MUMBAI, India – One Catholic was killed and a teenager was injured after gunmen attacked pilgrims in Pakistan. Afzal Masih, a 42-year-old father of four, was the man killed in the van carrying 18 Catholic… Catholic pilgrim murdered in Pakistan
Jonathan Weiss Once-great American cities descend further into dysfunction, blighting millions of lives that might have been creatively lived — and Americans are obsessing over Cracker Barrel logos? COMMENTARY: A morally centered society should be… Let’s Make America Serious Again
SOPA ImagesPope Leo XIV presides over the canonizations of Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis in St. Peter’s Square on Sept. 7, 2025. ‘They are saints who bring us closer to the path to holiness… Catholics React to New Saints Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati
CNS photoArchbishop Christian Lépine of Montreal, shown in a 2017 photo, has written a public letter opposing the Quebec government’s plan to ban public prayer. Archbishop Lépine said the proposal by Quebec Premier François Legault… Quebec’s Proposed Prayer Ban ‘Like Forbidding Thought Itself,’ Montreal Archbishop Says
null / Credit: Stock-Asso/Shutterstock London, England, Sep 9, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). A priest and professor of bioethics has issued a grave warning about the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) companionship, highlighting the threats… AI companions pose risks of isolation, psychosis, priest warns
The National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland, began a year of celebration on the saint’s canonization in 2025. / Credit: Seton Shrine Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 9, 2025 / 08:00 am… Seton Shrine to celebrate 50 years of America’s first native-born saint
St. Carlo Acutis (left) and St. Pier Giorgio Frassati. / Credit: Diocese of Assisi/Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Sep 9, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Catholic Church will commemorate the liturgical memorial… Vatican establishes feast days of St. Carlo Acutis and St. Pier Giorgio Frassati
ROME – Penguin Random House announced Monday that notoriously media-shy Pope Leo XIV has given his first-ever papal interview to Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen as part of her new biography of the pontiff.… Leo gives first exclusive interview to Crux correspondent for new bio
Sirio Carnevalino The Church of the Gesù, where a Mass and prayer vigil for LGBT Christians took place on Sept. 6, 2025, in Rome during the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope. | More than 1,000… Italian Bishop Celebrates Mass for LGBT Pilgrimage in Rome’s Church of the Gesù
Courtesy photoThe Maronite bishops gather for their monthly meeting at the Patriarchal Summer Residence in Dimane, Lebanon, where they issued a statement that Lebanon must seize available regional and international opportunities to restore full sovereignty… Maronite Bishops Call for Full Restoration of Lebanese Sovereignty