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Monsignor Melchor Sánchez de Toca, relator of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. / Credit: Diocese of Vitoria ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 1, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Speaking at the School of Theology of Northern Spain in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the relator for the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Monsignor Melchor Sánchez de…
Pope Leo XIV gives a blessing to all those present at his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 1, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 1, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday expressed his concern over the recent violent clashes between law enforcement and young protesters…
Italian Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu (right) waits prior to the start of a consistory during which 20 new cardinals are to be created by Pope Francis on Aug. 27, 2022, in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. / Credit: ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images Vatican City, Oct 1, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). Pope Leo…
Nigerian security officers during a military operation ahead of the gubernatorial elections in Benin City, Edo, Nigeria, on Sept. 17, 2020. / Credit: Oluwafemi Dawodu/Shutterstock ACI Africa, Oct 1, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Testimonies of Nigerians kidnapped by jihadist Fulani herdsmen have revealed that hundreds of Christians are still being held by the Islamist…
Pope Leo XIV prays during his general audience on Sept. 24, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 1, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of October is for collaboration between different religious traditions. In a video released Sept. 30,…
St. Thérèse of Lisieux. / Credit: Public domain CNA Staff, Oct 1, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA). The Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, also known as the Little Flower, on Oct. 1. Born to Zelie and Louis Martin in 1873 — both canonized saints — Thérèse was the youngest of five…
U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Illinois. / Credit: Public domain CNA Staff, Sep 30, 2025 / 20:02 pm (CNA). U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, will decline an award from the Archdiocese of Chicago after global backlash over his strong pro-abortion views that included comments from Pope Leo XIV and criticism from U.S. bishops. Chicago archbishop Cardinal…
Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for his general audience on Sept.24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Sep 30, 2025 / 15:36 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV responded to controversy over the Chicago cardinal’s plans to honor a Catholic U.S. senator who supports legalized abortion,…
null / Credit: crystal51/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 30, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA). China tries to exert total control over religion, and the U.S. Department of State should redesignate China as a “country of particular concern” regarding religious freedom, according to reports by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). USCIRF, a…
Brooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan carries the thurible around the altar inside Louis Armstrong Stadium on April 20, 2024. / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 30, 2025 / 17:32 pm (CNA). Brooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan is calling on the faithful to contact New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to oppose the assisted suicide legislation that…
