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View of the mass grave at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in the town of Tuam, County Galway. / Credit: AugusteBlanqui, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Rome Newsroom, Jul 16, 2025 / 15:45 pm (CNA). A team of 18 archaeologists, anthropologists, and forensic scientists have begun excavating an old septic tank this…
U.S. Small Business Administration, Washington, D.C. / Jer123/Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Jul 16, 2025 / 16:35 pm (CNA). The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is opening a “Center for Faith” and eliminating a regulation that banned faith-based groups from receiving disaster loans. The SBA, a branch of the federal government established to bolster the economy by…
Mosaic of Mary, Virgin Immaculate, in the Chapel of the Choir in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. / Daniel Ibañez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 16, 2025 / 15:30 pm (CNA). A new study has found that “reciting the rosary privately” is the most popular Marian devotion among those discerning a religious vocation. The Center for Applied…
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference is urging lawmakers to prohibit surrogacy in all cases in a letter submitted on July 9, 2025. / Credit: Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, Jul 16, 2025 / 12:05 pm (CNA). The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has urged the Australian Law Reform Commission to ban all forms of surrogacy, including “altruistic” arrangements,…
Leonardo Donno and Moreno il Biondo in action during the Charity Soccer Match “Partita del Cuore” on July 15, 2025 in L’Aquila, Italy. / Credit: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images Vatican City, Jul 16, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has encouraged encounter and unity in a message to the players and spectators of a…
Photos of Pier Giorgio Frassati climbing in the Alps. The right photo shows him rappelling Rocca Sella on March 30, 1925. / Credit: Associazione Pier Giorgio Frassati Torino Turin, Italy, Jul 16, 2025 / 08:45 am (CNA). When alpine climber Edoardo Ricci clips into a harness or prepares for a steep ascent in the Alps,…
The port city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. / Credit: Tahir mq, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 16, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). In Saudi Arabia, a theocratic monarchy where Islam is the official and only permitted religion, religious freedom does not exist. However, according to data maintained by the Apostolic…
Keizersberg Abbey in Leuven, Belgium. / Credit: Johan Bakker, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Leuven, Belgium, Jul 16, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Benedictine community at Keizersberg Abbey in Leuven, Belgium, has been temporarily dissolved following allegations of abusive behavior among adults, according to an official declaration released by the head of the…
Pope Leo XIV visits the Poor Clares of Albano on July 15, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 15, 2025 / 19:07 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV made his first “getaway” from Castel Gandolfo to visit the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception of the Poor Clares of Albano, located within the Papal…
Archbishop Jacques Mourad denounced the practice of people driving around in official cars with loudspeakers proclaiming verses from the Quran and calling on Christians to convert. / Credit: Courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 15, 2025 / 17:46 pm (CNA). The Syrian Catholic archbishop of Homs in Syria, Jacques…
