A shanty town in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in November 2013. / Ilona Budzbon/Aid to the Church in Need. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 31, 2025 / 11:30 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week. Sierra Leone limits physical contact at Mass amid mpox outbreak Freetown Archbishop Edward Tamba Charles…
Above: Caspar David Friedrich‘s Monk by the Sea (ca. 1808). Friedrich was influenced by Novalis’s aesthetic theories. Last year, Angelico Press published one of the most intriguing theoretical texts by the poetic genius of 18th-century Germany, Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772–1801), better known under the pen name Novalis. Titled Christendom or Europe? Source…
El Salvador’s massive Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT, by its Spanish acronym). / Credit: Courtesy of Office of the President of El Salvador, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, May 31, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). As El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele marks his sixth anniversary in office, the country’s Catholic bishops have published a…
Antonia Salzano Acutis speaks to the faithful in New York City on Thursday, May 29, 2025 / Credit: Sabrina Ferrisi New York City, N.Y., May 31, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). Antonia Salzano Acutis, the mother of soon-to-be canonized Carlo Acutis, spoke to a capacity crowd of more than 2,500 people at St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
Just a mention of Lough Derg summons tales of sleep deprivation, discomfort, and hunger, but it’s a deeply spiritual place of renewal and hope, from which faithful pilgrims often emerge reborn through the rituals of self-purification. / Credit: Lough Derg Dublin, Ireland, May 31, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). This weekend, the Jubilee of Hope…
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The dome of the Cathedral of St. Bavo in Haarlem, the Netherlands. / Credit: Frank de ruyter via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0 NL) Vatican City, May 31, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). The Church in the Netherlands is gaining momentum thanks to the “creative minority” of young people rediscovering the Catholic faith, Cardinal Willem Eijk…
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The garden created at Mepkin Abbey is a way to honor and recognize the enslaved who lived and died on the property for 100 years. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Mepkin Abbey Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 31, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). On a piece of land in South Carolina where hundreds of Indigenous and…
From the Roman office of the feast. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of Pope St. Leo the Great. 2nd on the Ascension. And so the seen Presence of our Redeemer in the Body was changed for…
