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Highlands El Encinar School in Madrid.

Regnum Christi to review abuse prevention policies following arrest of former official

Mar 13, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

Regnum Christi has announced that it will review the protocols it has in place in Spain following five allegations of... Read more

Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz gives a talk during his July 2024 visit to Santiago, Chile.

Opus Dei prelate: ‘These are difficult times in the world and in the Church’

Mar 13, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

In his latest pastoral letter, the prelate of Opus Dei, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, reflected on how Christians should live joyfully... Read more

Highlands El Encinar School in Madrid.

Legionaries of Christ priest accused of abusing 5 schoolgirls in Spain

Mar 13, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

According to several statements released by Highlands El Encinar School in recent days, Spain’s National Police arrested the priest on... Read more

Usha Vance visits the 2025 Special Olympics Winter Games in Turin, Italy, on March 10, 2025.

Special Olympics World Winter Games kicks off in Turin, Italy, with 1,500 athletes

Mar 11, 2025

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

One of the largest inclusive sports events of the year, the games mark the first Special Olympics World Winter Games... Read more

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UK pro-life leaders warn of ‘disaster’ in outsourcing assisted dying to private sector

Mar 11, 2025

By Madeleine Teahan

Following a report that the U.K. government is considering contracting out assisted death to the private sector, Right to Life... Read more

Maria Valtorta (1897–1961) was an Italian Catholic mystic who was bedridden for more than 30 years and claimed to have received visions and revelations from Jesus and the Virgin Mary, which she related in extensive writing. The Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith said in a Feb. 22, 2025, press release that the messages contained in her writing “cannot be considered to be of supernatural origin.”

Vatican clarifies that writings of Maria Valtorta are ‘not of supernatural origin’

The author, who remained bedridden for more than 30 years following an incident, claimed to have received visions and revelations... Read more

Ana Redondo, Spain’s minister of equality, is seen at the Spanish Congress of Deputies on Feb. 12, 2025.

Spanish government considers including abortion as a constitutional right

Mar 5, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

Spain’s minister of equality, Ana Redondo, said such an inclusion would be “a good way to protect sexual and reproductive... Read more

José Antonio Satué, bishop of Teruel and Albarracín in Spain.

Teacher at Opus Dei school in Spain maintains innocence after abuse conviction by Vatican

Mar 5, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

José María Martínez, a teacher at Gaztelueta School (an Opus Dei institution located in Lejona, Spain) was notified of his... Read more

The flag of the European Union.

EU bishops call for unity and solidarity with Ukraine amid geopolitical uncertainty

The European Catholic bishops stated that “Ukraine’s struggle for peace will also be decisive for the fate of Europe and... Read more

Alcide De Gasperi delivers a speech in Bologna, Italy, in 1951.

A ‘father of Europe’ is one step closer to beatification

Feb 28, 2025

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

Servant of God Alcide De Gasperi was one of the promoters of the project for a united Europe, inspired by... Read more

Deir Mar Musa, also known as the Monastery of St. Moses the Abyssinian, is a centuries-old Christian monastery in al-Nabk north of Damascus, Syria.

Trinitarian Order quietly helping persecuted Christians for 800 years

Feb 28, 2025

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

The Trinitarian Order comes to the aid of persecuted Christians in Syria, Nigeria, and northern India, among other places. Read more

Pope Francis meets with the Spanish bishops at the Vatican on Nov. 28, 2023.

Spanish bishops: Conditions for Pope Francis to resign are not met

Feb 27, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

The secretary-general of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Francisco César García Magán, said the conditions for Pope Francis to resign... Read more

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Poor Clare abbess criticizes Vatican order to close convents with fewer than 5 nuns

Feb 26, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

Sister María Victoria Triviño, OSC, made her critique in an article regarding the recent closure of a monastery that had... Read more

Window at the top of the south façade of the Cathedral in Seville, Spain,.

Islamist threat against Spanish cathedrals provokes calls for more security

Feb 26, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

The Observatory for Religious Freedom and Conscience is calling on Spain’s Ministry of the Interior to strengthen security at the... Read more

Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime during his homily at the Mass of St. James the Apostle in the Spanish church in Rome.

Salesians to elect new rector major to replace Cardinal Fernández Artime

Feb 24, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime has had to resign in order to take up his new duties in the Vatican Curia... Read more

The Reichstag building in Berlin, where the Bundestag meets.

CNA explains: What’s at stake for Catholics in Germany’s 2025 election?

Feb 21, 2025

By AC Wimmer

CNA explains what’s at stake for Catholics in Germany in the crucial 2025 election this Sunday. Read more

María Dolores Rosique, known as “Lola” by her family members and friends, is pictured here when she was hospitalized. A second-class relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis accompanied her at her bedside.

‘Carlo Acutis, I am in your hands’: Catholic pediatrician recovers from cancer

Feb 19, 2025

By Diego López Marina

With a radiant smile, pediatric physician María Dolores Rosique recounts with renewed faith her testimony of healing after overcoming aggressive... Read more

The Frauenkirche, the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

Bishops call for unity after deadly attacks in Germany and Austria

Feb 18, 2025

By AC Wimmer

In Villach, Austria, a 14-year-old Austrian boy was killed Saturday, Feb. 15, by a 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker in what... Read more

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, presides over a press conference on Friday, May 17, 2024, on the Vatican’s new document on Marian apparitions.

Vatican doctrine chief warns against ‘claim to omnipotence’ of gender ideology

Feb 18, 2025

By AC Wimmer

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández addressed scholars at the Cologne School of Catholic Theology about gender ideology’s “claim to omnipotence.” Read more

Concert at the Santa Maria dell'Olivo convent in Maciano, Italy, in July 2024.

Pope receives prisoners’ prayers for recovery while hospitalized in Rome

Feb 17, 2025

By Victoria Cardiel

While hospitalized at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis has received touching letters from inmates who were set to perform for... Read more