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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

Crowds at a town hall meeting on immigration in Los Angeles, January 2014.

New UK immigration bill ‘punishes’ refugees, say Catholic bishops and Jesuit Refugee Service

Feb 17, 2025

By Andy Drozdziak

The Border Security, Asylum, and Immigration Bill is currently making its way through the U.K. Parliament and passed its second... Read more

Bishop Kevin Doran.

Irish bishop appointed to shepherd two dioceses

Feb 16, 2025

By Kristina Millare

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Kevin Doran to lead the Diocese of Achonry while continuing as bishop of Elphin. Read more

An altar display of items associated with 17th-century English martyr St. Edmund Arrowsmith at the Church of St. Edmund and St. Oswald in Ashton-in-Makerfield, a former mining town midway between Liverpool and Manchester.

Mass attendance rises in the UK, though still far below pre-pandemic levels

Feb 12, 2025

By Jonah McKeown

Though not yet near pre-pandemic levels, Mass attendance numbers are on the rise in England and Wales, according to figures... Read more

Thousands of people walk prayerfully together through the streets during a Eucharistic procession in Derry, Ireland, on the feast of St. Brigid, Feb. 1, 2025.

Eucharistic procession a ‘breakthrough’ in Ireland

Feb 12, 2025

By Patrick J. Passmore

A recent Eucharistic procession in Derry, Ireland, highlighted an inspiring revival of Catholic faith in a city synonymous with some... Read more

Pope Francis waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday general audience on Dec. 4, 2024.

Pope makes surprise festival appearance with peace plea

Feb 11, 2025

By AC Wimmer

Speaking from his residence at Casa Santa Marta in an unscheduled appearance via video, the pontiff praised music’s unique ability... Read more

Father Zvonimir Pavicic, OFM, is pastor of the parish church at the Marian shrine of Medjugorje.

Pastor of Medjugorje’s parish church to skeptics: ‘Come and see’

Feb 11, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

Father Zvonimir Pavicic, OFM, welcomed the recent Vatican recognition of the spiritual phenomenon at Medjugorje as a call to make... Read more

Our Lady of Lourdes grotto, Lourdes, France.

5 fascinating facts about the apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes

Feb 11, 2025

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

On Feb. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Read more

Cardinal Kurt Koch speaks to journalists at the Synod on Synodality press briefing held at the Vatican’s Holy See Press Office on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024.

Cardinal Koch rejects extreme traditionalist, progressive positions on Vatican II

Feb 9, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

Cardinal Kurt Koch reflected the tension between the two essential parts of the Second Vatican Council: fidelity to the sources... Read more

The Paris public prosecutor’s office announced that, despite serious allegations of abuse, it will not investigate Abbé Pierre, known as a poor priest, because he is no longer alive.

Allegations of abuse: Paris public prosecutor’s office will not investigate Abbé Pierre

Feb 7, 2025

By CNA Deutsch

The Paris public prosecutor’s office has announced that, despite serious allegations of abuse, it will not investigate Abbé Pierre because... Read more

St. Marie’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Sheffield, England, was open for prayer on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, after a student at All Saints Catholic High School there was stabbed to death on Monday, Feb. 3.

Police charge teenager with stabbing classmate at Catholic high school in England

Feb 5, 2025

By Jonah McKeown

The alleged attacker reportedly stabbed 15-year-old Harvey Willgoose to death Feb. 3 at All Saints Catholic High School in the... Read more

France’s Prime Minister Francois Bayrou attends a session of questions to the government at the National Assembly, France’s lower house of Parliament, in Paris on Feb. 4, 2025.

French prime minister’s Catholic faith slammed after his decision to split end-of-life bill

Feb 5, 2025

By Solène Tadié

Opponents of the original bill saw it, on the contrary, as a courageous choice that endeavors to respect the plurality... Read more

Bishop Santiago Gómez Sierra visits St. Paul Parish in the Diocese of Huelva, Spain, in 2022.

Spanish diocese cancels parish prep course for blessing irregular couples

Feb 5, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

“This way of accompanying Christian faithful who are in such situations does not correspond with the teaching of Pope Francis,”... Read more

This painting of St. Peter visiting St. Agatha was created by Federico Zuccari between 1597 and 1599 for the altar of Sant’Agata in the Milan Cathedral. It was directly commissioned by Milan native Federico Borromeo, a cousin of St. Charles Borromeo.

St. Agatha, the early Church martyr who tradition says was visited by St. Peter

Feb 5, 2025

By ACI Prensa

Agatha was ruthlessly tortured and martyred under the Roman Emperor Decius in the third century and credited after her death... Read more

“To affirm that Jesus’ wisdom comes from his stay in India or Tibet before beginning his public life at 30 years of age is a lack of respect for the Gospels and also hides other errors, for example an erroneous conception of Christology,” Spanish Bishop José Ignacio Munilla said.

‘Jesus was not a yogi’: Bishop refutes theories spread by priest

Feb 4, 2025

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

Spanish Bishop José Ignacio Munilla warned about the theories spread by Father Pablo d’Ors that suppose a “crazy interpretation of... Read more