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U.S. Vice President JD Vance waves to the crowd at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington, D.C. / Credit: EWTN News/Screenshot Washington D.C., Feb 28, 2025 / 18:15 pm (CNA). U.S. Vice President JD Vance led attendees at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in a prayer for Pope…

Revellers gather for the 11:11 Fat Thursday (Weiberfastnacht) launch of the city’s carnival celebrations on Feb. 27, 2025, in Cologne, Germany. / Credit: Hesham Elsherif/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 28, 2025 / 17:15 pm (CNA). Here are some of the major stories of the Church around the world that you might have missed this…

A group of U.S. and Mexican bishops from dioceses along the southern border participating in the biannual Tex-Mex Border Bishops meeting this week in San Antonio. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Archdiocese of San Antonio CNA Staff, Feb 28, 2025 / 17:45 pm (CNA). A group of U.S. and Mexican bishops from dioceses along…

The chapel at Gemelli Hosptial in Rome bears the name and contains a relic of another pope who knew these corridors well: St. John Paul II. The Polish pontiff was hospitalized here multiple times, including after an assassination attempt in 1981. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Vatican City, Feb 28, 2025 / 14:58 pm (CNA). Pope…

Alcide De Gasperi delivers a speech in Bologna, Italy, in 1951. / Credit: Democrazia Cristiana, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Madrid, Spain, Feb 28, 2025 / 15:30 pm (CNA). The closing ceremony of the diocesan phase of the beatification process of Servant of God Alcide De Gasperi (1881–1954), an Italian politician recognized as one of…