Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims the closing Mass of the Jubilee of Youth on Aug. 3, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 5, 2025 / 14:46 pm (CNA). Results of a new Gallup poll reveal that Americans have a much more favorable view of Pope Leo XIV than a number of…

A picture shows a view of a damaged facade of the Holy Family Church on July 18, 2025, a day after it was hit in an Israeli strike in Gaza City on July 17. / Credit: OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 5, 2025 / 15:16 pm (CNA). The American Jewish Committee…

Pope Leo XIV approaches Tor Vergata in Rome by helicopter on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Aug 5, 2025 / 15:46 pm (CNA). Roughly 1 million young adults from around the world filled the streets of Rome for the Jubilee of Youth, which took place July 28 to Aug. 3,…

Pope Leo XIV at Tor Vergata during the final Mass of the Jubilee of Youth on Aug. 3, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 5, 2025 / 16:16 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV encouraged the participants of the Medjugorje youth festival to unite the flames of their hearts so that this…

From the Irish College building in Salamanca, the Colegio Arzobispo Fonseca. / Credit: Patrick J. Passmore Dublin, Ireland, Aug 5, 2025 / 12:28 pm (CNA). On Aug. 4, 1936, the last seminarians at the Irish College in Salamanca, Spain, were put on a British Navy destroyer from the Irish College’s summer coastal retreat in Pendueles…

Father Andreas Frick (left) and a CRS official during the SECAM plenary assembly in Rwanda held July 30 to Aug. 4, 2025. / Credit: ACI Africa ACI Africa, Aug 5, 2025 / 13:11 pm (CNA). Overseas development agencies, including Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Misereor — the development agency of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of…