficeCNA Staff, Jun 18, 2025 / 12:27 pm (CNA).A priest in California has been arrested and charged with acts of child sex abuse that reportedly occurred through the 1990s. Police arrested Father Theodore Gabrielli last week on charges of aggravated sexual assault of a minor, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office said in a post on X on Tuesday. Authorities identified three alleged male victims of the priest, the sheriff's office said; all three were members of the same family. At the time of the alleged abuse, "the family was living in Mexico" where they allegedly befriended Gabrielli. "The priest became close with the family, and he was allowed to take the three boys with him to many places in California including his parents' residence in Los Osos," the sheriff's office said. "It was there, the victims stated, the priest would sexually assault them." The alleged assaults "...
