Catholic bishops to join pilgrimage of peace to Japan on anniversary of atomic bombings — By: Catholic News Agency

The Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan. / Credit: Oilstreet via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.5) CNA Staff, Jul 29, 2025 / 15:29 pm (CNA). Eighty years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, several Catholic cardinals and archbishops will visit Japan for a pilgrimage of peace this August. Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago; Cardinal Robert…

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Canon law expert Edward Peters is third faculty member fired by Detroit archbishop — By: Catholic News Agency

Canon law professor Edward Peters had taught at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit since 2005. / Credit: Photo courtesy of CanonLaw.info National Catholic Register, Jul 29, 2025 / 15:59 pm (CNA). Canon law professor Edward Peters is the third faculty member at Detroit’s seminary to announce that he has been fired by Archbishop Edward…

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Cardinal Tagle at influencers jubilee: ‘Love cannot be generated by an algorithm’ — By: Catholic News Agency

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, presides over the Mass for the Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers on July 29, 2025, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Jul 29, 2025 / 13:52 pm (CNA). Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle urged Catholic content creators…

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Middle Eastern influencers join Church’s first digital missionary jubilee — By: Catholic News Agency

Digital missionaries and Catholic influencers participate in the Mass for the Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers on July 29, 2025, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA ACI MENA, Jul 29, 2025 / 14:23 pm (CNA). For the first time in its history, the Church is celebrating a jubilee…

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Thousands of Vietnamese Catholics gather in Missouri for Marian pilgrimage — By: Catholic News Agency

Marian Days procession and closing Mass in 2023 in Carthage, Missouri. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Mother of the Redeemer Photography Group Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 29, 2025 / 12:43 pm (CNA). Every summer, the small city of Carthage, Missouri, becomes a booming landmark of religion and culture as tens of thousands of pilgrims gather…

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Vatican permits exclusively private devotion for alleged apparitions at Italian mountain — By: Catholic News Agency

The Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio, the seat of the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. / Credit: Jim McIntosh via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0) Vatican City, Jul 29, 2025 / 10:47 am (CNA). The Vatican’s doctrinal office has expressed reservations about an alleged Marian apparition site in southern Italy, permitting only private devotion and…

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Lebanese twin brothers turn tragedy into a call to action for Middle East Christians — By: Catholic News Agency

Charbel and Giovanni Lteif, 20-year-old Maronite Lebanese twin brothers, have built a Christian social media platform in just one year, expanding across multiple platforms to reach global Christian audiences. Their digital work has earned them acceptance into EWTN’s Summer Academy in Rome. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Charbel and Giovanni Lteif ACI MENA, Jul 29,…

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