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The statue of Our Lady, Queen of Peace in the Basilica of St. Mary Major. / Credit: Jonah McKeown/CNA CNA Staff, Apr 26, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis, who died April 21, will be buried today in Rome, with a funeral Mass presided over by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College…

Left: Ismael with his friend Dalia, who traveled from Barcelona, Spain. Right: Nadia Trujillo, Ana Asensio, and their friend who joined them from Portugal. / Credit: Ursula Murua/EWTN News CNA Staff, Apr 25, 2025 / 18:56 pm (CNA). At 9:45 p.m. Rome time, 12 hours before Pope Francis’ funeral is set to take place, the…

The archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, speaks to EWTN News on Friday, April 25, 2025, in Rome. / Crdit: EWTN News/Screenshot CNA Staff, Apr 25, 2025 / 19:16 pm (CNA). The late Pope Francis was “a man of the heart” who preached tenderness and mercy to the global Church, New York archbishop Cardinal…

Cardinal Christophe Pierre speaks to EWTN News President and COO Montse Alvarado in Rome on Friday, April 25, 2025. / Credit: EWTN News CNA Staff, Apr 25, 2025 / 19:36 pm (CNA). Pope Francis asked us “to be a Church which announces the good news of Christ,” Cardinal Christophe Pierre said on Friday, one of…

Thousands of Catholics said their last goodbyes and paid their respects to Pope Francis on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, as the late pope lay in state in St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Apr 25, 2025 / 17:56 pm (CNA). Among the more than 250,000 people who made their way to the…

null / Credit: sergign/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 25, 2025 / 18:16 pm (CNA). A Maryland district court judge this week ordered Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to pay a former employee $60,000 for its refusal to provide spousal health care benefits to the man’s civilly married “husband.” The union is recognized under Maryland state law…