ROME — Pope Leo XIV met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time on Thursday, and the two men discussed the urgent need to provide assistance to civilians in Gaza and to pursue a…
null / Credit: Photographee.eu/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Nov 6, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Claim: Laws requiring minors to notify their parents if they are getting an abortion “threaten young people’s health and safety and undermine…
Wikimedia Commons Left: Detail of St. Emeric from a 1478 painting in the Church of Spišská Kapitula, Slovakia. Right: Charles Willson Peale, “Amerigo Vespucci,” 1816, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. How a Catholic explorer, a…
Daniel Ibanez Tapestry of Saint John Henry Newman hangs in Vatican Square Nov. 1, 2025, on the day Pope Leo XIV declared the saint a doctor of the church. COMMENTARY: The newest doctor of the…
Win McNameeVirginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger delivers remarks during her election night rally at the Greater Richmond Convention Center on Nov. 4, 2025, in Richmond, Virginia. In New Jersey, meanwhile, Democrat Mikie…
A gavel sits on top of court documents. In Pennsylvania, elective abortion is legal through the 23rd week of pregnancy.
Alexi J. RosenfeldDemocratic Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani speaks to members of the media during a press conference after voting on Nov. 4, 2025. | Credit: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images Mamdani, a 34-year-old member of the New…
Jewish and Catholic faith leaders condemned a Halloween parade float that carried a replica of the gate to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz as the designer behind it apologized, saying he made it “with…
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, prays before an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Child during the rosary vigil for Pope Francis at the Vatican…
Daniel Ibáñez/CNACardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, prays before an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Child during the rosary vigil for Pope Francis at the…