Hannah Hiester

1 week ago | catholicvote.org | Hannah Hiester

CV NEWS FEED // The prices of gas, groceries, electronics, and air travel are dropping, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI). As CNBC reported this week, data show that between March 2024 and March 2025, the most deflated categories of goods tracked by the CPI included gas (down almost 10%), and dishes and flatware (down nearly 11%). CNBC also noted that gas fell roughly 6% between February and March, while crude oil prices, which affect the price of gas, went down 22% in the last year.

1 week ago | catholicvote.org | Hannah Hiester

CV NEWS FEED // Amid rising numbers of Catholic converts, a Catholic professor at Word on Fire and Loyola Marymount University wrote that the Church is becoming increasingly attractive to young people around the world because it is real and cannot be digitized. Christopher Kaczor wrote in an article for Word on Fire that countries around the world, including Austria, Belgium, Canada, Mongolia, Sweden, and England, are seeing record numbers of young adult converts.

1 week ago | catholicvote.org | Hannah Hiester

CV NEWS FEED // President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance took to social media May 8 to congratulate Pope Leo XIV, the newly elected pontiff and first North American pope. Formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago native now assumes the role of spiritual leader for more than a billion Catholics worldwide. “Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope,” Trump posted on social media.

1 week ago | catholicvote.org | Hannah Hiester

CV NEWS FEED // A national confraternity of priests and deacons announced May 6 it opposes a recent Washington law that requires priests to break the seal of confession if they learn during the sacrament that a penitent has committed child sex abuse. The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy stated in a news release that the law unconstitutionally violates Catholics’ religious freedom.

1 week ago | catholicvote.org | Hannah Hiester

CV NEWS FEED // Catholics would do well to take advantage of faith-based news, organizations, and social media that are now the new public square, according to a diocesan social media specialist. Corbin Hubbell, social media coordinator for the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, wrote for the diocesan newspaper, Southern Nebraska Register, that social media and a “digital timeline” can be used as helpful tools despite the associations of social media with brain rot, echo chambers, addiction, and more.