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Swiss Guards accompany the pallbearers with the wooden coffin of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square on April 23, 2025, during the translatio — the solemn transfer of the pope’s body for public viewing ahead of Saturday’s funeral Mass. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, Apr 23, 2025 / 05:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis passed…

Assets sold to help pay a massive clergy sex abuse settlement in the Diocese of Buffalo, New York, include the diocese’s former headquarters, pictured here, in downtown Buffalo. / Credit: Warren LeMay/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 CNA Staff, Apr 23, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA). The Diocese of Buffalo, New York, will pay out a massive $150…

German bishops gather in Rome on Nov. 17, 2022. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Staff, Apr 23, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA). The German Catholic bishops have published a handout that offers guidance to pastors on blessings for couples in “irregular” situations such as same-sex relationships, urging clergy to use the blessings to “express appreciation”…

Pope Francis’s body lies in state at St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Apr 23, 2025 / 12:30 pm (CNA). Pope Francis was brought in solemn procession to St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday morning, where the late pontiff will lie in state for three days for mourners…

The Salus Populi Romani icon is displayed in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Apr 23, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis ordered that upon his death he would be buried in the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore (Basilica of St. Mary Major). This basilica was very…

Pope Francis blesses the faithful at the Jubilee of the Sick in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City, on April 6, 2025, as his personal nurse, Massimo Strappetti, assists him in the wheelchair. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, Apr 23, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). Having cared for the aging Pope Francis as his personal…