A view of the damage to the Holy Family church in Gaza City following an Israeli strike on the church, in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on July 17, 2025. / Credit: OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images ACI MENA, Sep 5, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Despite evacuation orders and escalating military operations across…
Blessed Carlo Acutis (left) and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. / Credit: Diocese of Assisi/Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Sep 5, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Sept. 7 canonizations of Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati will be a crucial step in a decades-long effort to attract people to the Catholic faith…
Father Rony Salim, chancellor of the Syriac Catholic Archdiocese of Mosul, shared with ACI MENA, CNA’s Arabic-language news partner, that the bishop has called Qaraqosh the “City of Hosanna” due to its uniquely spirited celebration marked by hymns, prayers, and massive crowds of worshippers. / Credit: Ismael Adnan/ACI MENA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 5, 2025…
Father Edwin Román (left) with Bishop Silvio Báez. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Edwin Román ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 5, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Father Edwin Román talked about his life in exile in an interview with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, expressing his hopes for the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which…
Pope Leo XIV meets young adults from the Mediterranean Youth Council in the Hall of the Consistory in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on Sept. 5, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media. Vatican City, Sep 5, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). Real peace, often used as a slogan, begins in our own hearts and communities, Pope Leo…
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Back in March I wrote an article “Catholics Are Rapidly Losing Ground” in which I commented on a recent Pew Survey showing dire numbers about Catholicism, including the fact that for every person who becomes Catholic, over eight leave the Church. I didn’t try to sugar-coat the news and bluntly stated that this was very…
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Since Pope Leo XIV’s election, the encyclical Rerum Novarum, the foundation of Catholic Social Teaching, has been mentioned countless times. It is, arguably, Leo XIII’s most famous encyclical, and for good reason. But anyone familiar with his writings will tell you he also wrote several other tremendous encyclicals on a wide variety of topics. One…
