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The statue of Blessed Carlo Acutis was installed in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mercy in the Diocese of Chascomús, Argentina, on Aug. 17, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Monignor Juan Ignacio Liébana, at the Cathedral Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug 24, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Argentine Diocese of Chascomús enthroned a…
Father Solomon Zaku, pictured on the right, is the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Nigeria and has called on the country’s government to ensure justice is applied in the trial of the suspects linked to the 2022 Pentecost Sunday attack on St. Francis Xavier Owo Catholic Parish in the Ondo Diocese, which…
Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd during his Angelus address on Aug. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Aug 24, 2025 / 08:20 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV said Sunday that Jesus calls Christians to enter through the narrow gate and challenges the presumption of those who assume they are already saved….
null / Credit: Srdjan Randjelovic/Shutterstock Philadelphia, Pa., Aug 24, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Nina Marie Corona thought she was just checking the box like any good cradle Catholic when she sat down in a pew over a decade ago. From her perspective at the time, she wasn’t there for anything dramatic — just the…
Pope Leo XIV gives his Sunday Angelus address from the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square on Aug. 24, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Aug 24, 2025 / 10:10 am (CNA). Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked his country’s Independence Day on Sunday by posting a letter from Pope Leo XIV…
[” Annunciation ,” Leonard da Vinci, 1472-1476] The Exorcist is exhorted in the Praenotanda , or Introduction, to the Rite of Exorcism… Read More
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St. Joseph Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio. / Credit: LO Kin-hei/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 24, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). As federal budget cuts halt programs for people in need, Catholic Social Services (CSS) in Columbus, Ohio, is encouraging volunteers to step up and become community heroes. Modeling the good Samaritan, people are being invited…
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Pius Parsch noted that the 11th, 12th, and 13th Sundays after Pentecost form a triad on sacramental grace: baptism, healing, and gratitude for purification. The context of summer, with its harvests, provides the natural analogy. Just as zucchini overflow gardens with comic abundance, so grace superabounds. The cycle of Sundays after Pentecost is like a…
