August 2021

Bishop Lang celebrating Mass. Credit: CBCEW The Chair of the Bishops’ Conference Department of International Affairs has urged Catholics to pray for the people of …

Pope Francis boards his flight to Baghdad, Iraq on March 5, 2021./ Vatican Media/CNA Pope Francis will not offer a public Mass during his short …

Alta Fixsler/ EWTN News In Depth / Family Photo The Fixsler family is fighting to keep their 2-year-old daughter, Alta, on life support in the …

Pope Francis greets pilgrims from the window overlooking St. Peter’s Square on July 25, 2021./ Vatican Media/CNA Pope Francis has called for international solidarity to …

Assumption of the Virgin Mary, fresco painting in San Petronio Basilica in Bologna, Italy. / Zvonimir Atletic / Shutterstock. On Aug. 15, Catholics around the …

Pope Francis speaks at the at the Grotto of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens on May 31st, 2021./ Vatican Media/CNA On the Solemnity of the …

The Right Reverend Mark O’Toole, Bishop of Plymouth, has issued a statement on the fatal shootings which took place in the Keyham area of Plymouth …

“The Chosen” actor Jonathan Roumie meets Pope Francis (right) at the Vatican on Aug. 11./ Vatican Media/CNA Pope Francis on Wednesday, fulfilling a lifelong dream …

Church in Cameroon. Credit: CBCEW In recent weeks we’ve been raising awareness of a long-running Anglophone conflict in Cameroon that has seen almost a million …

GUNDAM_Ai/Shutterstock A report on a survey of 214 religious education teachers in Ireland is raising alarm that students who practice a religion, particularly Catholicism, are …

Source: CNA Cardinal Joseph Zen said Monday he thinks Traditionis custodes may not have a disastrous effect on the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, …

Pope Francis waves during his Angelus address at the Vatican, Aug. 8, 2021./ Vatican Media. Italian police announced Monday that the sender of the letter …

Funeral Mass of murdered seminarian Michael Nnadi, Good Shepherd Seminary, Kaduna, Nigeria, Feb. 11, 2020/ Diocese of Maiduguri The murder of a French priest yesterday …

Cracked earth. Credit: CBCEW Lead Bishop for the Environment, Bishop John Arnold of Salford, has responded to a new report published by the Intergovernmental Panel …

Pope Francis delivers his Angelus address at the Vatican, Aug. 8, 2021./ Vatican Media. An envelope addressed to Pope Francis and containing three bullets was …

Fr. Olivier Maire, French provincial superior of the Montfort Missionaries (the Company of Mary)/ Olivier Faure on Twitter France’s Interior Minister announced today that a …

Pope Francis waves during his Angelus address at the Vatican, Aug. 8, 2021./ Vatican Media. Pope Francis said today that Jesus’ declaration that he is …

Hiroshima Credit: CBCEW The Chair of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference Department for International Affairs has called for prayers on the anniversary of the dropping of …