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The Holy House of Our Lady in the Shrine of Loreto. / Credit: Tatiana Dyuvbanova/Shutterstock Loreto, Italy, Dec 10, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). What do Galileo, Mozart, Descartes, Cervantes, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux have in common? They all traveled hundreds of miles to step inside the Virgin Mary’s house, which is preserved inside…
Flowers are seen on Sept. 3, 2025, outside the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where a shooter killed two children and injured 21 other people on Aug. 27, 2025. / Credit: Alex Wroblewski/Getty CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2025 / 15:10 pm (CNA). Three months after a deadly shooting in Minneapolis that left two students dead…
Pope Leo XIV addresses the press at Castel Gandolfo Dec. 9, 2025. / Credit: Zofia Czubak/CNA Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Dec 9, 2025 / 15:15 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV said President Donald Trump’s plan to end Russia’s war against Ukraine threatens to break apart the alliance between Europe and the United States. Asked by reporters…
American adults who identify with Christianity, with another religion, or with no religion have all remained steady, a new Pew Research Center report finds. / Credit: ChoeWatt/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 9, 2025 / 15:30 pm (CNA). The number of American adults who identify with Christianity, with another religion, or with no religion have all…
Eduard Habsburg, Hungary’s ambassador to the Holy See from 2015 to 2025, takes his leave during a farewell visit to Pope Leo XIV on Nov. 21, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media. Vatican City, Dec 9, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). Archduke of Austria Eduard Habsburg, who served as Hungary’s ambassador to the Holy See since…
A Nativity display with anti-ICE messaging outside St. Susanna Church in Dedham, Massachusetts. / Credit: Matthew McDonald Boston, Massachusetts, Dec 9, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA). The pastor of a Catholic parish near Boston says an anti-immigration-enforcement display in its Nativity scene will stay up at least for the time being, and he is asking…
The J. Edgar Hoover FBI headquarters building in Washington, D.C. / Credit: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2025 / 11:45 am (CNA). The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent who oversaw the Virginia office responsible for a highly controversial investigation into local Catholics will lead the state’s…
The exterior of St. Casimir church in Buffalo, New York / Michael Shriver/buffalophotoblog.com CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2025 / 13:00 pm (CNA). The Vatican’s Dicastery for Clergy has declared that several parishes in the Diocese of Buffalo, New York can remain open after Bishop Michael Fisher ordered their closure amid a diocesan-wide renewal plan. Save…
The Pope greets Zelenskyy in Castel Gandolfo. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Dec 9, 2025 / 14:32 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV received the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in audience today at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, the Holy See announced in a statement. The meeting, described as “cordial,” focused on the…
Traces of the first chapel where the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was first kept within the Old Parish of the Indians. / Credit: EWTN News Puebla, Mexico, Dec 9, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA). The story of St. Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe began with the well-known apparitions of 1531. The…
