Trump, Vance, other U.S. leaders celebrate first American pope
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"What a great honor for our country," President Trump said of the election of the Catholic Church's new Chicago-born pope on May 8, 2025. / Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 8, 2025 / 16:32 pm (CNA).U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, along with scores of other elected officials throughout the country have expressed joy and excitement over the selection of the first American pope.
"What a great honor for our country," President Trump said of the election of the Catholic Church's new Chicago-born pope on May 8, 2025. / Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 8, 2025 / 16:32 pm (CNA).
U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, along with scores of other elected officials throughout the country have expressed joy and excitement over the selection of the first American pope.
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Gunmen on motorbikes reportedly shot dead at least 22 people at a baptism ceremony in an attack on a village in western Niger. The Sept. 15, 2025, attack happened in the Tillaberi region near Burkina Faso and Mali, where jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group are active. / Credit: Sabrine Amoka/ShutterstockACI Africa, Sep 18, 2025 / 11:54 am (CNA).Gunmen on motorbikes have reportedly shot dead at least 22 people celebrating a baptism in an attack on a village in western Niger.Multiple media reports indicate that the Sept. 15 attack happened in the Tillaberi region near Burkina Faso and Mali, where jihadist groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group (IS) are active.In a Sept. 17 BBC News report, a resident told the French news agency AFP that the attackers killed 15 people at the baptism ceremony before moving on and killing seven others."Once more, the Tillabéri region, in the department of Ouallam, village of Takoubatt, has been struck by bar...
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Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA and a vocal evangelical Christian who was assassinated on Sept. 10, 2025, speaking at an event in Texas in 2018. / Credit: Carrington Tatum/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 18, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray announced he is seeking the death penalty for Tyler Robinson, the man charged with murdering Christian conservative activist Charlie Kirk."I am filing a notice of intent to seek the death penalty," Gray said in a Sept. 16 news conference. "I do not take this decision lightly, and it is a decision I have made independently as county attorney based solely on the available evidence and circumstances and nature of the crime."Robinson is charged with seven crimes, the most serious of which is aggravated murder. Utah's criminal code has two forms of intentional homicide: "murder" and the more serious "aggravated murder."The maximum sentence for murder is life in prison, but an aggravated murder charge ...
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Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for his weekly general audience on Sept. 17, 2025, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican MediaCNA Staff, Sep 18, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).Pope Leo XIV downplayed concerns of the ongoing financial crisis at the Vatican in a recent interview, arguing that "things are going to be OK" regarding the Holy See's finances even as more work is needed. The Holy Father made the remarks as part of a wide-ranging interview with Crux senior correspondent Elise Ann Allen. The interview appears in Allen's biography on the pontiff, "Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the 21st Century," published in Spanish on Sept. 18. An English version of the book will be published in early 2026. Allen asked Leo about the financial situation of the Vatican, noting that the pope has previously indicated that the crisis is "not as bad as it's sometimes been made out to be." The Holy See's pension fund has been facing a major shortfall af...
