Devastating flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. They called on the Church to be a sign of hope amid difficulties.

Police cruisers near Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, 2025, following a mass shooting that killed two children and injured 17 others, 14 of them children. / Credit: Chad Davis, CC BY 4.0,… Minneapolis Catholic church shooter expressed regret about ‘gender transition’

null / Credit: Radioshoot/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Aug 29, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The 2025 EWTN Catholic Radio Conference has drawn hundreds of attendees to Washington, D.C., this week to discuss and learn more about… EWTN radio conference highlights importance of ‘strong Catholic identity’

MINNEAPOLIS — The shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded more than a dozen youngsters sitting in the pews of a Minneapolis church once attended the same school and was “obsessed” with the… Police say Minneapolis church shooter was filled with hatred and admired mass killers

null / Credit: ArtOlympic/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 29, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news in the United States: Illinois man faces homicide charge after allegedly poisoning… Illinois man faces homicide charge after allegedly poisoning girlfriend with abortion pill

Authorities are working to learn the motive of the shooter who fired into a Minneapolis Catholic school’s church during Wednesday’s Mass, killing two children and injuring 17 worshippers. Officials identified the shooter as Robin Westman,… What we know about the shooter who killed 2 and wounded 17 in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS — In the vaulted church of a Catholic school in Minneapolis, the pews were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren listening to a psalm on the third day of the new school year. “For you… Minneapolis Catholic schoolchildren listened to a prayer, then ducked for cover from gunfire

Law enforcement vehicles sit parked outside a reported residence of a suspect following a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on Aug. 27, 2025 in Richfield, Minnesota. / Credit: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom,… Minneapolis Catholic Church shooter mocked Christ in video before attack

The Minnesota state capitol in St. Paul. / Credit: Steve Heap/Shutterstock National Catholic Register, Aug 28, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). After a pair of out-of-state school shootings in 2022 and 2023 shocked the nation,… Minnesota school shooting came after bishops’ pleas for security went unanswered

St. Augustine of Hippo. / Credit: Cathopic CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). The Catholic Church honors St. Augustine of Hippo, an early Church Father, doctor of the Church, and foundational theologian,… 5 powerful quotes from St. Augustine’s most famous work, the ‘Confessions’