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Bishop Robert Barron spoke on political commentator Tucker Carlson's show on June 2, 2025. / Credit: CNA/EWTN NewsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 4, 2025 / 16:29 pm (CNA).Bishop Robert Barron sat down with conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson this week to talk about the Catholic faith and discuss some hot cultural topics. Carlson, an Episcopalian, began the June 2 interview by saying that his friends urged him to have Barron on his show. "I don't think I've ever received more texts about any guest than I did about you," Tucker told Barron. "From Catholics I know, from non-Catholics I know." Barron, founder of Word on Fire Catholic ministries and bishop of the Winona-Rochester Diocese in Minnesota, and Carlson discussed a wide range of subjects, including how to find happiness, prayer, grace, persecution, technology, and the future of the Church.Finding happinessThe interview began with a discussion about happiness. Carlson cited falling birth rates an...
null / Credit: Orhan Cam/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Jun 4, 2025 / 16:59 pm (CNA).The Trump administration on Tuesday nixed a Biden-era requirement that forced emergency room doctors to perform abortions. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, announced on June 3 that it would rescind the July 2022 guidelines issued under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).That law, originally passed in 1986, was designed to prevent "patient dumping" by requiring Medicare-participating hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment to patients who can't pay for treatment rather than transferring them. The Biden administration expanded the requirements in the wake of the repeal of Roe v. Wade, requiring hospitals to perform abortions as "stabilizing treatment" in emergency situations. The government will "continue to enforce" EMTALA "including for identified emergency medical conditions that...
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at St. Peter's Square on Sunday, June 1, 2025 for the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 4, 2025 / 17:06 pm (CNA).Pope Leo XIV spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call Wednesday afternoon."The pope made an appeal for Russia to take a gesture that would favor peace, emphasizing the importance of dialogue to create positive contacts between the parties and seek solutions to the conflict," Holy See Press Office Director Matteo Bruni said in a statement.Bruni told members of the press that the Holy Father appealed to the Russian leader about the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and advocated for the facilitation of aid into affected areas.The two leaders also discussed Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi's efforts to facilitate prisoner exchanges. "Pope Leo made reference to Patriarch Kirill, thanking him for the congratulations received at the beginning...
The J. Edgar Hoover FBI headquarters building in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 4, 2025 / 17:35 pm (CNA).A report from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee revealed that the 2023 anti-Catholic Richmond FBI memo involved coordination with field offices around the country and that similar disparaging language about certain Catholics was found in at least 13 separate documents.In February 2023, the FBI retracted a memo from the Richmond, Virginia, field office that detailed an investigation into so-called "radical traditionalist" Catholics after the internal document was leaked to the public and prompted heavy pushback.The memo called for the FBI to develop sources within parishes that offer the Latin Mass and online Catholic communities for the purpose of "threat mitigation." Relying almost entirely on designations from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the memo expressed concerns about a pote...
Pope Leo XIV gives a blessing to memebers of the National Italian American Foundation in their meeting on June 4, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Jun 4, 2025 / 11:34 am (CNA).Pope Leo XIV met with the National Italian American Foundation on Wednesday and blessed their work in continuing the spiritual and cultural legacy of their ancestors.Before holding his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father met with board members of the leading Italian American foundation and thanked them for their various initiatives in the U.S. and Italy."Your work to continue to educate young people regarding Italian culture and history as well as providing scholarships and other charitable assistance in both countries helps to maintain a mutually beneficial and concrete connection between the two nations," Pope Leo said at the morning meeting.The foundation, which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary, provides $1.5 million each year in educational...
A New Jersey former parish bookkeeper has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from two parishes, June 3, 2025. / Credit: Zack McCarthy via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)CNA Staff, Jun 4, 2025 / 13:21 pm (CNA).A former parish employee in New Jersey has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from two parishes several months after she was accused of the thefts. Former bookkeeper Melissa Rivera admitted to taking $292,728 from parishes in Washington Township and Pompton Plains, the Morris County prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.The two parishes were Our Lady of the Mountain and Our Lady of Good Counsel, both located in Morris County. Rivera was charged with multiple counts of theft and forgery after being accused earlier this year of writing herself more than 100 checks from parish accounts between May 2018 and May 2024. The state said it would recommend probation for Rivera, 60, though she would have to serve 364 days in the Morris County Correctional Center...
null / Credit: PIGAMA/ShutterstockNational Catholic Register, Jun 4, 2025 / 09:39 am (CNA).The bishop of Charlotte, North Carolina, has delayed his plan to restrict the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) in his diocese, pushing the date back by nearly three months after a week and a half of significant backlash in North Carolina and beyond.Bishop Michael Martin has determined that a plan to restrict the TLM from four parish churches to a single, designated chapel will now go into effect on Oct. 2, according to a June 3 story from the Catholic News Herald, the diocese's official newspaper. The Charlotte bishop had previously announced on May 23 that the restrictions would go into effect on July 8. The Herald reported that Martin made the change after accepting a request from the priests of the parishes where the TLM is currently celebrated to delay the restrictions, which he said he had originally scheduled to coincide with changes in diocesan assignments."It made sense to start ...
Pope Leo XIV blesses a small attendee at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on Wednesday, June 4. 2025. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Jun 4, 2025 / 10:09 am (CNA).Pope Leo XIV held the third general audience of his pontificate on Wednesday, telling the faithful that even when we feel useless and inadequate, "the Lord reminds us that our life is worthy.""Even when it seems we are able to do little in life, it is always worthwhile. There is always the possibility to find meaning, because God loves our life," Leo said in a sunny St. Peter's Square on June 4, four days before the one-month mark of his pontificate.Pope Leo XIV poses with visitors at the general audience in St. Peter's Square on Wednesday, June 4. 2025. Credit: Vatican MediaIn his catechesis, the pope reflected on the parable of the vineyard workers, which is recounted in the Gospel of Matthew 20:1-16. Leo affirmed that, like the owner of the vineyard, Jesus "does not establish rankings, he gives all o...
Sister Angela Musolesi served as an assistant to renowned exorcist priest Gabriel Amorth for 28 years. / Credit: Nicolás de Cárdenas/ACI PrensaMadrid, Spain, Jun 4, 2025 / 10:47 am (CNA).Sister Angela Musolesi was born in the small Italian town of Budrio on Dec. 8, 1954, the centennial year of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.A Franciscan nun, Sister Angela collaborated for 28 years with the renowned Italian priest and exorcist Father Gabriel Amorth. To expand the legacy of Amorth, who died on Sept. 16, 2016, in Rome at the age of 91, she founded the Children of Light association.San Pablo Publishing has just published Sister Angela's Spanish-langauge book "You Are My Ruin," a volume that explains the causes of demonic possession and offers effective tools for confronting the actions of the devil.Sister Angela does this with particular reference to the family, a field in which Our Lady of Fátima prophesied that the devil's final battle against God and ...
The Illinois state capitol in Springfield, where assisted suicide legislation stalled after passing in the House on May 29, 2025. / Credit: E Fehrenbacher/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Jun 3, 2025 / 16:20 pm (CNA).A bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Illinois was not called for a vote in the Senate before the Legislature adjourned on June 1, effectively halting its progress for the session amid ardent opposition from leading Catholic voices in the state.The bill, which passed in the House at the end of May, would have made it legal for physicians to give "qualified" terminally ill patients life-ending drugs. As the bill failed to move through the General Assembly, physican-asisted suicide remains criminal in Illinois.Physician-assisted suicide, called medical aid in dying or "MAID" by proponents, is legal in 10 states as well as the nation's capital. Oregon was the first to legalize the practice in 1994, though an injunction delayed its implementation until 1997.Under the ...
