Pope Leo XIV is seen here at the Jubilee of Youth on August 3, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 11:48 am (CNA). On the occasion of the 99th World Mission Day, to be celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 19, with the theme “Missionaries of Hope among all Peoples,” the…

Scene from the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, Indiana. / Credit: EWTN News in Depth/Screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 18, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Several hymns were temporarily banned last year in the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri after being found “to be insufficient in sound doctrine,” with the action raising questions about…

Pope Leo XIV hugs a man during the Jubilee of Roma, Sinti, and Travelers on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 18, 2025 / 13:10 pm (CNA). At the Vatican’s Jubilee of Roma, Sinti, and Travelers, Pope Leo XIV praised pilgrims for their deep trust in God despite centuries of…

null / Credit: vmargineanu/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 14:15 pm (CNA). Officials in New Jersey have charged a former parish financial director with the theft of more than half a million dollars in church funds. Joseph Manzi has been charged with second-degree theft by unlawful taking after he allegedly stole hundreds of thousands…

Pope Leo XIV will canonize seven new saints on Sunday including an Italian lawyer who renounced Satanism and became “an apostle of the Rosary,” a martyred Armenian archbishop, and a Venezuelan considered the “doctor of the poor.” Banners of the new saints are on display on St. Peter’s Basilica for all to see in St….

Father Custodio Ballester, a Spanish priest, was acquitted of hate crimes, along with another priest and a journalist. / Credit: Courtesy of HazteOir.org ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 06:30 am (CNA). Two priests and a journalist who were tried for criticizing radical Islam have been acquitted by the Provincial Court of Malaga in…