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A statue of Pope Gregory I, also known as Saint Gregory the Great, with his famous Catholic iconography of a dove sitting on his shoulder, sits outside of St. Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest, Monday, Dec. 30, 2024 / Credit: Alexander Ruszczynski/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Sep 3, 2025 / 07:15 am (CNA). St. Gregory the Great, a…

Pope Leo XIV appealed for help for Sudan during his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Sept. 3, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media. Vatican City, Sep 3, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday pleaded for international assistance for the North African country of Sudan, which is experiencing violence, famine,…

Archbishop Hebda told EWTN News that Annunciation Church will have to be reconsecrated after the shooting, an act he described as “reclaim[ing] that territory for the Lord.” / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot CNA Staff, Sep 3, 2025 / 08:55 am (CNA). Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop Bernard Hebda said this week that Catholics and others…

The play, “Highway to Heaven,” was performed Oct. 12, 2024, the feast day of Blessed Carlo Acutis. Written and directed by Anna Harrison of Sydney Catholic Youth, it featured children ages 7 to 15 dramatizing the life of the Italian teenager known for his love of the Eucharist and his computer skills. / Credit: Courtesy…

St. Mary’s Cathedral in Valencia, Spain. / Credit: Pere López, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Madrid, Spain, Sep 3, 2025 / 05:15 am (CNA). The Observatory for Religious Freedom and Conscience (OLRC by its Spanish acronym) in Spain decried that it was “a black August” with seven cases of vandalism and desecration against Catholic…