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Slovenia rejects euthanasia law in referendum, freezes issue for at least a year

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EWTN News, Nov 26, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA).

Slovenia rejected euthanasia legislation in a Nov. 23 referendum, with 53% voting against the law backed by Catholic bishops and civil groups.

Prince Albert II blocks bill expanding abortion law in defense of Monaco’s Catholic identity

Prince Albert II of Monaco in 2025. / Credit: VALERY HACHE/Getty Images

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 25, 2025 / 17:01 pm (CNA).

Prince Albert II of Monaco has announced that he will not sign into law a bill that aims to relax the conditions for accessing abortion in the European microstate.

New World Liberty Congress president analyzes ‘silence’ of Church in Nicaragua

Pope Leo XIV meets with Bishop Rolando Álvarez on Nov. 13, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 25, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

The new president of the World Liberty Congress recently analyzed the “silence” of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which is under persecution by President Daniel Ortega.

3 German bishops oppose school guide on ‘diversity of sexual identities’

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EWTN News, Nov 24, 2025 / 16:08 pm (CNA).

Published on Oct. 30, the document is intended to serve as an orientation aid for Catholic and other schools in Germany.

Why Pope Pius XI established the feast of Christ the King in a turbulent 1925

The Chapel of Christ the King at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. / Credit: Courtesy of Christendom College

Dublin, Ireland, Nov 23, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

The feast of Christ the King was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 following his encyclical Quas Primas. Today it is celebrated on the final Sunday before Advent. 

The laywoman whose mission helped lead to the feast of Christ the King

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Dublin, Ireland, Nov 22, 2025 / 13:00 pm (CNA).

How Marthe de Noaillat championed Christ’s kingship against all odds.

Report links rising childlessness to abortion amid record-low fertility in England, Wales

Kevin Duffy'’s analysis of ONS conceptions data over the 10 years to 2022 illustrates that approximately half of women who have not had a child by the age of 30 would not have been childless without abortion in the years before this. Duffy says: “For these women it was a decision upon becoming pregnant, not to continue into motherhood at that time, for a whole myriad of reasons.” / Credit: Courtesy of Kevin Duffy

London, England, Nov 22, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

A report called “Abortion and Childlessness” shows that many women who have abortions in their 20s may be faced with the real risk of remaining childless at 45.

Joy in Dublin as papal designation gives city first Catholic cathedral since Reformation

Archbishop Dermot Farrell of the Dublin Archdiocese holds up the decree on Nov. 14, 2025, that Pope Leo XIV sent him granting his request that St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Dublin be designated as the cathedral Church of the archdiocese. / Credit: John McElroy/Dublin Archdiocese

Dublin, Ireland, Nov 21, 2025 / 12:09 pm (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV formally designated St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Dublin, ending 200 years of the cathedral’s “temporary” status.

One-third of recent Catholic priests in England are Anglican converts, report shows

The ordination of Jonathan Goodall (former Anglican bishop) to the Catholic priesthood in Westminster Cathedral, London, March 12, 2022. / Credit: Mazur/CBCEW.org.uk

London, England, Nov 21, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

The U.K. has seen a significant rise in Anglican clergy, including bishops, converting to Catholicism, according to a new report released Nov. 20.

Pro-life groups condemn ‘glorification’ of Kessler twins’ assisted suicide in Germany

Alice Kessler and Ellen Kessler attend the Circus Krone Christmas Premiere at Circus Krone on Dec. 25, 2022, in Munich, Germany. The twin sisters ended their lives by assisted suicide at their home in Grünwald, close to Munich, on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. / Credit: Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images

CNA Deutsch, Nov 20, 2025 / 13:18 pm (CNA).

The Federal Association for the Right to Life has criticized the “praise” many have voiced about the recent assisted suicides of the 89-year-old Kessler twins in Germany.