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How federal and state abortion policies shifted in 2025

December 30, 2025 Catholic News Agency 2

Fifty-one senators asked the FDA to rescind its approval of a generic version of the abortion drug mifepristone on Oct. 9, 2025. | Credit: Yta23/Shutterstock

Dec 30, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Abortion policy at the federal and state levels has con… […]

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Pope Leo XIV warns against gambling, which ‘ruins many families’

December 30, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Dec 30, 2025 / 10:45 am Pope Leo XIV warned about the danger that gambling poses to many families during a Dec. 29 audience with members of the National Association of Italian Municipalities. At the […]

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Thousands of young Europeans are beginning the new year at ecumenical gathering

December 30, 2025 Catholic News Agency 3

Dec 30, 2025 / 09:00 am Thousands of young Catholics and other fellow Christians from various traditions are in Paris this week ushering out 2025 and ushering in 2026 as part of an ecumenical gathering organized […]

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Rep. Tom Emmer credits his parents’ example in fostering Catholic faith

December 30, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

U.S. House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minnesota, talks about his faith with Eric Rosales on “EWTN News Nightly” on Dec. 29, 2025. | Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot

Dec 30, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Republican Rep. Tom Emmer, U.S. House… […]

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What It Means To Be Protestant is mostly about not being Catholic

December 29, 2025 Casey Chalk 99

What is Protestantism? It seems a straightforward thing to answer. Protestantism is the affirmation of Scripture as the ultimate, unparalleled authority of Christian faith and practice. Protestantism is the “five solae” of the sixteenth-century Reformation: Sola Scriptura, Solus […]

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Popular Catholic speaker pleads for a miracle amid son’s medical emergency

December 29, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Dec 29, 2025 / 17:51 pm Paul Kim, a highly popular Catholic youth and young adult speaker, continues to share updates on his 5-year-old son, Micah, who remains on life support following a sudden medical emergency […]

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Jonathan Roumie tells Father Mike Schmitz: ‘Everything in my life has prepared me for this role’

December 29, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Dec 29, 2025 / 17:21 pm In a new sit-down interview with Father Mike Schmitz, who is best known for the “Bible in a Year” podcast and YouTube videos on Ascension Presents, actor Jonathan Roumie […]

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Pope Leo XIV: To let God work in your life, you have to empty yourself

December 29, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Dec 29, 2025 / 14:48 pm Pope Leo XIV on Monday explained that in order to allow God’s action in our personal lives, people must “empty” themselves and cultivate a deep inner life. The pontiff […]

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Bishop of Columbus grants Mass dispensation to immigrants who fear deportation

December 29, 2025 Catholic News Agency 5

Bishop Earl Fernandes of Columbus, Ohio, carries the Blessed Sacrament during a procession at Pickaway Correctional Institution on June 28, 2024, at one of the stops on the Seton Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. Credit: Catholic Tim… […]

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U.S. executions rise in 2025 amid shifting public opinion

December 29, 2025 Catholic News Agency 8

A rise in executions in the United States in 2025 occurred alongside “shifting public opinion” against the death penalty, offering anti-death-penalty advocates a hopeful sign going into 2026 even amid high levels of capital punishment. […]

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