A Jesuit priest fluent in 13 languages, Father Mitch Pacwa hosts several programs on EWTN, including “EWTN Live.” / Credit: EWTN Birmingham, Ala., Aug 8, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Edith Stein, the Jewish woman who would become St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was murdered in the gas chamber at the Auschwitz concentration camp…

St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. / Credit: Babouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 8, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). According to Father Francisco Javier Calvo, Pope Leo XIV’s recent announcement that St. John Henry Newman will be declared a doctor of the Church represents…

Statues of St. Michael and St. Florian. / Credit: Office of Mayor Thomas Koch National Catholic Register, Aug 8, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). A Massachusetts mayor is going to bat for including statues of two Catholic saints on the city’s new public safety building, saying he picked them because of their importance to police…

“St. Dominic of Guzman” by Claudio Coello, circa 1685. / Credit: Claudio Coello, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Rome Newsroom, Aug 8, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). The first image to greet visitors to the basilica containing the tomb of St. Dominic in Bologna, Italy, is a mosaic of the saint next to a dog…