By Amira Abuzeid CNA Staff, Nov 25, 2025 / 13:18 pm Social media lit up last week with claims that Pope Leo XIV “threw a rave” outside St. Elisabeth Cathedral in Košice, Slovakia. The viral stories included images of laser lights, electronic dance music, and a priest serving as DJ. But …

By Amira Abuzeid CNA Staff, Nov 13, 2025 / 07:00 am According to a new survey, engagement among U.S. adults who identify as Catholic is strong, especially among the youngest adults, and there is growing trust in the Church after the fallout of the clergy sexual abuse crisis of the early …

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, …

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 …

By Amira Abuzeid CNA Staff, Sep 17, 2025 / 07:00 am A new Lifeway Research study reveals that a slim majority of Americans believe it is morally acceptable for terminally ill individuals to request physician-assisted suicide, while more believe physicians should be allowed to help patients who want to end their …

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 …

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 …

By Amira Abuzeid CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2025 / 19:14 pm Frank Caprio, who served as a Providence, Rhode Island, municipal court judge for nearly 40 years and came to be known as “America’s nicest judge,” passed away on Aug. 20 from pancreatic cancer. “Beloved for his compassion, humility, and unwavering …

By Amira Abuzeid Houston, Texas, Aug 4, 2025 / 06:00 am One month has passed since some of the deadliest and most destructive flooding in the state’s history took at least 136 lives in the Texas Hill Country over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Of the confirmed dead, 108 were in Kerr …

By Amira Abuzeid CNA Staff, Jul 23, 2025 / 18:17 pm The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a sweeping reform initiative of the nation’s organ transplant system after a four-year investigation by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) uncovered systemic ethical and safety violations. The …