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Vestments rest in the Room of Tears at the Sistine Chapel ahead of the conclave to elect the next pope, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, May 7, 2025 / 13:00 pm (CNA). When Pope Leo XIII was elected in 1878, the story goes that he wept. At age 67, he…
Pilgrims gather in St. Peter’s Square for a Mass and canonization of 14 new saints on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, May 7, 2025 / 11:19 am (CNA). Some of the people who are most desperate for hope — including suffering Christians in Ukraine, the Holy Land, and Africa —…
Cardinals process into the Sistine Chapel as the conclave to elect the 266th successor to St. Peter, the 267th pope, begins on May 7, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, May 7, 2025 / 11:55 am (CNA). With the proclamation of “extra omnes” (“outside everyone”) on the afternoon of May 7, the thick wooden…
Bishop Robert Barron talks with EWTN News Correspondent Colm Flynn on May 5, 2025, about what he believes to be the qualities of some of the cardinals being mentioned as “papabile,” the Italian term for a man who could be pope. / Credit: EWTN News/Screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 7, 2025 / 09:38 am (CNA)….
Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, chapel and statue. / Credit: Joseph Antoniello, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, May 7, 2025 / 10:08 am (CNA). Theologians from around the world will gather at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, this summer for the fifth annual Truth of Love Conference. This year’s emphasis — the relationship of…
Cardinals participate in the fifth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on May 3, 2025 — the feast of Sts. Philip and James — in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA CNA Staff, May 7, 2025 / 10:38 am (CNA). John, Pius, Leo, and Alexander. These are just a few of the…
Cardinals celebrate the sixth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on May 1, 2025, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 7, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). As online gambling continues to grow in the United States, mostly on sports and casino games, bookmakers have also opened betting…
The Legionaries of Christ ordained 23 new priests on May 3, 2025, at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Legionaries of Christ ACI Prensa Staff, May 7, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). In the midst of the pre-conclave atmosphere, with an eye toward the election…
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Dean of the College of Cardinals, gives the homily in St. Peter’s Basilica at the ‘Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice’ Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on May 7, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome Newsroom, May 7, 2025 / 04:43 am (CNA). Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals,…
Cardinal Luis José Rueda Aparicio, archbishop of Bogota, Colombia. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, May 7, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA). Colombian Cardinal Luis José Rueda Aparicio pointed out that the atmosphere among the cardinals is “quite different” from what people who associate a papal conclave “with a democratic election of a president”…
