Bishop Robert Barron delivers the keynote address at the Jubilee of Youth’s National U.S. Pilgrim Gathering on July 30, 2025, at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA CNA Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 17:00 pm (CNA). Word on Fire announced Monday that a new documentary by Bishop…

Damage after the Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut explosion. / Credit: Mehr News Agency, CC BY SA 4.0 ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 17:31 pm (CNA). With a silent march, moving testimonies, and the symbolic planting of 75 trees in honor of the victims, Lebanon commemorated on Aug. 4 the fifth anniversary of the…

Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims during his general audience on July 30, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 18:02 pm (CNA). In a new gesture of closeness to the victims of irregular migration, Pope Leo XIV expressed his “profound sorrow” for the…

Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney told a packed basilica of young jubilee pilgrims in Rome on Aug. 4, 2025, that holy relics are “not just a quirky Catholic thing — they are a quirky God thing.” / Credit: Ivanka Ranic/Archdiocese of Sydney Vatican City, Aug 4, 2025 / 16:29 pm (CNA). Standing before the casket…