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Pope Leo XIV meets with priests of Rome in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall on Thursday, June 12, 2025. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Jun 12, 2025 / 09:22 am (CNA).The priests of Rome met for the first time on Thursday with their new bishop, Pope Leo XIV, to whom they are looking for greater leadership and fatherly care after several years of administrative disruption."We are very hopeful; you perceive a lot of enthusiasm, anyway, whether from brother priests or from the people of God," the 32-year-old newly ordained Father Simone Troilo told CNA this month. "The fact that he even set this meeting [with priests] as a priority a little more than a month after his election … is a very important sign as well."The pope is not only the head of the universal Catholic Church, but he is also the bishop of the Diocese of Rome, though he does not manage the diocese like a typical diocesan bishop. A cardinal vicar general, vice regent (deputy), and auxiliary bishops are responsible for t...
Catholic school students won the right to play sports and participate in other public school activities in the State College Area School District after a victory in federal court on June 10, 2025. / Credit: matimix/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Jun 12, 2025 / 10:59 am (CNA).Catholic families in Pennsylvania won a victory at federal court this week when a local school district agreed to allow students of parochial schools to participate in district sporting events and other activities.The Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm based in Chicago, said in a press release that multiple Catholic families had won the "major victory" in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania after bringing the suit in July 2023.The State College Area School District had originally said that parochial school students were not allowed to participate in district extracurricular activities, though it allowed home-schooled and charter school students to take part in those events.The C...
Migrants walk alongside the railroad tracks after dismounting from the "La Bestia" train, which they rode through Mexico to reach the Mexico-U.S. border near Chihuahua, Mexico. / Credit: David Peinado Romero/ShutterstockPuebla, Mexico, Jun 11, 2025 / 17:44 pm (CNA).The Catholic bishops of neighboring Mexico are reacting to the wave of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids that are provoking riots in various cities.In a June 10 statement, the Mexican Bishops' Conference expressed its concern about "the difficult situation that has arisen" as a result of the enforcement operations, saying that, although no one desires the presence of criminals, "it is necessary to distinguish that, although some undocumented migrants commit criminal acts, not all undocumented migrants are criminals." They affirmed that most undocumented migrants "contribute to the good of the communities in which they live and work" and emphasized that this distinction "makes it possible to ov...
Blackrock College in Dublin, Ireland, where extensive abuse took place over decades, according to a documentary that led to the June 2025 report by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland. / Credit: Sarah777, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 11, 2025 / 18:18 pm (CNA).Allegations of sexual abuse of minors within the Catholic Church in Ireland significantly spiked this past year, a newly published report has found.The total number of allegations rose by more than 50% from 252 in 2023-2024 to 385 in 2024-2025, according to the latest report by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland. The figure represents the highest number since the organization began publishing annual reports on child sexual abuse in the Irish Church in 2009. The majority of these allegations, 73%, date to the period between 1960 and 1989, with only two cases relating to the period after 2000...
Bishop Wilhelm Krautwaschl, the bishop of Graz-Seckau in Austria, expressed being "stunned and shaken" following a deadly shooting at a school in Graz on June 10, 2025. / Credit: Screenshot / YouTube / Katholische Kirche SteiermarkCNA Deutsch, Jun 11, 2025 / 13:01 pm (CNA).The bishop of Graz-Seckau in Austria, Wilhelm Krautwaschl, expressed being "stunned and shaken" following a deadly shooting at a school in Graz that claimed 10 lives. On Tuesday, a 21-year-old former student of the Bundes-Oberstufenrealgymnasium Dreischützengasse killed nine people before taking his own life."This horrific act at a school in Graz leaves us stunned and shaken," said Krautwaschl, speaking on behalf of himself and Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Freitag. "Our deepest sympathy goes out to the students, the teaching staff, and the families. We accompany all of them with our prayers and are here to support everyone affected to the best of our ability. At the same time, we thank all those who are off...
Pope Leo XIV meets with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on June 11, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Jun 11, 2025 / 13:57 pm (CNA).Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday received U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in an audience held in the study of the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican.Guterres subsequently met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state of the Holy See, and Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, secretary for relations with states and international organizations.Although the Vatican did not provide details about the private meeting with the pontiff, it indicated that during the conversation with the Secretariat of State the Holy See's support for the United Nations' commitment to world peace was expressed.Some ongoing processes and upcoming summits organized by the United Nations were also discussed as well as the difficulties the organization faces in addressing current crises around the world.During the course of the conversation, speci...
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 ...
