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Pope Francis delivers his Angelus address from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square, Jan. 26, 2025.

Never forget Auschwitz horrors, Pope Francis says ahead of 80th anniversary

Jan 26, 2025

By AC Wimmer

Speaking at the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis marked the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and made urgent appeals for... Read more

Pope Francis prays in front of a crucifix during his general audience on Oct. 26, 2022.

Millions still suffer from leprosy. Here’s Pope Francis’ message about it

Jan 24, 2023

By Katie Yoder

“We cannot forget these brothers and sisters of ours,” the pontiff said in a message to the Second Symposium on... Read more

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Texas Catholic Charities will drop lawsuit against federal government as payments resume

The flag of the European Union flying in Rome.

European bishops’ secretary-general: Secularization is eclipsing Christian values

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin (right) meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda on March 28, 2025, at the Vatican. 

Pope’s recovery progresses as Vatican appoints new librarian, Polish president visits

Lost at sea for 95 days, fisherman Máximo “Gatón” Napa says Jesus Christ literally came to his rescue.

Fisherman lost at sea for 95 days recounts miraculous rescue

St. Hedwig Cathedral in Berlin, Germany.

Catholic population in Germany drops below 20 million for the first time

Catholic actor Jonathan Roumie, known for his role as Jesus Christ in “The Chosen,” speaks with CNA during a press junket interview on March 19, 2025, in Dallas at the Season 5 premiere of “The Chosen: Last Supper.”

Jonathan Roumie discusses Season 5 of ‘The Chosen’: ‘For me, it was living out liturgy’

Pope Francis gives an extraordianry urbi et orbi blessing in St. Peter's Square, March 27, 2020.

Pope Francis’ pandemic prayer 5 years later: ‘Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?’

SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser speaks in front of the Capitol on March 27, 2025, in Washington, D.C. “This movement is completely unified in its first priority, and that is to defund big abortion in this reconciliation bill,” she said.

Pro-life advocates lobby Congress to defund Planned Parenthood

Pope Francis presides at Palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican on March 24, 2024.

Vatican publishes Holy Week schedule without clarifying whether Pope Francis will preside

A relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a fragment of his pericardium, visits the U.S. at Holy Family Parish in Queens, New York, on April 6, 2022.

Italian prosecutors investigate illegal sale of apparent Carlo Acutis relics online

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