Euthanasia facility quietly opens at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver — By: Catholic News Agency

St. Paul’s Hospital, operated by Providence Health Care, has a MAID facility on its campus, operated by the British Columbia government’s Vancouver Coastal Health. / Credit: Terry O’Neill Vancouver, Canada, Jun 23, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). A government-ordered euthanasia facility, operated by the British Columbia, Canada, government’s Vancouver Coastal Health Authority on the downtown…

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Vatican secretary for protection of minors: ‘Harming a victim is harming the image of God’ — By: Catholic News Agency

Auxiliary Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera is secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. / Credit: “EWTN Noticias”/Screenshot ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 23, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Auxiliary Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera, secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (PCTM, by its Italian acronym), contends that instead…

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National Eucharistic Pilgrimage concludes with Corpus Christi Mass in LA — By: Catholic News Agency

Smoke from incense drifts in the air at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, California, where the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage concluded on June 22, 2025, / Credit: Jeffrey Bruno/EWTN Los Angeles, Calif., Jun 22, 2025 / 23:23 pm (CNA). The 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage completed its 3,300-mile journey across…

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‘The church comes first’: A Yazidi family’s promise to protect a Christian sacred site — By: Catholic News Agency

Despite being Yazidi, a religious minority that has suffered persecution in Iraq, Wael Jejo Khdeida, along with his wife, tends to Mar Odisho Church in northern Iraq without pay and treats it as sacred. / Credit: Ismail Adnan/ACI MENA ACI MENA, Jun 22, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Though Christians left the northern Iraqi village…

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Argentine businessman Enrique Shaw one step closer to beatification — By: Catholic News Agency

Venerable Enrique Shaw. / Credit: Acdeano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jun 21, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). The cause for canonization of Venerable Enrique Shaw, an Argentine husband, father, and businessman remembered for his vocation of service and his close ties to the working class, took another step forward at the…

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