• Sikhs Pilgrims Allowed To Visit Pakistan After India Reverses Ban
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from RealClearReligion - Homepage
    Unplugged On a crisp fall morning in Amritsar, Jagjit Singh stood at the gates of his local Sikh temple clutching a folder thick with documents, identity papers, passport copies, and the...
  • Sarah Finally Separates Herself from Abraham
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from RealClearReligion - Homepage
    Rabbi Wendy Zierler, The Torah In protest against the binding of Isaac, Sarah returns alone to Hebron, the site where YHWH promised her a son. This move marks the moment when she stops...
  • New Catholic sports coaching program focuses on mind, body, and soul
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from CNA
    Rachael Isaac speaks to student athletes at Franciscan University of Steubenville, hosted by Franciscan University Athletic’s Athlete Center for Excellence (ACE), in October 2024. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Catholic Counselors CNA...
  • Worldwide Catholic population up, vocations down
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    Pope Leo XIV is seen here at the Jubilee of Youth on August 3, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 11:48 am (CNA). On the occasion of World Mission Day, to be celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 19, the Vatican news...
  • Mexican artisans turn clay into Trees of Life that are celebrated worldwide
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from Religion News Service
    METEPEC, Mexico (AP) — Known as a Tree of Life, it belongs to a tradition that flourished in the hands of artisans in the mid-20th century and is considered a symbol of identity in Metepec. The post Mexican artisans turn clay into Trees...
  • Pope Leo XIV: Lives of the newly canonized saints are ‘luminous signs of hope’
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    Seven new saints were canonized on Oct. 19, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 20, 2025 / 14:53 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Monday highlighted the life testimony of the saints canonized Sunday, Oct. 19, as...
  • Churches destroyed by the Islamic State reopen in Iraq
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from Christian Today
    "These churches are not just stones. They are the memory of faith, history, and community," said Archbishop Najeeb Michael Moussa.
  • Lords seek to prevent abortion up to birth becoming law
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from Christian Today
    Abortion up until the point of birth will effectively be legal in Britain if no changes are made.
  • Pope Leo XIV Canonizes 7 New Saints
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from RealClearReligion - Homepage
    Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency Pope Leo XIV declared seven new saints before an estimated 70,000 people in St. Peter's Square at the canonization Mass on Oct. 19. Among the new saints is...
  • Leo XIV on World Mission Sunday: ‘Will the Son of Man find faith on Earth?’
    Sunday, October 19, 2025 from Crux
    “When we hear the cries of those in difficulty,” Pope Leo XIV said, “let us ask ourselves: Are we witnesses to the Father’s love, as Christ was to all?”
  • Who was St Luke and what do we know about him?
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from Christian Today
    18 October is St Luke’s Day. But who was St Luke, and what do we know about him? This is the story …
  • ‘Watershed moment’: Judge allows class action suit over school’s gender policies
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from CNA
    null / Credit: NMKStudio@Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 17, 2025 / 13:19 pm (CNA). A federal judge in California will allow a class action lawsuit to proceed for potentially millions of parents and teachers regarding school district rules...
  • Pope Leo to grieving father: ‘Death never has the last word’
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from EWTN News - World Catholic News
    Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter's Square on September 28, 2025. / Vatican Media screenshot CNA Newsroom, Oct 17, 2025 / 13:38 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has responded to a letter from a grieving father with the encouragement...
  • 'We need to change,' says incoming Church of Scotland Moderator
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from Christian Today
    "The way we've been doing church over the past 30 to 40 years was great for then, but it isn't great for this moment in time," said Rev Gordon Kennedy.
  • Pope Leo XIV meets clergy abuse survivors at Vatican
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from CNA
    Ending Clergy Abuse board members and survivors hold a press conference after meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 20, 2025 in Rome. / Credit: Simone Padovani/Getty Images Vatican City, Oct 20, 2025 / 12:21 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Monday...
  • Vatican liturgist urges U.S. Church to follow Pope Francis’ guidelines on Mass
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from CNA
    Pope Francis with Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery of Divine Worship and Discipline of Sacraments, at the consistory in St. Peter's Basilica, Aug. 27, 2022 / Daniel Ibáñez / CNA Washington, D.C....
  • Poll finds revival of interest in religion in Northern Ireland among young people
    Sunday, October 19, 2025 from EWTN News - World Catholic News
    The All Ireland Rosary Rally has attracted increasingly larger crowds. This year’s rally included a youth conference and a prayer vigil in the basilica to welcome the feast of Pentecost on June 8, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the...
  • New Jersey says parish finance director stole more than $500,000 in church funds
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from CNA
    null / Credit: vmargineanu/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 14:15 pm (CNA). Officials in New Jersey have charged a former parish financial director with the theft of more than half a million dollars in church funds. Joseph Manzi...
  • Pope Leo XIV canonizes 7 new saints, including first from Venezuela and Papua New Guinea
    Sunday, October 19, 2025 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    A Venezuelan priest who concelebrated the canonization Mass with Pope Leo XIV celebrates his country's first saints in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 19, 2025. / Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN Vatican City, Oct 19, 2025 / 08:15 am (CNA). Pope...
  • Pope Leo XIV says first canonized couple give example of ‘marriage as a path to holiness’
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    Louis and Zelie Martin. Public Domain image. / null Vatican City, Oct 18, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). In a message marking the 10th anniversary of the canonization of Saints Louis and Zélie Martin on Oct. 18, Pope Leo XIV said their lives...
  • Lawyer urges judge to acquit British ex-soldier in 1972 Bloody Sunday killings in Northern Ireland
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from Crux
    A lawyer for the only British soldier charged in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre said Thursday that prosecutors failed to prove murder and attempted murder charges, as he urged a judge to acquit the former paratrooper.
  • Catholic music debate: Should certain hymns be banned?
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from CNA
    Scene from the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, Indiana. / Credit: EWTN News in Depth/Screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 18, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Several hymns were temporarily banned last year in the Diocese...
  • Political tensions surface amid celebrations honoring Venezuela’s 2 new saints
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from CNA
    Venezualans celebate their country’s two new saints during the canonization ceremony on Oct. 19, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News Vatican City, Oct 20, 2025 / 14:23 pm (CNA). Underlying...
  • Department of Homeland Security denies ICE targeted Chicago parish 
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from CNA
    A protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement features a sign that reads "Chicago Stands With Immigrant Families." The Department of Homeland Security denies ICE targeted a Chicago parish on Oct. 12, 2025. / Credit:...
  • St. Ignatius of Antioch: The early Church Father who longed for union with Christ
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from EWTN News - World Catholic News
    St. Ignatius of Antioch with the child Jesus. / Credit: Lorenzo Lotto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Oct 17, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). On Oct. 17, the Catholic Church remembers the early Church Father, bishop, and martyr...
  • After altar wine becomes popular in bars, Kenya’s Catholic bishops order proprietary brand
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from Religion News Service
    NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — 'This is (the) only wine going forward that will be used in the celebration Mass in the whole of the country. Kindly, don’t buy the other one,' said Archbishop Maurice Muhatia Makumba, chairman of the Kenya...
  • The Secret to Jewish Resilience? We Hate Endings
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from RealClearReligion - Homepage
    David Suissa, Jewish Journal There's an unusual tradition on the holiday of Simchat Torah, after we complete the annual reading cycle of the Five Books of Moses. Instead of a celebration for...
  • Meet the 7 saints Pope Leo XIV will canonize on Oct. 19
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    Pope Leo XIV will canonize seven new saints on Sunday including an Italian lawyer who renounced Satanism and became “an apostle of the Rosary,” a martyred Armenian archbishop, and a Venezuelan considered the “doctor of the poor.” Banners...
  • Longtime Vatican official and Italian archbishop Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli dies at 86
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from CNA
    Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli, archbishop emeritus of Ancona-Osimo, in the northern Italian region of Marche, has died at the age of 86 after a long illness. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News ACI Stampa, Oct 20, 2025 / 13:23 pm (CNA)....
  • CNA Explains: What is the Catholic Church's position on IVF?
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from CNA
    null / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 17, 2025 / 14:38 pm (CNA). On Thursday evening, President Donald Trump announced new efforts to expand access to IVF, which includes a deal with EMD Serono, a subsidiary of the...
  • Can Science Reckon With the Human Soul?
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from RealClearReligion - Homepage
    Charles Murray, Wall Street Journal College socialized me to dismiss religion. It was part of the academic zeitgeist: Smart people don't believe that stuff anymore. I...
  • Ex-hostage’s mom at rally: Israel can only heal when all bodies return, PM faces justice
    Sunday, October 19, 2025 from Jewish News, Israel news - Latest Breaking News
    Government ‘will never evade responsibility’ for Oct. 7, says Einav Zangauker after her son returned in deal; Labor MK Kariv urges further anti-government struggle, full… Read More ›
  • The Bible is a firm foundation in an ever-changing mission field
    Sunday, October 19, 2025 from Christian Today
    There is a growing cultural moment of openness and curiosity with the spiritual realm, and Christianity in particular. 
  • Young Britons more hopeful than older generations about ending global poverty, survey finds
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from Christian Today
    Young people are more likely to believe that global poverty can be eradicated, but this optimism declines sharply with age, a new study by Compassion UK has found. 
  • Conservative young priests are the future of the American church
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from Religion News Service
    (RNS) — The political and theological views of younger priests are out of sync with their peers and with the Catholic population. The post Conservative young priests are the future of the American church appeared first on RNS .
  • New York man receives $8 million from Diocese of Albany in abuse settlement
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from CNA
    The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany, NY. / Drew Proto via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0) CNA Staff, Oct 17, 2025 / 15:09 pm (CNA). A New York man has received an $8 million settlement from the Diocese of Albany over claims that...
  • St. Luke: The cultured physician who chronicled the life of Jesus
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from CNA
    The painting St. Luke the Evangelist in the church Iglesia El Buen Pastor by Miguel Vaguer (1959). / Credit: Renata Sedmakova/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). On Oct. 18, Catholics and other Christians around the...
  • Virtual summit aims to inspire attendees to grow as digital missionaries for the Church
    Sunday, October 19, 2025 from CNA
    The Engage Virtual Summit, presented by eCatholic, is a two-day virtual conference bringing together lay Catholics, clergy, and religious from parishes, schools, dioceses, and ministries to explore innovative tools and strategies and...
  • 2 priests in Spain threatened with prison for criticizing radical Islam are acquitted
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from CNA
    Father Custodio Ballester, a Spanish priest, was acquitted of hate crimes along with another priest and a journalist. / Credit: Photo courtesy of HazteOir.org ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 06:30 am (CNA). Two priests and a journalist...
  • Jesus Cast Down the Mighty from Their Thrones. So Should We
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from RealClearReligion - Homepage
    Sojourners In the past week, the Trump administration brokered a deal that secured the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. While the terms of the long overdue ceasefire...
  • And G-d saw that it was very good
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from Christian Today
    Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster reflects on divine purpose and human resilience.
  • Pope Leo XIV hails Roma, Sinti, and Travelers’ faith amid marginalization
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from EWTN News - Vatican News
    Pope Leo XIV hugs a man during the Jubilee of Roma, Sinti, and Travelers on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 18, 2025 / 13:10 pm (CNA). About 4,000 pilgrims from more than 70 countries in Europe and...
  • Is religion’s power on its way back in the USA? A growing number of Americans say yes.
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from Religion News Service
    (RNS) — A new study found that about a third of Americans say religion’s influence in society is growing — up more than 10 percentage points from a year earlier. The post Is religion’s power on its way back in the USA? A growing...
  • Pope Leo XIV appoints Boston auxiliary Mark O’Connell to lead Diocese of Albany, New York
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from CNA
    Bishop Mark O’Connell. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Archdiocese of Boston Vatican City, Oct 20, 2025 / 09:44 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Monday named Bishop Mark O’Connell, an auxiliary bishop of Boston, the next bishop of the Diocese...
  • EU's Digital Services Act could censor the whole world
    Saturday, October 18, 2025 from Christian Today
    Legal advocacy group ADF International has published an open letter calling for a rethink of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA).
  • Archbishop Broglio laments cancellation of U.S. Army chapel contracts
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from CNA
    Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks at the USCCB fall plenary assembly Nov. 14, 2023. / Credit: USCCB video Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 17, 2025 / 14:08 pm (CNA). Archbishop for the...
  • Jerusalem Church leaders welcome Gaza ceasefire
    Friday, October 17, 2025 from CNA
    Churches in Jerusalem. / Credit: Amizor via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 17, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week that you might have missed: Jerusalem...
  • Pope Leo Follows in Francis' Footsteps
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from RealClearReligion - Homepage
    Gaetano Masciullo, The European Conservative On October 9, Pope Leo XIV released Dilexi te , his first magisterial document. The Pontiff, who holds American and Peruvian citizenship,...
  • Tehran’s Christians find both hope and hardship amid symbolic gesture
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from Christian Today
    Tehran has inaugurated a new metro station named after the Virgin Mary
  • Report Claims Opus Dei Faces Sweeping Reform
    Monday, October 20, 2025 from RealClearReligion - Homepage
    Niwa Limbu, The Catholic Herald A report published by the news site InfoVaticana has claimed that Opus Dei, one of the most influential institutions in the modern Church, is on the...
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