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Adoption: The Life-Giving Option America Overlooks

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California couple with 21 kids from surrogate mothers charged with neglect, endangerment

Human embryos. / Credit: Andrii Vodolazhskyi/CNA CNA Staff, Jul 18, 2025 / 15:00 pm (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news.California couple that had 21 kids via surrogate mothers charged with neglect, endangermen... [...]

Catholic Charities Fort Worth to continue refugee efforts

Fort Worth, Texas, skyline. / Credit: The Safety Kingpin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Houston, Texas, Jul 18, 2025 / 14:30 pm (CNA). Catholic Charities Fort Worth (CCFW) announced July 17 that it will continue leading the Texas Office f... [...]

Pope Leo XIV receives call from Netanyahu after Gaza church attack

Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, and Pope Leo XIV. / Credit: Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0/Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 18, 2025 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV received a phone call Friday from Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime ... [...]

Pizzaballa, Patriarch Theophilos III visit Holy Family Church in Gaza after Israeli attack

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III, leave the church after a visit to Holy Family Parish in Gaza on July 18, 2025. / Credit: Caritas Jerusalem Rome Newsroom, Jul 18, 2... [...]

Israel says Holy Family Church in Gaza was ‘mistakenly’ hit, ‘regrets’ damage

A view of the damage to Holy Family Church in Gaza City following an Israeli strike on the church in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on July 17, 2025. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said an Israeli strike on Gaza’s only Catholic churc... [...]

Federal court blocks Washington law that would force priests to violate seal of confession

null / Credit: Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 18, 2025 / 12:30 pm (CNA). A federal court on July 18 blocked a controversial Washington state reporting law that would require priests to violate the seal of confession, siding with th... [...]

Pope to Cardinal Pizzaballa after Gaza church attack: ‘It is time to stop this slaughter’

Pope Leo XIV called Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa on Friday, July 18, 2025, just before the cardinal entered Gaza following the July 17 attack on Holy Family Parish in Gaza. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 18, 2025 / ... [...]

Surf, Sand, and Sacrament: Hundreds Attend Long Island’s ‘Beach Catholic’ Summer Mass

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