Above: Napoleon’s invasion of Rome, 1798. On October 21, 1775, Giuseppe Baini, an important figure in 19th-century sacred music, was born. In 2025, we celebrate both the 500th anniversary of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s birth and the 250th anniversary of Baini’s, a fortuitous convergence, as Baini was Palestrina’s first biographer. As the first “Perpetual Maestro…
For those who cherish his life and memory, Blessed Charles of Austria conjures up a mixture of emotions. A cheerful devotee of the man will never fail to experience nostalgia for a Catholic empire long since passed and reminisce about the glorious achievements of Charles’s ancestors. However, a more honest observer cannot ignore the melancholy…
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Seven new saints were canonized on Oct. 19, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 20, 2025 / 14:53 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Monday highlighted the life testimony of the saints canonized Sunday, Oct. 19, as “luminous signs of hope” for today’s Catholics. “The men and women we proclaimed saints…
Bishops fill St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican for the Synod on Synodality closing Mass on Oct. 27, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 20, 2025 / 15:23 pm (CNA). The Vatican has recognized an Australian bishop’s synodal plan to restructure the governance of his diocese. The Vatican’s General Secretariat of the…
Pope Leo XIV meets the president of the Italian Anti-Usury Council, Luciano Gualzetti, on Oct. 18, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 20, 2025 / 15:53 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Saturday condemned usury, a practice that is sometimes an extremely grave sin that speaks to the corruption of the heart…
The Archdiocese of Chicago says it removed Father Xamie Reyes from Little Flower Parish in Waukegan, Illinois, Oct. 19, 2025, following allegations of sexual misconduct involving seminarians. / Credit: Tudoran Andrei/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 20, 2025 / 16:57 pm (CNA). The Archdiocese of Chicago has removed Father Xamie Reyes from Little Flower Parish in…
A pilgrim prays the rosary at a Marian vigil in St. Peter’s Square, Rome, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 20, 2025 / 17:27 pm (CNA). A poll released by the Pew Research Center found that most Catholics believe religion has a positive influence on life in the United…
