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Bishop Robert Barron delivers the keynote address at the Jubilee of Youth’s National U.S. Pilgrim Gathering on July 30, 2025, at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA CNA Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 17:00 pm (CNA). Word on Fire announced Monday that a new documentary by Bishop…
Damage after the Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut explosion. / Credit: Mehr News Agency, CC BY SA 4.0 ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 17:31 pm (CNA). With a silent march, moving testimonies, and the symbolic planting of 75 trees in honor of the victims, Lebanon commemorated on Aug. 4 the fifth anniversary of the…
Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims during his general audience on July 30, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 18:02 pm (CNA). In a new gesture of closeness to the victims of irregular migration, Pope Leo XIV expressed his “profound sorrow” for the…
Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney told a packed basilica of young jubilee pilgrims in Rome on Aug. 4, 2025, that holy relics are “not just a quirky Catholic thing — they are a quirky God thing.” / Credit: Ivanka Ranic/Archdiocese of Sydney Vatican City, Aug 4, 2025 / 16:29 pm (CNA). Standing before the casket…
The Durg railway station in Chhattisgarh, site of the July 25, 2025, arrest of two nuns. / Credit: Rajbhatt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 4, 2025 / 14:54 pm (CNA). Two Catholic nuns who were arrested at a train station in central India have been released on bail after spending…
Young Korean pilgrims gather for Mass during the Jubilee of Youth in the Basilica of San Crisogono in Trastevere offered by Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung on July 31, 2025. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Vatican City, Aug 4, 2025 / 12:05 pm (CNA). The next World Youth Day, scheduled for Aug. 3–8, 2027, will mark a…
Pope Leo XIV prays during Mass for more than 1 million young pilgrims at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, in Rome’s outskirts, on Aug. 3, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA CNA Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 13:22 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of August is for mutual coexistence. In…
Rows of bunk beds line the interior of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility in the Florida Everglades, a repurposed training center now designated for holding immigrants. President Donald Trump appears in the background during a July 1, 2025, visit to the site. / Credit: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C….
Archbishop Eamon Martin. / Credit: Irish Jesuits, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 14:23 pm (CNA). In a moving message, Eamon Martin, primate of Ireland and archbishop of Armagh, commemorated St. John Vianney, the patron saint of all priests and especially parish priests, whose memorial is celebrated Aug….
St. John Vianney. / Credit: Herwig Reidlinger via Wikimedia Commons CC 3.0 CNA Newsroom, Aug 4, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). A century after the patron saint of priests, St. John Vianney, died on Aug. 4, 1859, Pope John XXIII reflected on the life of the saint and what it means to be a holy…
