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Texas boys school establishes policy to destroy smartphones

By Amira Abuzeid Houston, Texas, Oct 4, 2025 / 06:00 am After years of boys (and their parents) repeatedly ignoring the rules, a private boys school in Houston is taking a novel approach to its smartphone and digital device policy: Bring it to school, and “we will destroy it.” Western Academy, …
Seminary administrators weigh in on downward trends

By Madalaine Elhabbal Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 3, 2025 / 13:35 pm Seminaries and their formators are beginning to rethink what formation should look like in the U.S. following reports that enrollment at graduate-level seminaries is continuing to decline. The fall 2025 CARA report released by the Center for Applied Research in the …
Relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux begin U.S. tour at basilica named in her honor

By Martin Barillas Ann Arbor, Michigan, Oct 2, 2025 / 17:02 pm The faithful are gathering in Michigan, where the relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux are on display at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak, near Detroit. A Mass of installation was celebrated on Oct. 1 by …
How to pray the St. Thérèse of Lisieux novena

By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Oct 1, 2025 / 05:00 am The Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, also known as the Little Flower, on Oct. 1. Born to Zelie and Louis Martin in 1873 — both canonized saints — Thérèse was the youngest of five siblings. …
Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking to block $5 million state grant to Catholic trade school

By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Sep 30, 2025 / 12:56 pm A West Virginia circuit court judge has tossed out a lawsuit aiming to block a state government agency from providing a $5 million grant to an Ohio Catholic trade school. Judge Richard Lindsay said in the Sept. 25 ruling that the seven-figure …
Pope Leo XIV restores custom of Christmas Day Mass

By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Sep 30, 2025 / 12:26 pm Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day morning, Dec. 25 — a custom dating to the pontificate of St. John Paul II. The Vatican announced Tuesday Pope Leo’s Mass schedule for Nov. 1 through …
Shooting at LDS church in Michigan prompts Catholic solidarity, prayers

By Amira Abuzeid CNA Staff, Sep 29, 2025 / 21:45 pm Multiple U.S. Catholic bishops offered prayers and expressed their solidarity after a gunman attacked a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) chapel in Grand Blanc, Michigan, on Sept. 28, killing four people, injuring eight, and setting the building on …
Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael: The 3 great archangels of the Bible

By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Sep 29, 2025 / 04:00 am Many Catholics can, at the drop of a hat, recite the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel — the famous petition to that venerable saint to “defend us in battle” and “cast into hell Satan.” In the culture of the …
Pope Leo XIV appoints new personal secretary

By Marco Mancini Vatican City, Sep 27, 2025 / 13:30 pm Bishop Giovanni Paccosi of San Miniato announced Sept. 27 that Pope Leo XIV has named Father Marco Billeri, a priest of the Italian diocese, as his second personal secretary. Father Billeri, ordained in 2016, continued his studies in Rome where …
Vatican struggles against spread of ‘deepfake’ images of Pope Leo XIV

By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Sep 25, 2025 / 09:57 am Did you hear what Pope Leo XIV said about Charlie Kirk or President Donald Trump? What about his thoughts on the Rapture or whether it’s OK to be cremated? These are just a few of the topics the pontiff has …