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Pope John Paul II blesses young faithful as he arrives at Tor Vergata campus to take part in World Youth Day on Aug. 19, 2000. More than 2 million young people turned out under a blazing sun to see the pope. / Credit: PAOLO COCCO/REUTERS POOL/AFP via Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 1, 2025…
Father Cosimo Schena is a priest at St. Francis Parish in the Diocese of Brindisi in southern Italy. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News Vatican City, Aug 1, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). With more than a million followers across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and other platforms, Father Cosimo Schena has become one of the most recognizable…
Fifty-four Missionaries of Charity are in Rome this week for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee of Young People, where they are approaching young people one by one to invite them to spend time with Christ in all-day Eucharistic Adoration and to learn about the mission and message of their founder, St. Teresa of Calcutta. / Credit:…
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St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credi: cinemavision/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Aug 1, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Vatican announced Thursday that St. John Henry Newman will be declared a doctor of the Church. The 19th-century English saint — a former Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism — will join 37 other saints who have been given…
There’s good news and there’s bad news. The problem is that the good news isn’t very good, and we don’t know (yet?) how bad the bad news can be. Yes, you guessed it: I’m talking about “synodality.” The good news is that “synodality” might actually be meaningless. (That raises some questions about why, then, we…
Sir Keir Starmer, His Majesty’s current Prime Minister for Great Britain (he has others—equally all powerful—in his other realms of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, and the rest), has sponsored legislation on September 5, 2025—the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill—in the House of Commons which would remove all the remaining hereditary peers. While in…
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