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Pope Leo XIV meets the president of the Italian Anti-Usury Council, Luciano Gualzetti, on Oct. 18, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 20, 2025 / 15:53 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Saturday condemned usury, a practice that is sometimes an extremely grave sin that speaks to the corruption of the heart…
The Archdiocese of Chicago says it removed Father Xamie Reyes from Little Flower Parish in Waukegan, Illinois, Oct. 19, 2025, following allegations of sexual misconduct involving seminarians. / Credit: Tudoran Andrei/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 20, 2025 / 16:57 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Chicago has removed Father Xamie Reyes from Little Flower Parish in…
A pilgrim prays the rosary at a Marian vigil in St. Peter’s Square, Rome, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 20, 2025 / 17:27 pm (CNA). A poll released by the Pew Research Center found that most Catholics believe religion has a positive influence on life in the United…
Father Custodio Ballester, a Spanish priest, was acquitted of hate crimes along with another priest and a journalist. / Credit: Photo courtesy of HazteOir.org ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 06:30 am (CNA). Two priests and a journalist who were tried for criticizing radical Islam have been acquitted by the Provincial Court of Malaga…
A view of the French Senate in Paris on Feb. 1, 2023. / Credit: Victor Velter/Shutterstock Paris, France, Oct 20, 2025 / 11:51 am (CNA). In an unprecedented initiative, 86 French senators have signed a public appeal denouncing the alarming rise of anti-Christian acts in France and urging the government to take concrete measures to…
Ending Clergy Abuse board members and survivors hold a press conference after meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 20, 2025 in Rome. / Credit: Simone Padovani/Getty Images Vatican City, Oct 20, 2025 / 12:21 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Monday met with members of an international organization of clergy abuse survivors and advocates…
Iranian women walk in front of a relief sculpture of the Virgin Mary at the newly-opened Maryam Moghaddas (Virgin Mary) metro station near the Sarkis Cathedral of the Armenians in Tehran on Oct. 18, 2025. / Credit: ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images ACI MENA, Oct 20, 2025 / 12:51 pm (CNA). This past week, social…
Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli, archbishop emeritus of Ancona-Osimo, in the northern Italian region of Marche, has died at the age of 86 after a long illness. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News ACI Stampa, Oct 20, 2025 / 13:23 pm (CNA). Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli, archbishop emeritus of Ancona-Osimo in the northern Italian region of Marche, has died…
null / Credit: Rohane Hamilton/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 20, 2025 / 13:53 pm (CNA). U.S. Catholic bishops are criticizing President Donald Trump’s effort to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) — a fertility treatment contrary to Church teaching that routinely discards human embryos. Trump announced on Oct. 16 that the government entered an…
Venezualans celebate their country’s two new saints during the canonization ceremony on Oct. 19, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News Vatican City, Oct 20, 2025 / 14:23 pm (CNA). Underlying political tensions have surfaced among Venezuelans in Rome celebrating the recent canonization of the country’s first two saints,…
