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Cardinal Pietro Parolin greets the parents of St. Carlo Acutis before Mass at Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Assisi, Italy, on Oct. 12, 2025. / Credit: Diocese of Assisi ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 13, 2025 / 16:13 pm (CNA). In a Mass marking the first liturgical memorial of St. Carlo Acutis, who was canonized…

The main altar at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, which was desecrated on Oct. 10, 2025. / Credit: Jorge Royan (CC BY-SA 3.0) ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 13, 2025 / 17:43 pm (CNA). Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica and vicar general of the pope for Vatican City, presided Oct. 13 over a…

St. Carlo Acutis. / Credit: carloacutis.com ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 13, 2025 / 14:42 pm (CNA). A fire this weekend severely damaged the 17th-century Bernaga Monastery outside of Milan in northern Italy, forcing 21 cloistered nuns to flee the blaze. The fire broke out around 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 11 as the nuns — part…

Bishop Sosthène Ayikuli Udjuwa is the apostolic administrator of the Congolese Wamba Diocese. / Credit: Radio Moto ACI Africa, Oct 13, 2025 / 15:12 pm (CNA). The Vatican Dicastery for Evangelization has suspended the formation of seminarians in the Diocese of Wamba in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), citing a “difficult ecclesial environment,” which…