The encounter in Indianapolis will feature opening remarks by Pope Leo XIV, youth representatives, and a live Q&A. / Credit: EWTN NewsCNA Staff, Nov 21, 2025 / 09:10 am (CNA).The 2025 National Catholic Youth Conference will feature prayer, community, evangelization, and service among Catholic teenagers from Nov. 20–22 in Indianapolis. Follow CNA's live coverage of the event here.Watch the historic discussion with Pope Leo XIV live from the Vatican now on EWTN YouTube:
The encounter in Indianapolis will feature opening remarks by Pope Leo XIV, youth representatives, and a live Q&A. / Credit: EWTN News
CNA Staff, Nov 21, 2025 / 09:10 am (CNA).
The 2025 National Catholic Youth Conference will feature prayer, community, evangelization, and service among Catholic teenagers from Nov. 20–22 in Indianapolis. Follow CNA's live coverage of the event here.
Watch the historic discussion with Pope Leo XIV live from the Vatican now on EWTN YouTube:
The ordination of Jonathan Goodall (former Anglican bishop) to the Catholic priesthood in Westminster Cathedral, London, March 12, 2022. / Credit: Mazur/CBCEW.org.ukLondon, England, Nov 21, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).A new report reveals that significant numbers of Anglican clergy have converted to Catholicism in the United Kingdom since 1992.The report, "Convert Clergy in the Catholic Church in Britain," released Nov. 20, shows that approximately 700 clergy and religious of the Church of England, Church in Wales, and Scottish Episcopal Church have been received into the Catholic Church since 1992. The number includes 16 former Anglican bishops. This equates to approximately a third of all Catholic priests ordained in England and Wales during this period.Speaking to CNA, co-author Stephen Bullivant, professor of theology and the sociology of religion at St. Mary's Catholic University, London, said he was "really quite surprised" by the high numbers, "especially the [convert] ordinat...
The city of Tyre, in southern Lebanon, has been bombed several times by the Israeli armed forces. / Credit: ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, Nov 21, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).The upcoming visit of Pope Leo XIV to Lebanon, scheduled for Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, comes as a new wave of Israeli bombings have shaken several towns near the southern border."We have been experiencing continuous attacks like this for almost two and a half years. But we have never evacuated, we have never left our village," said Maronite parish priest Father Tony Elias from the border village of Rmeich, a Christian village located just a few meters from Israel.Rmeich, he explained, is one of the largest Christian villages in southern Lebanon. "We cannot leave, because if we did, there would be no one to rebuild, no one to protect our village," he said in an interview with ACI Prensa, CNA's Spanish-language news partner.The situation in neighboring villages confirms his fears: "The villages to the right and left are c...
Lucy Snipes, Anne Young, and Presley Hilderbrand from Columbus, Georgia tour exhibits during the first night of NCYC 2025 on Nov. 20, 2025, at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. / Credit: Tessa Gervasini / CNAIndianapolis, Indiana, Nov 21, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).Teenagers piled into the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium on Thursday in Indianapolis to start the 2025 National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC). Young Catholics from across the country have traveled to Indianapolis to take part in NCYC for three days of prayer, community, evangelization, catechesis, and service. The 2025 theme is "I Am," and the conference mission is for participants to encounter Christ and form discipleship. On the evening of Nov. 20 exhibits opened to help students gain a deeper understanding of the sacraments and to encourage them to interact with one another. Teens with themed hats packed into the convention center and began to exchange the caps as a way to meet...