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Pope Leo XIV and St. Augustine. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News and Public Domain ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 8, 2025 / 15:53 pm (CNA). Today marks three months since Pope Leo XIV first appeared on the central balcony of the Vatican basilica after being elected the successor of St. Peter. In that first urbi et…
Conceived in 1994, Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born in 2025. / Credit: Courtesy of Lindsey Pierce CNA Staff, Aug 8, 2025 / 16:23 pm (CNA). Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news. Baby born from 30-year-old embryo through embryo adoption Thaddeus Daniel Pierce is the world’s oldest baby, born more than 30…
A view of the ruined Urukami Cathedral after the Aug. 9, 1945, atomic bombing of Nagasaki. / Credit: Yamahata Yōsuke, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Newsroom, Aug 8, 2025 / 16:53 pm (CNA). As night fell over Nagasaki, Japan, on Friday, the reconstructed Urakami Cathedral — once destroyed by the world’s second atomic bomb…
President Donald Trump answers questions during a signing ceremony with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (left) and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (right) in the State Dining Room of the White House on Aug. 8, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The agreement signed during the ceremony is intended to bring an end to the conflict between Armenia…
Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrams gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 6, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 8, 2025 / 12:08 pm (CNA). The Prefecture of the Papal Household announced that Pope Leo XIV will travel to Albano, Italy, on Sunday,…
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to Raymond Arroyo on “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. / Credit: EWTN News Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 8, 2025 / 12:38 pm (CNA). U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration is “committed” to fixing an ongoing backlog in religious…
Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska (pictured in St. Peter’s Square in 2019) criticized the University of Nebraska for allowing a student to mock the Mass in a drag show. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA CNA Staff, Aug 8, 2025 / 13:08 pm (CNA). The University of Nebraska has officially apologized for sanctioning a profane “drag”…
Pope Francis greets Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn at the Vatican during the USCCB’s Region II ad limina visit on Nov. 15, 2019. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Aug 8, 2025 / 10:54 am (CNA). A U.S. Catholic bishop is sharply criticizing a large payout to his accusers even after the Holy See said…
A Jesuit priest fluent in 13 languages, Father Mitch Pacwa hosts several programs on EWTN, including “EWTN Live.” / Credit: EWTN Birmingham, Ala., Aug 8, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Edith Stein, the Jewish woman who would become St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was murdered in the gas chamber at the Auschwitz concentration camp…
St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. / Credit: Babouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 8, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). According to Father Francisco Javier Calvo, Pope Leo XIV’s recent announcement that St. John Henry Newman will be declared a doctor of the Church represents…
