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null / Credit: Ivan Galashchuk/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 14, 2025 / 13:38 pm (CNA). A recent study found that among adults who attend Christian worship at least monthly, 68% agreed marriage is between one man and one woman, but only 46% defined “family” in corresponding terms of a husband and wife, their children, and…
Pope Leo XIV greets a baby at his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 14, 2025 / 08:41 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has sent 5,000 doses of antibiotics to the Gaza Strip in a humanitarian gesture aimed primarily at children…
Holy Family Church in Booneville, Kentucky, with solar panels implemented as part of the Catholic Diocese of Lexington’s goal of net zero emissions. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Catholic Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 14, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Diocese of Lexington has developed an ambitious plan to make…
Cardinal Pietro Parolin greets the parents of St. Carlo Acutis before Mass at Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Assisi, Italy, on Oct. 12, 2025. / Credit: Diocese of Assisi ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 13, 2025 / 16:13 pm (CNA). In a Mass marking the first liturgical memorial of St. Carlo Acutis, who was canonized…
The main altar at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, which was desecrated on Oct. 10, 2025. / Credit: Jorge Royan (CC BY-SA 3.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 13, 2025 / 17:43 pm (CNA). Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica and vicar general of the pope for Vatican City, presided Oct. 13 over a…
St. Carlo Acutis. / Credit: carloacutis.com ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 13, 2025 / 14:42 pm (CNA). A fire this weekend severely damaged the 17th-century Bernaga Monastery outside of Milan in northern Italy, forcing 21 cloistered nuns to flee the blaze. The fire broke out around 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 11 as the nuns — part…
Bishop Sosthène Ayikuli Udjuwa is the apostolic administrator of the Congolese Wamba Diocese. / Credit: Radio Moto ACI Africa, Oct 13, 2025 / 15:12 pm (CNA). The Vatican Dicastery for Evangelization has suspended the formation of seminarians in the Diocese of Wamba in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), citing a “difficult ecclesial environment,” which…
Father Marko Rupnik, SJ, in an interview with EWTN in 2020. / Credit: EWTN Vatican City, Oct 13, 2025 / 12:23 pm (CNA). The Vatican’s doctrine office announced Monday that a panel of five judges has been nominated to decide the disciplinary case against Father Marko Rupnik, accused of the sexual and psychological abuse of…
Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Jubilee of Marian Spirituality on Oct. 12, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 13, 2025 / 14:12 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV called on Catholics to support missionaries on World Mission Day, which will be celebrated on…
Christopher Columbus, by Sebastiano del Piombo, 1519. / Credit: Public domain Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 13, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA). President Donald Trump renewed the focus of Columbus Day to be celebrated on the second Monday of October, reclaiming the explorer’s “extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue,” according to the president’s proclamation….
