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Pope Leo XIV: The person and families must be at center of labor system
Posted on 12/19/2025 14:30 PM (Catholic World Report)
Pope Leo XIV addresses employment consultants on Dec. 18, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 14:30 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV advocated for a labor system that serves individuals and families so that the ... [...]
Church leaders condemn arson attack on top Bangladesh newspaper offices
Posted on 12/19/2025 13:24 PM (Catholic World Report)
A group set fire to the office of the country’s top Bangla newspaper, Prothom Alo, late on Dec. 19, 2025, to protest the killing of Sharif Osman Hadi, a front-line leader of a 2024 uprising in Bangladesh. / Credit: Dipu Malaker
Dhaka, Banglades... [...]
Massachusetts removes LGBT ideology requirements for foster care parents
Posted on 12/19/2025 12:54 PM (Catholic World Report)
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CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 12:54 pm (CNA).
Massachusetts will no longer require prospective foster parents to affirm gender ideology in order to qualify for fostering children, with the move coming after a ... [...]
Albany’s retired bishop files for personal bankruptcy
Posted on 12/19/2025 12:24 PM (Catholic World Report)
Bishop Edward Scarfenberger. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Albany
National Catholic Register, Dec 19, 2025 / 12:24 pm (CNA).
A retired New York bishop has filed for personal bankruptcy protection in federal court after a state jury... [...]
Catholic bishops, families ask Supreme Court to rule for Catholic schools in Colorado suit
Posted on 12/19/2025 11:52 AM (Catholic World Report)
Colorado state capitol in Denver. / Credit: Shutterstock
CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 11:52 am (CNA).
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a coalition of Catholic families, and numerous other advocates are petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to... [...]
Pope Leo XIV writes preface to book that shaped his spiritual life
Posted on 12/19/2025 11:05 AM (Catholic World Report)
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Jubilee of Prisoners in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 14, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Dec 19, 2025 / 11:05 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV has written the preface to a new Vatican edition of the book “... [...]
A new blessed for Argentina: Pope Leo XIV approves miracle attributed to Enrique Shaw
Posted on 12/19/2025 10:35 AM (Catholic World Report)
Servant of God Enrique Shaw. / Credit: Acdeano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 10:35 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Venerable Enrique Shaw, an Argentine lay... [...]
New animated film ‘David’ tells story of Israel’s famous king for the whole family
Posted on 12/19/2025 10:00 AM (Catholic World Report)
A new animated film titled “David” tells the story of King David — from his humble beginnings as a shepherd boy to his battle against Goliath. / Credit: Sunrise Animation Studios
CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA).
A new animated film cal... [...]
Bishop Richard Moth to succeed Cardinal Nichols as archbishop of Westminster
Posted on 12/19/2025 09:26 AM (Catholic World Report)
Bishop Richard Moth, a former bishop of Britain’s military ordinariate, was appointed as the 12th archbishop of Westminster on Dec. 19, 2025. / Credit: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
London, England, Dec 19, 2025 / 09:26 am (CNA).
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Jerusalem churches advocate for Gazan children to have cancer treatment in Israel
Posted on 12/19/2025 08:00 AM (Catholic World Report)
Eight-year-old Yamen Abu Hilal lies on a bed as a woman sits beside him in a hospital room in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Nov. 24, 2025. His condition has sharply worsened amid the collapse of Gaza’s health care system, which has been unable to p... [...]