Pope receives prisoners’ prayers for recovery while hospitalized in Rome — By: Catholic News Agency

Concert at the Santa Maria dell’Olivo convent in Maciano, Italy, in July 2024. / Credit: Courtesy of Amici della Nave Association Rome Newsroom, Feb 17, 2025 / 11:05 am (CNA). Pope Francis received heartfelt letters from inmates at Milan’s San Vittore prison after his hospitalization forced the cancellation of a planned meeting where the prisoners…

Read More

At Vatican evening event, historic St. Peter’s bell ‘speaks’ through new sound installation — By: Catholic News Agency

Statues illuminated in ethereal blue light during the special evening access to St. Peter’s Basilica for the Jubilee of Artists, February 16, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Feb 17, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). For the Jubilee of Hope, an American artist has created an installation mapping the “soundscape” of one of the…

Read More

New UK immigration bill ‘punishes’ refugees, say Catholic bishops and Jesuit Refugee Service — By: Catholic News Agency

Crowds at a town hall meeting on immigration in Los Angeles, January 2014. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Victor Aleman/vida-nueva.com London, England, Feb 17, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The U.K. government is “choosing criminalization over compassion and protection” with its new asylum and immigration bill, according to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and…

Read More

Meet 7 ‘Generation X’ Catholics on their way to sainthood — By: Catholic News Agency

Top row from left to right: Niña Ruiz Abad, Marcelo Henrique Câmara, Sister Cecilia María de la Santa Faz. Bottom row from left to right: Víctor Manuel Schiavoni, Chiara Badano, Rebeca Rocamora. / Credit: Courtesy of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, Archdiocese of Florianópolis (Brazil), Archdiocese of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz,…

Read More

Pope Francis spends peaceful second night at hospital, prays for peace at Angelus — By: Catholic News Agency

Left: Banners at Rome’s Gemelli University Hospital. Right: Pope Francis waves from a wheelchair, Feb. 13, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Feb 16, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis spent a peaceful second night at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where he remains under medical care for a respiratory infection, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni…

Read More

Catholics hopeful on abortion, health policy after Kennedy’s confirmation as HHS secretary — By: Catholic News Agency

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 16, 2025 / 07:30 am (CNA). Prominent…

Read More