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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 ...
A victims' advocacy group is pressuring New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to force insurers to pay abuse claims. / Credit: lev radin/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Jun 3, 2025 / 15:50 pm (CNA).A victim advocacy group launched an ad campaign urging New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to force insurance companies to pay millions of dollars in abuse claims, slamming the governor for allegedly "stand[ing] with her big insurance buddies" instead of abuse victims.The Coalition for Just and Compassionate Compensation, which started in 2023 to pressure insurance companies to pay abuse claims under the state's Child Victims Act, began running ads in upstate New York markets this week."Who turns their back on over 14,000 survivors of child sex abuse? Gov. Kathy Hochul," an ad states, claiming the Democratic governor "stands with her big insurance buddies [who are] denying responsibility while donating to her campaign."The ad features headlines from news stories of abuse scandals, including one that references t...
Professor Robert P. George speaks at the Heritage Foundation event commemorating the 100th anniversary of Pierce v. Society of Sisters on May 30, 2025. / Credit: Ronald WaltersWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 3, 2025 / 11:01 am (CNA).June 1 marked the 100th anniversary of Pierce v. Society of Sisters, the landmark Supreme Court case that preserved Catholic education in America and established the foundation for present-day legal discourse on parental rights and school choice.Decided on June 1, 1925, Pierce v. Society of Sisters blocked a proposed amendment to an Oregon statute that would have eliminated the rights of parents to enroll their children in private schools. The amendment, challenged by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, who ran parochial schools in Oregon, primarily targeted those schools and was notably backed by organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan.The court's natural-law based opinion, written by Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds, famously st...
Pope Leo XIV exits the Sistine Chapel following a June 2, 2025, ceremony commemorating the life and legacy of Blessed Iuliu Hossu. / Credit: Vatican MediaACI Prensa Staff, Jun 2, 2025 / 17:37 pm (CNA).Pope Leo XIV recalled the life and legacy of Cardinal in Pectore Iuliu Hossu, a Romanian Greek Catholic bishop, "pastor and martyr of the faith during the communist persecution in Romania," who was commemorated Monday in the Vatican and who saved thousands of Jews from death during World War II."We have gathered today in the Sistine Chapel to commemorate, in the jubilee year dedicated to hope, an apostle of hope: Blessed Cardinal Iuliu Hossu, Greek Catholic bishop of Cluj-Gherla," said the Holy Father at the beginning of his address at the commemoration ceremony for the cardinal, who died 55 years ago on May 28, 1970."Today," Pope Leo continued, "he enters this chapel after St. Paul VI, on April 28, 1969, named him cardinal in pectore (in secret) while he was in prison for his fid...
Cardinal Francis Leo of Toronto was created a cardinal by Pope Francis during the consistory at St. Peter's Basilica on Dec. 7, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 2, 2025 / 18:07 pm (CNA).Archbishop of Toronto Cardinal Francis Leo called on the faithful to honor the most Sacred Heart of Jesus throughout the month of June rather than "using symbols that are contrary to God's divine revelation." "This year the solemnity of the Sacred Heart is commemorated on June 27, though the entire month is dedicated to this long-standing and much appreciated devotion in the Church," Leo said in a statement. The month of June is a time to reflect on Jesus' "loving, burning, sacrificial, and life-giving heart," which Leo called "one of the most profound and enduring symbols in Catholic devotional life."For Catholics, symbols "help us to deepen our faith and shape our prayer life, not to mention the lives we lead and the choices we make," the cardinal said....
