Thousands of volunteers in colorful safety vests fill St. Peter’s Square during the Jubilee of Volunteers at the Vatican on Mar. 9, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Mar 9, 2025 / 13:20 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Sunday thanked volunteers for the closeness and tenderness they show others in need of their care….

A balloon with an image of Pope Francis is pictured outside the Gemelli University Hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalized with pneumonia, in Rome on March 3, 2025. Pope Francis suffered two new breathing attacks on March 3, 2025, the Vatican said, as the 88-year-old pontiff struggles to recover from pneumonia. / Credit: Photo by…

Mexico City cathedral. / Diego Grandi/Shutterstock. Mexico City Newsroom, Mar 9, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). The Church in Mexico warned this week about the “manifestations of death that have been taking place in our country,” which, according to the bishops, “threaten human dignity, dehumanize our coexistence, and leave a deep wound in the conscience…

Mother Angelica. / Credit: EWTN ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 9, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). With the season of Lent, Catholics around the world have entered into a time of prayer, almsgiving, and penance in preparation for Holy Week. There are many and varied sacrifices that the faithful choose to adopt during these days, but…

Left: Abbot Placid Solari, chancellor of Belmont Abbey College, and Bishop Michael Martin, bishop of the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, tour the Belmont House and other facilities on Feb. 28, 2025. Right: The Belmont House and other properties in Washington, D.C., under construction and renovation on the morning of Feb. 28, 2025. / Credit:…