Canadian sculptor Timothy P. Schmalz poses next to his sculpture on the theme of refugees and migration, “Angels Unawares,” in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Mar 3, 2025 / 12:20 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Monday announced the theme for the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees:…

Sister Giustina Olha Holubets, SSMI, (far right) receives the “Guardian of Life” award from Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia of the Pontifical Academy for Life at a press conference in the Holy See Press Office on March 3, 2025. / Credit: Hannah Brockhaus/CNA Vatican City, Mar 3, 2025 / 12:50 pm (CNA). The Vatican’s Academy for Life…

St. Katharine Drexel was born in 1858 to a wealthy family in Philadelphia. Throughout her life, her chief motivation was to help more souls know and love Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament to to serve Native Americans and African Americans. Mother Drexel opened mission churches and boarding schools for Black and Native American children throughout…

A Vatican flag waves over the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA Vatican City, Mar 3, 2025 / 11:50 am (CNA). Pope Francis addressed what he called a “planetary crisis” that is adversely affecting the world in multiple ways in a message Monday to the general assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life….

The chapel at Gemelli Hosptial in Rome bears the name and contains a relic of another pope who knew these corridors well: St. John Paul II. The Polish pontiff was hospitalized here multiple times, including after an assassination attempt in 1981. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA CNA Newsroom, Mar 3, 2025 / 06:44 am (CNA). Pope…