St. Mary's Church

Cada 16 de noviembre la Iglesia celebra a San Roque González de Santa Cruz, sacerdote jesuita, mártir y primer santo paraguayo.

La orden ejecutiva emitida el 13 de noviembre declara que la administración Trump está "dedicada a empoderar a madres y padres para que críen a sus hijos en hogares seguros y afectuosos"

El rector del Santuario de Guadalupe en el cerrito de Des Plaines en el estado de Illinois (EE.UU.) recordó el ataque incendiario en 2023 y resaltó que, así como ese lugar de culto, “también podemos renacer de las cenizas” e invitó a todos a peregrinar allí por la fiesta de la Virgen de Guadalupe que la Iglesia celebra el 12 de diciembre.

La Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Chiquinquirá precisó que las actividades religiosas comenzarán este domingo 16 de noviembre

Ya se está trabajando en un nuevo thriller ambientado en el Vaticano, basado en una historia real, según Variety. ¡Santo Subito! (¡Santo ya!) seguirá al P. Joseph Murolo, un sacerdote estadounidense al que el Vaticano pidió actuar como “abogado del diablo” en la investigación de la vida del Papa Juan Pablo II y su camino hacia la santidad.

¿Cómo puedo amar sin miedo?, ¿Cómo puedo construir relaciones duraderas en tiempos acelerados?, ¿Qué lugar tiene Dios en mi búsqueda de felicidad y amor?, son sólo algunas de las preguntas a las que responderá en Ecuador Christopher West, uno de los más influyentes expertos en la teología del cuerpo de San Juan Pablo II.

Este sábado, el Papa León XIV recibió en audiencia a Mons. Pierre Goudreault, Obispo de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière y presidente de la Conferencia Canadiense de Obispos Católicos

CNA Staff, Nov 15, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA).

The Archdiocese of Denver and a coalition of Catholic preschools are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow them to access a Colorado universal preschool program.

The petition to the high court comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled in September that Colorado may continue to exclude Catholic preschools from its Universal Preschool Program because of their religious beliefs.

Catholic preschools in Denver ask teachers and families to sign a pledge promising to uphold their religious mission, including teachings on sexuality and gender identity. The Colorado preschool program’s nondiscrimination clause, however, requires schools to uphold provisions on sexual orientation and “gender identity.”

Two Catholic parish preschools and the Denver Archdiocese first filed suit in August 2023 against the requirement.

In a Nov. 14 press release, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty — which has represented the schools and the archdiocese in the lawsuit — said the Catholic schools “are asking the Supreme Court to ensure that Colorado makes good on its promise of universal preschool.”

“Colorado is picking winners and losers based on the content of their religious beliefs,” Nick Reaves, a senior lawyer at Becket, said in the release. 

“That sort of religious discrimination flies in the face of our nation’s traditions and decades of Supreme Court rulings,” he said. “We’re asking the court to step in and make sure ‘universal’ preschool really is universal.” 

Scott Elmer, who serves as chief mission officer for the Denver Archdiocese, said the schools are seeking “the ability to offer families who choose a Catholic education the same access to free preschool services that’s available at thousands of other preschools across Colorado.”

Becket in its press release said the Colorado rules have had a “predictable effect” in which “enrollment at Catholic preschools has swiftly declined, while two Catholic preschools have shuttered their doors.”

The law group said the lower court rulings go against recent Supreme Court decisions on religious freedom, including Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, which held that the Montana Constitution’s bar on public funding of religious institutions violated the First Amendment.

In May the Supreme Court declined to rule in a contentious case involving what was proposed to be the nation’s first religious charter school, leaving untouched a lower court ruling that forbade the Oklahoma Catholic institution from accessing state funds.

CNA Staff, Nov 15, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA).

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that aims to improve the nation’s foster care system, including the modernization of the current child welfare system, the development of partnerships with private sector organizations, and prioritizing the participation of those with sincerely held religious beliefs.

The executive order issued Nov. 13 states that the Trump administration is “dedicated to empowering mothers and fathers to raise their children in safe and loving homes.”

The order says current problems with the foster care system include overworked caseworkers, antiquated information systems, and policies that “prohibit qualified families from serving children in need as foster and adoptive parents because of their sincerely-held religious beliefs or adherence to basic biological truths.”

The legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has represented Christian families who were barred from serving as foster parents because of their faith, suing on behalf of Brian and Katy Wuoti and Bryan and Rebecca Gantt after the Vermont Department for Children and Families informed the two families that their belief that persons cannot change biological sex and that marriage is only between a man and a woman precluded them from serving as foster parents in the state.

Despite describing the Wuotis and the Gantts as “amazing,” “wonderful,” and “welcoming,” state officials revoked the couples’ foster care licenses after they expressed those beliefs. The state said these beliefs made them “unqualified” to parent any child, regardless of the child’s age, beliefs, or identity. 

ADF Senior Counsel Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse, who represents the Wuotis, Gantts, and other Christian families who are prohibited from fostering in lawsuits in Massachusetts, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington, told CNA that he hopes the executive order will lead to the states “prioritizing the best interests of children rather than ideological agendas.”

In the face of shortages of foster families, he said the states should be “pursuing a big tent, welcoming as many loving families as possible. But they’re doing the opposite while children who need foster care are sleeping in unlicensed  group homes, police stations, and hospitals.” 

Trump’s executive order directs the department of Health and Human Services, the White House Faith Office, and the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs to “take appropriate action to address state and local policies and practices that inappropriately prohibit participation in federally-funded child-welfare programs by qualified individuals or organizations based upon their sincerely-held religious beliefs or moral convictions.” 

It also directs those agencies to “increase partnerships between agencies and faith-based organizations and houses of worship to serve families” involved with the foster care system. 

Widmalm-Delphonse told CNA it is “difficult to say how the states will respond” to the executive order, indicating that he hopes either the order or the pending lawsuits will lead to changes in their “discriminatory” policies against families of faith.  

“The path the states should take is obvious: It’s a win-win when you open up foster care to people of faith and put the interests of children first,” he said.

El Papa León XIV nombro al Cardenal Michael Czerny, S.J., Prefecto del Dicasterio para el Servicio del Desarrollo Humano Integral, su Enviado Especial a un santuario mariano en Chiclayo (Perú), para la Jornada Mundial del Enfermo 2026.