Tyler Arnold

Tyler Arnold is a staff reporter for Catholic News Agency, based in EWTN News’ Washington Bureau. He previously worked at The Center Square and has been published in a variety of outlets, including The Associated Press, National Review, The American Conservative, and The Federalist.

Articles by Tyler Arnold

Livia Tossici-Bolt is awaiting a verdict in her case in which she was charged with violating a “buffer zone” that restricts pro-life speech near abortion clinics. Credit: Photo courtesy of ADF International

U.S. State Department ‘monitoring’ UK government arrest of pro-life advocate

Apr 1, 2025 / 17:56 pm

A bureau of the U.S. Department of State announced it is “monitoring” an arrest of a pro-life advocate in the United Kingdom.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance waves to the crowd at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Credit: EWTN News/Screenshot

Report: Vice President JD Vance intends to visit Rome at Easter

Apr 1, 2025 / 16:49 pm

Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the vice president plans to arrive in Rome on Good Friday, April 18, and depart from the city on Easter Sunday, April 20.

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U.S. Supreme Court examines Wisconsin’s denial of Catholic charity tax exemption

Mar 31, 2025 / 16:40 pm

U.S. Supreme Court justices across ideological lines expressed concerns about a Wisconsin agency’s refusal to legally recognize a Catholic charity as a religious organization.

New York official blocks Texas order against doctor who mailed abortion pills into state

Mar 28, 2025 / 16:45 pm

Taylor Bruck will not file the summary judgment ordered against abortion doctor Margaret Daley Carpenter for allegedly providing abortion pills to women in Texas via mail.

The Philippines has the highest adult Christian faith retention rate in the world, according to Pew Research. Credit: icosha/Shutterstock

Pew Research: Most Christians raised in the faith hold onto it in adulthood

Mar 28, 2025 / 12:45 pm

Surveys in about three dozen countries compiled by the Pew Research Center found that most Christians who are raised in the faith hold onto it in adulthood.

The University of Notre Dame. Credit: Grindstone Media Group/Shutterstock

University of Notre Dame commencement departs from presidential tradition

Mar 27, 2025 / 08:00 am

Since the 1970s, Notre Dame has routinely invited newly inaugurated presidents to deliver the university’s commencement address.

Pro-life groups praise Trump plan to cut taxpayer funds for Planned Parenthood

Mar 26, 2025 / 17:45 pm

Officials are mulling an immediate freeze of $27.5 million from the Department of Health and Human Services Title X Family Planning Services Program.

“It has been disappointing to see how seldom a CPC designation has resulted in real consequences for those responsible for religious freedom violations,” U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Chairman Stephen Schneck told CNA. Credit: U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Public Hearing/Screenshot

Commission urges Trump to take action against governments that violate religious liberty

Mar 26, 2025 / 09:30 am

“Make appropriate policy changes to demonstrate meaningful consequences and encourage positive change,” the USCIRF report recommends.

Thousands particpate in a Eucharistic procession sponsored by the Napa Institute through the streets of Manhattan in New York City on Oct. 15, 2024. Credit: Jeffrey Bruno

Napa Institute fosters Catholic-Protestant collaboration on common efforts

Mar 26, 2025 / 07:00 am

Earlier this month, Napa Institute Board Chairman Tim Busch hosted a meeting among 15 Catholic and Protestant faith leaders for the organization’s first Ecumenical Forum.

Zachary Liberto, 30, was arrested March 22, 2025, and charged with commissioning an act of terrorism for allegedly sending an email to a member of the staff at St. Louis Catholic Church in Memphis, Tennessee, expressing his intent to “butcher” Catholics with a machete. Credit: Shelby County Sheriff’s Office

Memphis police arrest man accused of threatening to ‘butcher’ Catholics with machete

Mar 25, 2025 / 16:45 pm

Zachary Liberto, who lives in Memphis, was charged with commissioning an act of terrorism for allegedly sending the email to a member of the parish staff.

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden. Credit: U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Dustin Jordan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

South Dakota governor signs bill to keep men out of girls’ locker rooms, restrooms

Mar 21, 2025 / 16:30 pm

“South Dakota is a place where common sense values remain common, and these bills reinforce that fact,” South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden said.

Idaho Capitol in Boise. Credit: Through the Lens of Life/Shutterstock

Idaho governor signs bill to protect religious, conscience rights of doctors and nurses

Mar 21, 2025 / 14:00 pm

The new law establishes that Idaho recognizes “that the right of conscience is a fundamental and inalienable right.”

Bill banning men from women’s showers, spaces in jails signed into law in Mississippi

Mar 21, 2025 / 13:30 pm

The legislation prohibits men who self-identify as transgender women from accessing women’s changing rooms, restrooms, showers, sleeping quarters, and other facilities.

Sister Mary Casey O’Connor, SV, and her twin sister, Casey Gunning, who has Down syndrome, speak at the March for Life Rally in 2023. Credit: Screenshot EWTN YouTube

World Down Syndrome Day: How the Church works to reach Catholics with disabilities

Mar 21, 2025 / 09:45 am

March 21 marks World Down Syndrome Day — a global awareness day recognized by the United Nations to advocate for the legal rights of people with Down syndrome.

State capitol in Dover, Delaware. Credit: Jon Bilous/Shutterstock

Delaware halts enforcement of law targeting pro-life pregnancy centers

Mar 19, 2025 / 17:05 pm

Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings agreed to a March 17 court order that requires the state to stop any enforcement of the mandate.

Catholics for Catholics held its first event at Mar-a-Lago in 2024. Credit: Courtesy of John Yep

Catholic clergy, laypeople to gather for prayer at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

Mar 19, 2025 / 08:49 am

“The goal of this event is to pray — and to pray in a specifically Catholic way,” Catholics for Catholics President John Yep told CNA.

Beverly Jacobson and her daughter Verity. Credit: Melissa Pennington

‘This baby is a gift’: Trisomy 18 Awareness Day reminds us that every life is sacred

Mar 18, 2025 / 14:10 pm

March 18 is Trisomy 18 Awareness Day. The condition, also called Edwards syndrome, occurs when a person has an extra chromosome 18.

Attendees visit vendors at the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia’s 2025 “From Inclusion to Belonging Conference” on March 25, 2025. Credit: Porto Charities

‘From Inclusion to Belonging’ conference welcomes Catholics with disabilities

Mar 17, 2025 / 07:00 am

The “From Inclusion to Belonging Conference” focused on plans for the future as those with disabilities prepare for adult life out of high school.

Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland, Oregon, processes out of the Church of Our Lady of Providence after Mass during a Rise Up Encounter of World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, on Aug. 4, 2023. Credit: Giulio Capece/EWTN News

Archbishop Sample rebukes ‘celebration of death’ as Oregon governor honors abortionists

Mar 14, 2025 / 14:10 pm

“There are moments when words fail,” Portland Archbishop Alexander Sample wrote in a letter that also offered a pastoral teaching about the sanctity of human life.

Catholic bishop warns against ‘culture of death’ as Idaho backs firing squad executions

Mar 13, 2025 / 17:50 pm

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by firing squad is the primary form of execution.