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…
A DACA protest sign is waved outside of the White House. / null CNA Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) released an update this week on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program highlighting the threat a looming court order may pose to the legal…
Louis and Zelie Martin. Public Domain image. / null Vatican City, Oct 18, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). At a time when the world offers “many counter-examples” of what a healthy marriage should look like, Pope Leo XIV has urged couples to look to Saints Louis and Zélie Martin — the parents of St. Thérèse…
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When this Sunday comes around, with its snappy Collect, I am minded of the early fourth-century martyr St. Expeditus. The Latin text of the Collect reads: Omnipotens et misericors Deus, universa nobis adversantia propitiatus exclude: ut mente et corpore pariter expediti, quae tua sunt, liberis mentibus exsequamur. Translated slavishly: Almighty and merciful God, having been…
[ St. Bartolo Longo ] Today, the Pope canonized former Satanist priest Bartolo Longo at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. At Bartolo’s Satanic “ordination,” the “walls of the room shook and disembodied screams terrified those in attendance.” As a satanic priest, he was involved with seances, drugs and orgies. He eventually became paranoid and miserable,…
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Of all the many dark centuries in the history of Christendom, there is no denying that the 20th century was one of the darkest. It was also the deadliest. In terms of the sheer body count, the last century, with its wars of irreligion, fought with industrialized weapons of mass destruction, was the most murderous…
The painting St. Luke the Evangelist in the church Iglesia El Buen Pastor by Miguel Vaguer (1959). / Credit: Renata Sedmakova/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). On Oct. 18, Catholics and other Christians around the world celebrate the feast of St. Luke, the physician and companion of St. Paul whose Gospel…
