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The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. / Credit: fotogoocom via Wikimedia (CC BY 3.0)Vilnius, Lithuania, Dec 18, 2025 / 14:04 pm (CNA).The European Parliament voted Dec. 17 in favor of a resolution supporting the creation of a new European Union fund intended to expand access to abortion services across member states, a move that exposed deep divisions among lawmakers and renewed debate over national sovereignty and abortion legislation in EU policymaking.Members of the European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg voted 358 in favor, 202 against, with 79 abstentions. The proposal would establish a voluntary, opt-in financial mechanism to assist women who are unable to procure abortions in their home countries and who choose to travel to states with more permissive laws.The initiative was brought forward under the EU's European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) framework by the campaign group My Voice, My Choice, which claims to represent a broad grassroots mobilization of Europea...
Disabilities advocates in Buffalo, New York, during a candlelight vigil in opposition to assisted suicide. / Credit: New York Alliance Against Assisted SuicideCNA Staff, Dec 17, 2025 / 17:00 pm (CNA).New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign into law an assisted suicide bill that Catholic leaders have ardently opposed, making New York the 13th state to allow the practice. Hochul, who called it an "incredibly difficult decision," said she will sign the bill after lawmakers add some "guardrails." The bill allows doctors to give terminally ill patients drugs to end their lives. Hochul's additions to the law include requiring a waiting period, a recorded oral request for death, and a health evaluation. The law will go into effect six months after signing. Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and other New York bishops have been outspoken against the legislation, issuing several statements opposing it. In a brief meeting with Hochul over the summer, Dolan urged ...
This image is preserved in the Church of San Vital, built in 386, in Rome. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN NewsRome Newsroom, Dec 17, 2025 / 17:30 pm (CNA).The Church of St. Vitale, built in 386, is the oldest Christian church still standing in the center of Rome. It is the "only place of worship from the fourth century that has remained intact throughout the centuries," emphasized its parish priest, Father Elio Lops.This early Christian church, discreet and given little attention on typical tourist routes, safeguards an artistic and devotional treasure that is practically unknown: the first image of Our Lady of Guadalupe painted in the Italian capital."It has never been given the importance it deserves," Lops told ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner, referring to a representation of the Virgin Mary that immediately brings to mind the image imprinted on St. Juan Diego's tilma in 1531.The similarities are striking. "There is no doubt about its identity," the parish p...
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (at right) is shown here during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (at left) and then National Security Advisor Mike Waltz (at center). / Credit: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsCNA Staff, Dec 17, 2025 / 20:05 pm (CNA).U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that he has issued a directive aimed at reforming the military's Chaplain Corps, beginning with the elimination of the U.S. Army's current Spiritual Fitness Guide.In a video post, Hegseth described a "real problem" facing the nation's military forces: "the weakening of our Chaplain corps" that has "been going on for far too long.""In an atmosphere of political correctness and secular humanism, chaplains have been minimized, viewed by many as therapists. instead of ministers," he said. "Faith and virtue were traded for self help and self care."Hegseth said that "chaplains are intended to be the spiritual and moral backbone of our nation's forces," r...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, (pictured on Nov. 25, 2025, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan at a Catholic Charities Thanksgiving event to hand out turkeys and other foods), said she will sign a bill legalizing assisted suicide in the Empire State. / Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesCNA Staff, Dec 17, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA).New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an assisted suicide bill that Catholic leaders have ardently opposed, making New York the 13th state to allow the practice. Hochul, who called it an "incredibly difficult decision," said she will sign the bill after lawmakers add some "guardrails." The bill allows doctors to give terminally ill patients drugs to end their lives. Hochul's additions to the law include requiring a waiting period, a recorded oral request for death, and a health evaluation. The law will go into effect six months after signing. Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and other New York bishops have been outspoken against the...
San Diego Auxiliary Bishop Ramón Bejarano celebrates Mass at St. Augustine's School on Dec. 5, 2021, to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe. / Credit: John Gastaldo/Catholic Diocese of San DiegoVatican City, Dec 17, 2025 / 10:18 am (CNA).Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Ramón Bejarano, currently auxiliary bishop of San Diego, as the next bishop of Monterey in California. The appointment was publicized on Dec. 17 by the Holy See Press Office at the Vatican and by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.Bejarano succeeds Bishop Daniel E. Garcia, who led Monterey before being appointed bishop of Austin, Texas, on July 2 and installed there on Sept. 18.Bejarano was born July 17, 1969, in Laredo, Texas, and completed ecclesiastical studies at the diocesan seminary in Tijuana, Mexico, and at Mount Angel Seminary in Oregon, the Vatican said. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Stockton on Aug. 15, 1998.Named titular bishop of Carpi and auxiliary bishop of Sa...
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