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Alex Newman at UN COP30 — On the Ground in the Amazon
From November 15–21, Alex Newman and Andrew Muller will report from Belém, Brazil, bringing you inside access to the 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30). Expect daily dispatches, interviews,…
Pope calls for renewed reverence and beauty in Church liturgy
Celebrating Mass at St. John Lateran (the Cathedral of Rome) before more than 2,700 faithful, the pope said that “care of the liturgy in the place of the See of Peter must be such that it can be offered as an example for all the people of God,…
Pope Leo XIV may visit Sri Lanka, Vatican diplomat says
Santosh Digal, Catholic News Agency Tuesday, November 11, 2025 A top Vatican diplomat has raised the possibility of a papal visit to Sri Lanka as the two nations marked 50 years of diplomatic relations this month, a milestone reached as the…
Pope Leo to call Cardinals to Rome for an extraordinary consistory
Pope Leo XIV is expected to summon the world’s cardinals to Rome in early January next year for an extraordinary consistory, according to a Vatican communication circulated this week. Speculation among some Curial circles suggests that the…
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to require biological sex on passports
Daniel Payne, Catholic News Agency Monday, November 10, 2025 The U.S. Supreme Court said on Thursday that the Trump administration could require passports to display an applicant’s biological sex, granting the White House a victory in its…
Texas voters approve adding parental rights amendment to state constitution
Texas voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Proposition 15, the Parental Rights Amendment, with more than 72 percent in favor. The measure, which passed alongside all 16 other constitutional amendments on the ballot, enshrines parents’…
In Brazil, ‘informal unions’ have exceeded married couples
Unmarried partners living together in Brazil exceeded legally and religiously married couples for the first time, according to the 2022 census released on November 5th by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. According to the…
Socialist Muslim wins New York City mayoral race
Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency Thursday, November 6, 2025 Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist who promotes gender ideology and abortion access, won his bid for mayor of New York City on Tuesday, decisively defeating his two…
Pope answers questions about migrants, Venezuela, Rupnik trial
On the question of the Chicago detention facility where inmates were refused the Eucharist, Pope Leo prefaced his remarks by noting how, at his Mass at a Rome cemetery on November 1, the Gospel reading was from Matthew 25 with its litany of…
Conservatives splinter over ‘influencer’ Nick Fuentes
Josh Christenson, New York Post Wednesday, November 5, 2025 One of the largest conservative think tanks in Washington, DC, has been roiled by its president’s embrace of Tucker Carlson after the conservative podcaster hosted white nationalist…