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Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for more than 1 million young pilgrims at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, in Rome’s outskirts, on Aug. 3, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Sep 1, 2025 / 11:05 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV expressed his condolences for the more than 800 dead left by the earthquake…

Members of St. Francis’ Work for the Poor, wearing t-shirts with the phrase “a helping hand to man every day,” with the Holy Father in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Sep 1, 2025 / 09:47 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Monday welcomed members of the Opera San Francesco per…

Carlo Acutis Catholic High School in Blantyre, Malawi, opened in 2022 with just 90 students and has since grown to accommodate 300, with boarding facilities for girls and a dedicated computer lab. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Carlo Acutis Catholic High School in Blantyre, Malawi Rome Newsroom, Sep 1, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). As…

Father James Martin, SJ. / Credit: Flickr by Shawn (CC BY-NC 2.0) Vatican City, Sep 1, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV met in a private audience with Father James Martin, S.J., at the Vatican on Monday. Martin, who is in Rome to lead a Jubilee pilgrimage for his LGBTQ ministry, Outreach, also…

null / Credit: GBALLGIGGSPHOTO/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Sep 1, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). A recent study found that the rate of mental-health-related hospitalizations doubled for women who had abortions compared with women who gave birth.  The study, published this summer in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, compared abortions with other pregnancies in hospitals in Quebec,…

null / Credit: mikeledray/Shutterstock Denver, Colo., Sep 1, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). As the U.S. celebrates Labor Day, Catholics have a wealth of resources in biblical interpretation, Church teaching, and social thought that address the nature of work and the place of the worker in society and in God’s creation. But are Catholics, and…