Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for more than 1 million young pilgrims at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, in Rome's outskirts, on Aug. 3, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Sep 1, 2025 / 11:05 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV expressed his condolences for the more than 800 dead left by the earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan on Sunday night, with a magnitude of 6 on the Richter scale, also causing widespread destruction. According to local authorities, more than 800 people died and...| Catholic World Report
In my journey toward the Catholic Church, the Sacred Scriptures had been my daily companion and guide. I had been reading the Psalms each morning when I received the gift of healing from an eating [...]| Catholic World Report
Members of St. Francis' Work for the Poor, wearing t-shirts with the phrase “a helping hand to man every day,” with the Holy Father in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Sep 1, 2025 / 09:47 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Monday welcomed members of the Opera San Francesco per i Poveri ("St. Francis' Work for the Poor") to the Vatican, thanking the society for their witness of charity according to the Franciscan tradition. “When you see a poor person,”...| Catholic World Report
null / Credit: GBALLGIGGSPHOTO/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Sep 1, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). A recent study found that the rate of mental-health-related hospitalizations doubled for women who had abortions compared with women who gave birth. The s... [...]| Catholic World Report
Carlo Acutis Catholic High School in Blantyre, Malawi, opened in 2022 with just 90 students and has since grown to accommodate 300, with boarding facilities for girls and a dedicated computer lab. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Carlo Acutis Catholi... [...]| Catholic World Report
Father James Martin, SJ. / Credit: Flickr by Shawn (CC BY-NC 2.0) Vatican City, Sep 1, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV met in a private audience with Father James Martin, S.J., at the Vatican on Monday.Martin, who is in Rome to lead a Jubil... [...]| Catholic World Report
Social doctrine and labor unions In 1891, Pope Leo XIII wrote in Rerum Novarum that a worker’s wages should support the worker and his family. His understanding of marriage and family—which together form the nucleus [...]| Catholic World Report
null / Credit: David Gyung/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 31, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). The Sisters of Life have launched a new website providing resources and support for women considering an abortion, women seeking healing after having an abortion,... [...]| Catholic World Report
St. Francis made peace with a wolf and befriended other animals, according to legend. / Credit: Purplexsu/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 31, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Throughout history, many saints have been remembered not only for their dedi... [...]| Catholic World Report
Pope Leo XIV speaks from a window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter's Square during the Sunday Angelus on Aug. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media. Vatican City, Aug 31, 2025 / 07:10 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Sunday prayed for the victims of a shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis, and deplored a worldwide “pandemic of arms” which has left many children dead or injured. “Our prayers for the victims of the tragic shooting during a school Mass in the American state of Min...| Catholic World Report
Cardinal Fernando Chomali speaks with ACI Prensa correspondent Julieta Villar during a January 2025 interview. / Credit: “EWTN Noticas”/Screenshot ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 31, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Cardinal Fernando Chomali, the archbishop of San... [...]| Catholic World Report
Soprano Catherine Wethington sings during a live performance of “Journey of Faith: A Musical Tribute to Mother Teresa” at Carnegie Hall. / Credit: Richard Termine CNA Staff, Aug 31, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). A live musical performance celebrating ... [...]| Catholic World Report
The Vatican announcement that Pope Leo has approved a motion to make St. John Henry Newman the thirty-eighth Doctor of the Church elicited great joy in many Catholics, especially those who attribute their conversions, under [...]| Catholic World Report
Readings: • Sir. 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 • Psa. 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11 • Heb. 12:18-19, 22-24a • Lk. 14:1, 7-14 “Humility,” the Evangelical theologian James Houston once wrote, “is moral realism.” That simple definition stuck with [...]| Catholic World Report
Bishop Erik Varden. / Credit: Pål Johannes Nes CNA Newsroom, Aug 30, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). The Catholic bishops of Norway have issued a pastoral letter calling on the faithful to be guided by Church teaching on human life and dignity in the co... [...]| Catholic World Report
null / Credit: felipe caparros/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 30, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). The United States is seeing the highest number of executions in more than a decade, with 30 executions so far in 2025. CNA has released three new interac... [...]| Catholic World Report
null / Credit: Trevor Owens via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 30, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Here’s a roundup of the latest Catholic education news in the United States:Catholic University of America professor receives $3.89 mil... [...]| Catholic World Report
CAFOD and Caritas Sudan provide cash assistance to IDPs in Kost, Shite Nile State in Sudan. / Credit: CAFOD ACI Africa, Aug 30, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). In one of the worst and most underreported humanitarian crises in the world, taking place in ... [...]| Catholic World Report
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. Regardless of one’s opinion of the Council itself, it is undeniable that its aftermath saw a severe decline in the devotional [...]| Catholic World Report
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on Jan. 28, 2024. / Credit: Patrick Smith/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 29, 2025 / 18:52 pm (CNA). News this week of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement spa... [...]| Catholic World Report
null / Credit: Deemerwha studio/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 29, 2025 / 18:13 pm (CNA). After a man fired over a hundred bullets into a Minneapolis Catholic Church killing two children and injuring 17 others, thousands of mourner... [...]| Catholic World Report
The Council of Nicaea in 325 as depicted in a fresco in Salone Sistino at the Vatican. / Credit: Giovanni Guerra (1544-1618), Cesare Nebbia (1534-1614) e aiuti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Stampa, Aug 29, 2025 / 16:28 pm (CNA). Car... [...]| Catholic World Report
The Shrine of John the Baptist at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, believed to house the head of the saint. / Creidt: Photo courtesy of ACI MENA ACI MENA, Aug 29, 2025 / 14:36 pm (CNA). Each year on Aug. 29, the Church commemorates the be... [...]| Catholic World Report
Pope Leo XIV on Aug. 29, 2025, appointed Father Andres Ligot as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Jose, California. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of San Jose Vatican City, Aug 29, 2025 / 14:06 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Friday app... [...]| Catholic World Report
Over $1 million has been raised through a GoFundMe campaign for victims of the shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. / Credit: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images CNA Staff, Aug 29, 2025 / 12:21 pm (C... [...]| Catholic World Report
2025 Bradley Prize recipient Jimmy Lai. / Credit: Courtesy of the Bradley Foundation Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 25, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Catholic self-made entrepreneur and media tycoon Jimmy Lai built an empire on free speech and truthfu...| www.catholicworldreport.com
St. Joseph Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio. / Credit: LO Kin-hei/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 24, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). As federal budget cuts halt programs for people in need, Catholic Social Services (CSS) in Columbus, Ohio, is en...| www.catholicworldreport.com
Tyler Duffy, director of evangelization at St. Thomas More Catholic Parish in Centennial, Colorado, outside More Coffee. / Credit: Francesca Fenton/CNA Denver, Colo., Aug 23, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Step into More Coffee and you’re immediately g...| www.catholicworldreport.com
The Monument to Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic. In early August 2025, President Luis Abinader promulgated the Dominican Republic’s new penal code, one of the most significant aspects of which is that it maintains an absolut...| www.catholicworldreport.com
Mary. Artist Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Museu da Casa Brasileira. / Credit: Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Mundelein, Ill., Aug 22, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). The Catholic Church annually celebrates the feast of the Q...| www.catholicworldreport.com
Detail from "The Virgin Crowned by Angels" (c.1450) by Stefan Lochner. (Image: WikiArt.org)| Catholic World Report
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James Dobson during an event marking the National Day of Prayer in the East Room of the White House on May 1, 2008, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images CNA Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 15:19 pm (CNA). James Dobson, the evangelical C...| www.catholicworldreport.com
The Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington D.C. / Credit: Madalaine Elhabbal/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 21, 2025 / 18:18 pm (CNA). Catholic churches that serve Spanish-speaking communities in the Archdiocese of Washington have reporte...| www.catholicworldreport.com
Pope Leo XIV prays during his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 13, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 12:42 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has called for a day of fasting and pr...| www.catholicworldreport.com
Pope Leo XIV greets a young papal admirer in St. Peter’s Basilica during the general audience on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Aug 20, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday continued ...| www.catholicworldreport.com
French historian delves into the tumultuous history of traditionalism | www.catholicworldreport.com
A part from the papacy, few doctrines divide the Catholic Church from non-Catholic ecclesial communities as does the doctrine of the indissolubility of a consummated Christian marriage. Eastern Orthodox Christians are permitt ed three marriages; King Henry VIII’s desire to remarry helped lead to the formation of the Anglican Communion. Martin Luther permitted divorce in the cases of adultery, desertion, failure to fulfill conjugal duties, and “where husband and wife cannot get along toget...| Catholic World Report
