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Antonia Salzano Acutis speaks to the faithful in New York City on Thursday, May 29, 2025 / Credit: Sabrina Ferrisi New York City, N.Y., May 31, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). Antonia Salzano Acutis, the mother of soon-to-be canonized Carlo Acutis, spoke to a capacity crowd of more than 2,500 people at St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
Just a mention of Lough Derg summons tales of sleep deprivation, discomfort, and hunger, but it’s a deeply spiritual place of renewal and hope, from which faithful pilgrims often emerge reborn through the rituals of self-purification. / Credit: Lough Derg Dublin, Ireland, May 31, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). This weekend, the Jubilee of Hope…
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The dome of the Cathedral of St. Bavo in Haarlem, the Netherlands. / Credit: Frank de ruyter via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0 NL) Vatican City, May 31, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). The Church in the Netherlands is gaining momentum thanks to the “creative minority” of young people rediscovering the Catholic faith, Cardinal Willem Eijk…
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The garden created at Mepkin Abbey is a way to honor and recognize the enslaved who lived and died on the property for 100 years. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Mepkin Abbey Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 31, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). On a piece of land in South Carolina where hundreds of Indigenous and…
From the Roman office of the feast. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of Pope St. Leo the Great. 2nd on the Ascension. And so the seen Presence of our Redeemer in the Body was changed for…
An attendee prays the rosary during a demonstration called by the association “La Marche pour la vie” against abortion and euthanasia in Versailles, southwest of Paris, on March 4, 2024. / Credit: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty Images Paris, France, May 31, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The French National Assembly has approved a…
Cortes was born in Spain in 1809, a descendant of the conquistador Hernán Cortes. Having flirted with the ideas of the Enlightenment, he became increasingly critical of the liberal political ideas that were sweeping across Europe in the wake of the secularist tyranny of the French Revolution. Such tyranny was even worse, he argued, than…
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