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Homilies across U.S. take stock of Charlie Kirk assassination

By Madalaine Elhabbal Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 16, 2025 / 18:24 pm Catholic priests around the country have discussed the assassination of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk during their homilies in the last week. Kirk, 31, was shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. The alleged shooter …
Parents of Annunciation shooting victim say daughter’s progress is a ‘miracle’

By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Sep 16, 2025 / 16:14 pm Less than three weeks after the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minnesota that killed two children and injured 21 during Mass, the parents of a 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head say her progress has been “miraculous.” When …
Mass attendance up at various colleges in wake of Charlie Kirk assassination

By Amira Abuzeid CNA Staff, Sep 15, 2025 / 17:31 pm In what some are calling “the Charlie Kirk effect,” people across the nation, including many college students who are not ordinarily churchgoers, have decided to go to church since the assassination last week of the conservative Christian political activist Charlie …
Pope Leo XIV marks 70th birthday at Sunday Angelus: ‘I give thanks to the Lord and to my parents’

By Victoria Cardiel Vatican City, Sep 14, 2025 / 09:55 am On Sunday, his 70th birthday, Pope Leo XIV presided at the recitation of the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square. From the early morning hours, the square had filled up with the faithful carrying banners, flags, and congratulatory signs …
New film on St. Maximilian Kolbe’s final days highlights hope amid darkness

By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Sep 12, 2025 / 06:00 am A new film called “Triumph of the Heart” depicts St. Maximilian Kolbe’s last days on earth in a starvation bunker in the German death camp of Auschwitz. The film will be released in theaters on Sept. 12. St. Maximilian …
Seton Shrine to celebrate 50 years of America’s first native-born saint

By Tessa Gervasini Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 9, 2025 / 08:00 am This week the National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton will welcome hundreds of people to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the canonization of the first American-born saint and to recognize the 87 American Catholics on the path to sainthood now. …
Cardinal Burke to celebrate Traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica

By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Sep 9, 2025 / 11:00 am Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a special Traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 25 in a return to a prior custom, suspended since 2022, of an annual pilgrimage of Catholics devoted to the Latin Mass. Burke will …
Trump launches ‘America Prays’ initiative to prepare for nation’s 250th anniversary

By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 9, 2025 / 06:00 am President Donald Trump launched an initiative that urges Americans to pray for the country and its citizens in preparation for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026. The initiative, called “America Prays,” urges Americans to dedicate …
Fr. Faltas on Gaza: ‘It’s truly an inhumane situation’

During a visit to Italy, Franciscan friar Ibrahim Faltas illustrates the terrible situation the people of the Holy Land region are living in, and warns that if things continue as they are, “there will truly be no Christians left.” By Kielce Gussie “The situation in Gaza is terrible”, Fr. Ibrahim …
Trump immigration policies spark fear and faith at Spanish Catholic Masses

By Amira Abuzeid CNA Staff, Sep 5, 2025 / 05:00 am The many changes to immigration enforcement policies introduced by the Trump administration since the president’s inauguration in January has led what some Catholic dioceses are calling “terror” to take hold of Spanish-speaking parishioners throughout the United States. CNA asked dioceses …