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Pope Leo waving at the crowds gathered on St. Peter’s Square for the Jubilee for Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly, June 1, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Jun 1, 2025 / 07:31 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV declared families “the cradle of the future of humanity” as he celebrated Mass for thousands…
Father Robert Bedard – more commonly known as Father Bob – was a priest for the Diocese of Ottawa in Canada and the founder of the Companions of the Cross. / Credit: Companions of the Cross CNA Staff, Jun 1, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Father Bob Bedard, a priest in the Diocese of Ottawa…
Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful in St. Peter’s Basilica, May 31, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, May 31, 2025 / 17:58 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has praised an international bioethics summit in Rome for advancing an “authentically human” approach to science, urging researchers to pursue truth grounded in the dignity of…
The faithful march in the Drexel Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, Tulsa, Friday, May 30, 2025 / Credit: 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrims CNA Newsroom, May 31, 2025 / 17:15 pm (CNA). Eucharistic pilgrims in Oklahoma are being urged by leaders to respond to anti-Catholic protests during pilgrimages and processions with peace, humility and prayer. …
Pope Leo XIV delivers his homily during the ordination of 11 new priests for the Diocese of Rome at St. Peter’s Basilica on May 31, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, May 31, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV ordained 11 new priests for the Diocese of Rome on Saturday during a…
In the morning, the Holy Blood is venerated in Saint Salvator Cathedral during a Eucharistic celebration, with Archbishop of Tehran Cardinal Mathieu concelebrating. Then during the procession, he carries the reliquary for part of the route. May 28, 2025. / Credit: Thomas P. Reiter Bruges, Belgium, May 31, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA). Over 45,000…
A shanty town in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in November 2013. / Ilona Budzbon/Aid to the Church in Need. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 31, 2025 / 11:30 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week. Sierra Leone limits physical contact at Mass amid mpox outbreak Freetown Archbishop Edward Tamba Charles…
El Salvador’s massive Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT, by its Spanish acronym). / Credit: Courtesy of Office of the President of El Salvador, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, May 31, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). As El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele marks his sixth anniversary in office, the country’s Catholic bishops have published a…
Antonia Salzano Acutis speaks to the faithful in New York City on Thursday, May 29, 2025 / Credit: Sabrina Ferrisi New York City, N.Y., May 31, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). Antonia Salzano Acutis, the mother of soon-to-be canonized Carlo Acutis, spoke to a capacity crowd of more than 2,500 people at St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
Just a mention of Lough Derg summons tales of sleep deprivation, discomfort, and hunger, but it’s a deeply spiritual place of renewal and hope, from which faithful pilgrims often emerge reborn through the rituals of self-purification. / Credit: Lough Derg Dublin, Ireland, May 31, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). This weekend, the Jubilee of Hope…
