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Pope Leo XIV prays during 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 CNA Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 13:22 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of August is for mutual coexistence. In…

Rows of bunk beds line the interior of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility in the Florida Everglades, a repurposed training center now designated for holding immigrants. President Donald Trump appears in the background during a July 1, 2025, visit to the site. / Credit: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C….

Archbishop Eamon Martin. / Credit: Irish Jesuits, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 14:23 pm (CNA). In a moving message, Eamon Martin, primate of Ireland and archbishop of Armagh, commemorated St. John Vianney, the patron saint of all priests and especially parish priests, whose memorial is celebrated Aug….

St. John Vianney. / Credit: Herwig Reidlinger via Wikimedia Commons CC 3.0 CNA Newsroom, Aug 4, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). A century after the patron saint of priests, St. John Vianney, died on Aug. 4, 1859, Pope John XXIII reflected on the life of the saint and what it means to be a holy…

Camp Mystic alumnae and family sing after a memorial service on July 7, 2025, honoring victims of the flash floods in Central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend. / Credit: Amira Abuzeid/CNA Houston, Texas, Aug 4, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). One month has passed since some of the deadliest and most destructive flooding…