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Pope Leo XIV speaks at a Wednesday audience with the public on June 11, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNAVatican City, Jun 11, 2025 / 09:12 am (CNA).Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Joseph Lin Yuntuan as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Fuzhou in China, the Holy See announced on Wednesday.The Vatican credited the Sino-Vatican deal, signed in September 2019 and renewed for a third time in October 2024, for Lin Yuntuan's June 5 appointment.The Vatican announced "the recognition of the civil effects and the taking of possession of the office of Monsignor Joseph Lin Yuntuan." The announcement said the Holy Father made the appointment "in the framework of the dialogue regarding the application of the provisional agreement between the Holy See and the People's Republic of China."Lin Yuntuan, 73, was ordained a priest for the Fuzhou Archdiocese, located in China's Fujian Province, in 1984 after completing four years of studies in the local seminary. He was clandestinely consecr...
Jay Richards, the director of the Heritage Foundation's DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, speaks at a Fidelity Month gathering on June 9, 2025, in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill. / Credit: Madalaine Elhabbal/CNAWashington D.C., Jun 11, 2025 / 09:54 am (CNA).Members of the grassroots movement promoting the month of June as "Fidelity Month" at a gathering on Capitol Hill on Monday called for a renewal of the "common bonds" that unite Americans.Fidelity Month bills itself as "a positive, grassroots movement to heal division and restore unity in our nation. It celebrates June as a season of recommitment to God, our spouses and families, our communities, and country," according to the Fidelity Month website. Princeton professor Robert George founded the movement in 2023 after reading a Wall Street Journal article citing survey data that showed significant declines in Americans' belief in the importance of religion, family, and patriotism.It was t...
null / Credit: Korawat photo shoot/ShutterstockRome, Italy, Jun 11, 2025 / 10:46 am (CNA).The head of a sex abuse survivors' group in Italy expressed his doubts that a recent report on safeguarding efforts published by the Italian bishops' conference presents a complete picture of the scale of the abuse crisis in the local Church.Francesco Zanardi, a survivor and founder of Rete L'Abuso, told CNA that the conference (known by the Italian acronym CEI) has only published "partial reports every year or every two years" since 2020, which makes it hard to make an accurate assessment."It's difficult to make a comparison because we don't know which cases they are talking about or which geographical area in Italy they are talking about when they give these numbers," he said. "It's a bit like if there's a hole in the middle of the road and instead of repairing the hole, you're just there counting how many people fall into that hole, but you don't fix it.""Let's just say this report says...
A group of pilgrims in St. Peter's Square. / Credit: EWTN NewsVatican City, Jun 11, 2025 / 11:32 am (CNA)."Rome '25-the Way of St. James '27-Jerusalem '33" is the name of an initiative led by young people who, through pilgrimages, evangelization, and healing, aim to "restore the soul of Europe."The initiative encourages young Christians from across the continent to open up a pathway to faith and hope for a new European generation in preparation for the Jubilee of Redemption, which will be celebrated in 2033."It's not just about making the pilgrimage but about rediscovering God and our Christian identity, walking the pilgrim paths of Europe with a new, courageous, and joyful perspective," the young people stated in a press release issued by the Spanish Bishops' Conference, one of the promoters of the initiative.Young Christians in Europe 'raising their voices'In this way, young Christians in Europe "are raising their voices" to tell the world that another Europe is possible and ...
Pope Leo XIV address papal representatives on June 10, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Jun 10, 2025 / 14:11 pm (CNA).Pope Leo XIV received papal representatives at the Vatican on Tuesday, reminding them that the Church "will always defend the sacrosanct right to believe in God" and that this life "is not at the mercy of the powers of this world."In the June 10 speech delivered in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, he thanked the papal nuncios and international organizations around the world for their work.The pontiff noted that "there is no country in the world" with a diplomatic corps as universal and united as that of the Holy See: "We are united in Christ and we are united in the Church.""I say this thinking certainly of the dedication and organization, but, even more so, of the motivations that guide you, the pastoral style that should characterize you, the spirit of faith that inspires us," he added.He particularly thanked them ...
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, the archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, asked President Donald Trump for aid to Africa an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, June 8, 2025. / Credit: François-Régis Salefran CC BY-SA 4.0 DEEDWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 10, 2025 / 15:19 pm (CNA).Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo asked U.S. President Donald Trump this weekend to reinstate foreign aid to Africa. "Targeted humanitarian aid for Africa is urgently needed, morally good, and of great strategic value to the U.S," Ambongo, the archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, wrote in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday afternoon. "??President Trump has made clear that he will put the needs of his country and its citizens first before attending to the needs of the world. No leader of a nation as great as the U.S. could do otherwise," the cardinal stated. "It would be a mistake, however, for Mr. Trump to forget about A...
null / Credit: Tati9/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Jun 10, 2025 / 15:51 pm (CNA).A U.S.-based biotech company has announced the launch of Nucleus Embryo, a company that screens human embryos for desired genetic profiles, a practice the Catholic Church teaches violates human dignity and contributes to a eugenic mentality. People undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) will be able to screen up to 20 embryos for over 900 conditions and traits, including health risks, intelligence, and physical characteristics like height and eye color, in order to "optimize" their embryos, according to Kian Sadeghi, founder of Nucleus Genomics, parent company of Nucleus Embryo."I see a world where sequencing, analyzing, and editing DNA merge seamlessly to create a truly preventative health care system," the 25-year-old Sadeghi said on the company's website, adding: "Every parent wants to give their children more than they had. For the first time in human history, Nucleus adds a new tool to that com...
Harvard University professor of mathematics and biology Martin Nowak speaks at the annual conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists on June 8, 2025, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Tessa Gervasini/CNAWashington D.C., Jun 10, 2025 / 08:50 am (CNA).Harvard professor of mathematics and biology Martin Nowak focused on math as a path to God during a presentation at the 2025 annual conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists in Washington, D.C.During a June 8 lecture titled "Does Mathematics Lead Us to God?" Nowak said that among other things, math can be viewed as "an argument for the existence of God."Harvard professor Martin Nowak's discussion of mathematics was a hot topic at the Society of Catholic Scientists conference on June 8, 2025, especially given recent attention to Pope Leo XIV having earned a degree in mathematics at Villanova University. Credit: Tessa Gervasini/CNAReferencing St. Augustine, Nowak said math is like "an intelligible object." "We judge mathemati...
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 10, 2025 / 09:20 am (CNA).Since last year, there has been a 32% decline in U.S. child abuse allegations against Catholic clergy, according to the 2024 annual report of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection. Overall, "902 allegations were reported by 855 victims-survivors of child sexual abuse by clergy," the report said, compared with 1,308 allegations by 1,254 survivors last year. Covering July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024, the annual report is based on a survey of 195 U.S. Catholic dioceses and eparchies, drawn from data collected by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University as well as an audit by StoneBridge Business Partners. The annual reporting stems f...
Grandly co-founder and director Pili Abouchaar (right) discusses the apostolate's work with grandparents on "EWTN Pro-Life Weekly" on June 4, 2025. / Credit: "EWTN Pro-Life Weekly"/ScreenshotWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 10, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA)."What if the most important thing that God wants you to do is still in front of you, and that is passing on the faith to your grandchildren?" That's the proposition Pili Abouchaar focuses on as co-founder and director of Grandly, an apostolate dedicated to helping grandparents do just that.In an interview on "EWTN Pro-Life Weekly," Abouchaar acknowledged that grandparents often feel helpless and hopeless in regard to this mission, but Grandly can make a difference in their approach and outlook. "The main thing that we try to tackle in our mission in Grandly is to try to give grandparents hope to help them bridge that generational gap between how they were raised and how youth culture is moving right now."The apostolate, which cel...
