Pope Francis gives an extraordianry urbi et orbi blessing in St. Peter’s Square, March 27, 2020. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Mar 27, 2025 / 19:00 pm (CNA). Pope Francis’ historic “Statio Orbis” blessing during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic remains relevant for the Church as it did five years ago. Before an…

Pope Francis presides at Palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican on March 24, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Mar 27, 2025 / 18:00 pm (CNA). The Vatican has published the official calendar of liturgical celebrations planned for Holy Week, but it has not clarified whether Pope Francis will preside. The pontiff was discharged…

SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser speaks in front of the Capitol on March 27, 2025, in Washington, D.C. “This movement is completely unified in its first priority, and that is to defund big abortion in this reconciliation bill,” she said. / Credit: Tessa Gervasini/CNA Washington D.C., Mar 27, 2025 / 18:30 pm (CNA). More…

A special memorial Mass was held for Mother Angelica, the foundress of EWTN, in Rome on Thursday, March 27, 2025, in the Church of Santo Spirito in Sassia near the Vatican, marking the ninth anniversary of her death in 2016. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Mar 27, 2025 / 15:20 pm (CNA). A special…

Kansas Capitol building in Topeka. / Credit: Dave Newman/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Mar 27, 2025 / 15:50 pm (CNA). Amid plans for a blasphemous “black mass” at the Kansas Capitol building set to take place on March 28, Catholics in the state and elsewhere are urging a prayerful, peaceful response, the centerpiece of which will be…

A relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a fragment of his pericardium, visits the U.S. at Holy Family Parish in Queens, New York, on April 6, 2022. / Credit: Photo courtesy DeSales Media Vatican City, Mar 27, 2025 / 16:25 pm (CNA). Italian prosecutors are investigating the illegal online sale of alleged relics of Blessed Carlo…