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Brothers Father Joseph Wahlmeier (pictured on the left) and newly-ordained Father Isaac Wahlmeier (on the right), with their parents and Bishop James D. Conley after the ordination Mass May 24, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of LincolnLincoln, Neb., Jun 9, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).For parents, having the opportunity to see their children embrace the vocation to which God has called them marks the culmination of years of prayer and sacrifice. While most will see their children married, a smaller group will get to celebrate calls to the priesthood and religious life. Even more rare, though, is the opportunity to celebrate multiple ordinations from the same family, let alone among siblings. But as of Saturday, May 24, with the ordination of Father Isaac Wahlmeier, six families in the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, can celebrate such a blessing.These sets of brothers include Father Isaac Wahlmeier and his brother Father Joseph Wahlmeier, ordained in 2020, and Father...
Pope Leo XIV waves from the popemobile at the crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square for Mass on Pentecost Sunday on June 8, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNACNA Newsroom, Jun 8, 2025 / 12:05 pm (CNA).Follow our live coverage of the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV, first U.S.-born pope in history.
Sister Therese Mills, MGL, traveled from Australia to attend the Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, Associations, and New Communities in Rome, June 8, 2025. / Credit: Sister Therese MillsRome Newsroom, Jun 8, 2025 / 13:45 pm (CNA).Traveling more than 10,000 miles to take part in this weekend's Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, Associations, and New Communities, Sister Therese Mills, MGL, spoke to CNA of her great joy as she joined tens of thousands of other pilgrims in Rome.A leader of the Missionaries of God's Love Sisters, a charismatic Catholic group founded in Australia in 1987, Mills said her pilgrimage to Rome during the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope has been a time of refreshment and renewal.She described the "amazing" experience of walking through the Jubilee Door of St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday, the first day of the special jubilee dedicated to new Catholic movements and associations. Mills recalled "just opening my hands and just praying that the Lord would refr...
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Solemnity of Pentecost in St. Peter's Square on June 8, 2025. In his homily, he emphasized the significance of the Holy Spirit in the life of a Christian. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Jun 8, 2025 / 08:42 am (CNA).Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the Solemnity of Pentecost in St. Peter's Square on Sunday with international pilgrims belonging to new Church movements, associations, and communities celebrating this year's Jubilee Year of Hope in Rome.Emphasizing the significance of the Holy Spirit in the life of a Christian, the Holy Father noted that it is the third person of the Blessed Trinity who anoints, heals, and strengthens followers of Jesus to "open borders" in hearts, in relationships with others, and between nations. "Let us invoke the Spirit of love and peace, that he may open borders, break down walls, dispel hatred and help us to live as children of our one Father who is in heaven," the pope said on a...
Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful at a Pentecost prayer vigil in St. Peter's Square, Saturday, June 7, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNACNA Newsroom, Jun 7, 2025 / 17:43 pm (CNA).Follow our live coverage of the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV, first U.S.-born pope in history.
Pope Leo XIV greets participants of the symposium "Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millennium: Towards Catholic-Orthodox Unity" in Rome, Saturday, June 7, 2025 / Credit: Vatican MediaCNA Staff, Jun 7, 2025 / 11:45 am (CNA).Pope Leo XIV on Saturday said the Catholic Church is open to establishing a common date of Easter among all Christian churches, echoing one of the aims of the Council of Nicaea that met 1,700 years ago. The pope spoke to participants of the symposium "Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millennium: Towards Catholic-Orthodox Unity," which took place this week at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome.Pope Leo XIV greets participants of the symposium "Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millennium: Towards Catholic-Orthodox Unity" in Rome, Saturday, June 7, 2025. Credit: Vatican MediaThe Holy Father called the 325 Council of Nicaea "foundational for the common journey that Catholics and Orthodox have undertaken together since the Second...
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat speaks to "EWTN News in Depth" Anchor Catherine Hadro on Friday, June 6, 2025 / Credit: EWTN NewsCNA Staff, Jun 7, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).Americans could be on the cusp of a religious revival. according to Ross Douthat, an author, Catholic convert, and New York Times columnist. Douthat, who often writes on the intersection of faith, culture, and public life in his column, shared his thoughts on all things American and Catholic, from Pope Leo XIV to Vice President JD Vance to the American religious landscape, in an interview with Anchor Catherine Hadro on "EWTN News in Depth" on Friday.Douthat described the U.S. religious situation as a "a very unsettled but curious landscape," particularly after a years-long decline in religious interest that plateaued during the COVID-19 pandemic."It's not that America is having a religious revival. It's more that we're considering whether to have a religious revival," he said.Interest in rel...
Pastor Rick Warren speaks to EWTN Vatican Bureau Chief Andreas Thonhauser on "EWTN News Nightly," Friday, June 6, 2025 / Credit: EWTN NewsCNA Staff, Jun 7, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA).Evangelical pastor Rick Warren this week said the upcoming 2,000th anniversary of the death and resurrection of Jesus highlights the Lord's "unanswered prayer" of unity in the Christian world, a unity which he said will help bring the message of salvation to the world. Warren, the founder of the Baptist Saddleback Church in California, spoke to EWTN Vatican Bureau Chief Andreas Thonhauser in Rome on attending a gathering of Global 2033, a Catholic evangelization initiative working to spread the Gospel message ahead of the two-thousand-year observance of Christ rising from the dead. Asked by Thonhauser why he was speaking at a Catholic event, the Protestant minister claimed that "no single denomination can complete the Great Commission on their own." "There are 2.5 billion people in the world w...
Lois McClatchie Miller and Chris Elston were arrested by Belgian police this week while advocating for child protection from transgender medical treatments, June 5, 2025. / ADF InternationalCNA Staff, Jun 7, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA).Police in Brussels arrested pro-life activist Lois McLatchie Miller and child protection advocate Chris Elston on Wednesday for peacefully displaying signs that advocated for the protection of children against transgender medical treatments. The incident occurred when Miller, a Scottish senior legal communications officer with ADF International, and Elston, a Canadian pro-child activist known as "Billboard Chris", were surrounded by an angry mob as they held signs that read: "Children are never born in the wrong body" and "Children cannot consent to puberty blockers." The pair were in the EU capital engaging members of the European Parliament about the dangers of puberty blockers for children. Belgian police arrested the duo amid the non...
Sam Brownback. / Credit: Albert H. Teich/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Jun 7, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).In a recent interview with the Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe), former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback discussed how Christian organizations are increasingly being deplatformed and debanked when engaging in public debate and offered ways to address these challenges and uphold religious freedom. "The typical technique in the West is a suffocation technique on religion," Brownback told OIDAC Europe Executive Director Anja Hoffmann in an interview released June 4. OIDAC Europe is a nongovernmental organization that researches, analyzes, documents, and reports on cases of intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe. According to Brownback, examples of this technique include pro-life pregnancy centers being dropped by their insurance companies and o...
