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Iranian women walk in front of a relief sculpture of the Virgin Mary at the newly-opened Maryam Moghaddas (Virgin Mary) metro station near the Sarkis Cathedral of the Armenians in Tehran on Oct. 18, 2025. / Credit: ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images ACI MENA, Oct 20, 2025 / 12:51 pm (CNA). This past week, social…

Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli, archbishop emeritus of Ancona-Osimo, in the northern Italian region of Marche, has died at the age of 86 after a long illness. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News ACI Stampa, Oct 20, 2025 / 13:23 pm (CNA). Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli, archbishop emeritus of Ancona-Osimo in the northern Italian region of Marche, has died…

null / Credit: Rohane Hamilton/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 20, 2025 / 13:53 pm (CNA). U.S. Catholic bishops are criticizing President Donald Trump’s effort to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) — a fertility treatment contrary to Church teaching that routinely discards human embryos. Trump announced on Oct. 16 that the government entered an…

Venezualans celebate their country’s two new saints during the canonization ceremony on Oct. 19, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News Vatican City, Oct 20, 2025 / 14:23 pm (CNA). Underlying political tensions have surfaced among Venezuelans in Rome celebrating the recent canonization of the country’s first two saints,…

Bishop Mark O’Connell. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Archdiocese of Boston Vatican City, Oct 20, 2025 / 09:44 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Monday named Bishop Mark O’Connell, an auxiliary bishop of Boston, the next bishop of the Diocese of Albany, New York. O’Connell, a canon lawyer, succeeds the 77-year-old Bishop Edward B….