The Church of St. Luke

The British Parliament building in London. / Credit: Marinesea/Shutterstock

CNA Staff, Jun 17, 2025 / 18:46 pm (CNA).

British lawmakers voted to decriminalize abortions in England and Wales in a move that pro-life advocates say could endanger women and unborn children. 

Cuba’s Capitol in Havana. / Credit: Nigel Pacquette, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 17, 2025 / 17:26 pm (CNA).

On the occasion of the Jubilee Year of Hope, the bishops of Cuba have published a message denouncing the terrible conditions that prevail on the island.

Renowned exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth. / Credit: Angela Musolesi (CC BY-SA 4.0)

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 17, 2025 / 11:54 am (CNA).

Father Marcello Lanza of the International Association of Exorcists recently honored Father Gabriele Amorth on the 100th anniversary of Amorth’s birth.

Bernardo García is executive director of the Casablanca Declaration. / Credit: “EWTN Noticias”/Screenshot

Lima Newsroom, Jun 17, 2025 / 09:42 am (CNA).

Bernardo García of the Casablanca Declaration said that in reality surrogacy amounts to “the exploitation of poor women and the sale of children.”

St. Anthony of Padua, by El Greco (c. 1580). / Credit: Public domain

Padua, Italy, Jun 13, 2025 / 12:32 pm (CNA).

Today the Church celebrates St. Anthony of Padua, whose widespread popularity can be traced to his efforts at reaching out as a neighbor to all.

French president Emmanuel Macron. / Credit: Frederic Legrand COMEO/Shutterstock

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 12, 2025 / 17:08 pm (CNA).

French President Emmanuel Macron has joined other European and North American leaders in a call for age verification requirements for social media.

Miguel Uribe Turbay, Colombian senator and presidential hopeful; and Cardinal Luis José Rueda, archbishop of Bogotá. / Credit: Luigi Venegas (CC BY-SA 4.0); Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News

Lima Newsroom, Jun 12, 2025 / 16:38 pm (CNA).

Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, a husband and father, was gravely wounded on June 7 in Bogotá when a 15-year-old boy shot him in the head.

Scene of the walled city of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. The oldest governor’s mansion under the American flag, La Fortaleza, is top right. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons

CNA Staff, Jun 12, 2025 / 15:17 pm (CNA).

As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement increases its raids and deportations in Puerto Rico, several of the island’s bishops have expressed alarm.

Migrants walk alongside the railroad tracks after dismounting from the “La Bestia” train, which they rode through Mexico to reach the Mexico-U.S. border near Chihuahua, Mexico. / Credit: David Peinado Romero/Shutterstock

Puebla, Mexico, Jun 11, 2025 / 17:44 pm (CNA).

The Catholic bishops of neighboring Mexico are reacting to the wave of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids that are provoking unrest in various cities.

Bishop Wilhelm Krautwaschl, the bishop of Graz-Seckau in Austria, expressed being “stunned and shaken” following a deadly shooting at a school in Graz on June 10, 2025. / Credit: Screenshot / YouTube / Katholische Kirche Steiermark

CNA Deutsch, Jun 11, 2025 / 13:01 pm (CNA).

The bishop of Graz-Seckau in Austria, Wilhelm Krautwaschl, expressed being “stunned and shaken” following a deadly shooting at a school in Graz that claimed 10 lives.