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Pope Francis waves while traveling by boat in Venice, Italy, for a meeting with young people at the Basilica della Madonna della Salute on April 28, 2024. Earlier in the day he met with inmates at a women's prison.

Pope Francis arrives in Venice, meets with women inmates and artists

Apr 28, 2024

Pope Francis opened his one-day visit to Venice Sunday with a meeting with female inmates where he reaffirmed the importance of fraternity and human dignity. 

Members of the Provincial Episcopal Assembly of Bukavu (ASSEPB).

Democratic Republic of Congo bishops: Amid growth of Church ‘the Congolese state is dead’

Apr 28, 2024

Catholic bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo have denounced the insecurity and violence in their dioceses.

Prayer house at San Simeone, Italy, September 2012.

Catholic movement in Italy dedicated to people ‘far from the Church’

Apr 28, 2024

The Ricostruttori community in Italy runs houses of prayer for people who are “drawn to spirituality but far from the Church.”

Father Leo Riley, 68, continued to serve as a priest for years after a 2020 sexual abuse lawsuit was filed against him and the Diocese of Venice, Florida.

Florida priest continued in active ministry for three years after sex abuse lawsuit filed

Apr 27, 2024

Father Leo Riley, 68, continued to serve as a priest for years after a 2020 sexual abuse lawsuit was filed against him and the Diocese of Venice, Florida. 

Pope Francis meets Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her 6-year-old daughter on Jan. 10, 2023.

Pope Francis to attend G7 summit to speak on artificial intelligence

Apr 27, 2024

The Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations summit is being held in the southern Italian region of Puglia from June 13–15.

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died at the age of 24 in 1925, is beloved by many Catholic young people today for his enthusiastic witness to holiness that reaches “to the heights.”

Pier Giorgio Frassati could be canonized during 2025 Jubilee, cardinal says

Apr 27, 2024

Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, announced on April 26 that Frassati’s canonization is “on the horizon.” 

Gia Chacón (right), founder of March for the Martyrs, said the plight of the tens of thousands of Christian Armenians  pushed out of their homes in the disputed Artsakh or Nagorno-Karabakh region hash been "completely overlooked by the mainstream media.”

March for the Martyrs raises awareness of persecuted Armenian Christians and more

Apr 27, 2024

Marchers are setting out in the nation’s capital on Saturday to call attention to the plight of persecuted Christians throughout the world.

The members of the general board of directors of the Regnum Christi Federation, before its first general convention from April 29 to May 4, 2024, in Rome.

Regnum Christi: ‘It would have been easy to run and hide,’ but the Church is ‘purifiying’ us

Apr 27, 2024

The ecclesial movement was shaken to the core by the revelation of numerous cases of sexual abuse and the abuse of power that primarily involved its founder.

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Analysis: Jesuit sex abuse scandal in Bolivia could be used politically to repress Church

Apr 27, 2024

Journalists from ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, traveled to Bolivia to look into the implications of the case of Jesuit priest Alfonso Pedrajas.

Franciscans file petition to stop cable cars from passing over Holy Land Catholic cemetery

Apr 27, 2024

The Jerusalem Development Authority is exploring the opportunity to use the piece of land in the cemetery to place a cable car support pylon.

‘Little miracle of Lille’: How a candlelight Mass gathers hundreds of young people every week in France

Apr 27, 2024

“The good makes no noise,” St. Francis de Sales would say of Lille’s candlelight Mass. 

109 years after genocide, Armenia faces another existential threat

Apr 26, 2024

Speaking on “EWTN News Nightly,” Simone Rizkallah said “this feels less like a remembrance and more like a truly historical event that we are in the midst of.”