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Minnesota school shooting came after bishops’ pleas for security went unanswered
After a pair of out-of-state school shootings in 2022 and 2023 shocked the nation, Minnesota’s bishops implored state lawmakers to provide security funding for local non-public schools. But the bishops’ appeals were rebuffed in both years, as…
Shooting at Minneapolis Catholic school: LIVE UPDATES
On Wednesday morning, a mass shooting took place at a Catholic parish and school in downtown Minneapolis, one that police treated as a “mass casualty” incident. A local crime watch outlet, Minnesota Crime, said police reported 20 victims of an…
Pope Leo publishes his first book
Compiled under the title Let There Be Peace! Words to the Church and to the World, the 160-page book, released by Libreria Editrice Vaticana, is now available in Italian, English, and Spanish, and contains the complete collection of Pope Leo’s…
Salvadoran illegal immigrant surrenders and faces deportation – to Uganda
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national and Maryland resident at the center of a high-profile immigration case, surrendered to U.S. immigration authorities in Baltimore on Aug. 25, and faces possible deportation to Uganda, a nation that…
Three-quarters of a million celebrate the Holy Family in Egypt
Georgena Habbaba, Catholic News Agency/ACI MENA Wednesday, August 27, 2025 A well-known Egyptian religious site, the Monastery of the Virgin Mary in Assiut, thought to be the final stop of the Holy Family’s flight from Herod, hosts one of the…
Where Catholicism is growing in the US
The number of Catholics in the U.S. has grown by 40 percent in the past 40 years – from 48 million to 67 million – new hubs of Catholic life have emerged, ranging from booming major metro areas to smaller communities that are punching well above…
Abortion in the U.S.: Most people still support it
The percentage in favor of allowing access to abortion if a woman wants one for any reason was 57 percent in 2014. In 2024, the share who would allow abortion on demand had risen marginally to 60 percent. All that upheaval, all those court…
Cardinal Burke has a private audience with Leo XIV
America’s Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke has been warmly received in a private audience by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Although details of the conversation have not been made public, the meeting is widely regarded as highly significant. For…
Pope Leo reaches out to Ukraine’s Zelensky on Independence Day
Marking Ukraine’s Independence Day (celebrating the anniversary of freedom from Soviet control in 1991), Pope Leo XIV pledged his prayers for the Ukrainian people in a message to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and encouraged Catholics to respond…
U.S. Commission on International Freedom: Nigeria is deadliest country for Christians
Vicky Hartzler, chairman of the Commission, says her top priority is Nigeria. Citing statistics from Open Doors, an international organization dedicated to helping persecuted Christians, Hartzler said 69 percent of Christians killed worldwide in…