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Supreme Court to hear 2 cases on allowing males to compete in female sports

null / Credit: Wolfgang Schaller|Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 3, 2025 / 15:33 pm (CNA). The U.S. Supreme Court during its next term will consider two cases addressing whether or not states can ban males from participating in female sports league... [...]

Wisconsin Catholic leaders decry repealed abortion ban

The Wisconsin Supreme Court building in Madison, Wisconsin. / Credit: Richard Hurd/Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Jul 3, 2025 / 15:03 pm (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news.Wisconsin Catholic leaders decry repeal... [...]

Vatican downplays leaked documents on Latin Mass

The Confiteor at a Traditional Latin Mass. / Credit: James Bradley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Jul 3, 2025 / 09:15 am (CNA). A Vatican spokesman has played down the significance of recently leaked Vatican documents that appe... [...]

Michigan’s Siena Heights University announces closure after 105 years

Sacred Heart Hall at Siena Heights University in Adrian Michigan. / Credit: Dwight Burdette, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 3, 2025 / 13:32 pm (CNA). Siena Heights University will close at the conclusion of the ... [...]

Cardinal Fernández says judges selected to hear Rupnik sexual abuse trial

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaks during a press conference about a new Vatican document on human dignity on April 8, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Jul 3, 2025 / 1... [...]

Pope Leo’s hometown votes to buy his house

Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in Dolton, Illinois, may soon belong to his hometown after the Dolton Village Board voted unanimously on July 1 to purchase the now-famous house at 212 E. 142nd Place. The three-bedroom, one-bathroom house belonged to the Prevost family for about half a century, said a listing on an auction website. Read More…

Pope Leo’s hometown votes to buy his house

A reflection on the tragic death of footballer Diogo Jota

In the early hours of July 3, the world of football (soccer for US fans) was shaken by the heartbreaking news that Liverpool and Portugal star Diogo Jota, 28, and his younger brother André Silva lost their lives in a car crash on Spain’s A‑52 motorway near Cernadilla, Zamora, when their Lamborghini suffered a tire Read More…

A reflection on the tragic death of footballer Diogo Jota

Graham Greene, Doubting Thomas, and Padre Pio

There is a curious connection between Graham Greene, one of the most successful Catholic novelists of the 20th century, and St. Thomas the Apostle. At Greene’s reception into the Catholic Church in 1926, when he was only 21 years old, he chose St. Thomas for his confirmation name. The choice of “doubting Thomas” as his Read More…

Graham Greene, Doubting Thomas, and Padre Pio

Vianney, Plump, and Meyer—Indiana’s Miracle Men

Knowing he could not simply keep doing what had been done, a young priest tried something different: an imitation of something old.

The New Romanticism: Hope and Caution for the Church Today

While most of us are alarmed by secular culture, aptly captured in Swift's "New Romantics," it might just be fertile soil for the perennial beauty that springs from the seeds of Catholic tradition.