Cardinal Angelo Becciu. Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Lawyers for Cardinal Angelo Becciu released a statement late Wednesday contradicting an Italian news report that the former curial …
Pope Francis prays for victims of terrorist attack at French basilica
Pope Francis at the general audience in St Peters Square on January 31 2018 Credit Daniel Ibanez/CNA After three people were killed in a terrorist …
Nice basilica terrorist attack: Who were the victims?
Basilica of Notre-Dame in Nice, France. Credit: Victor Kiev/shutterstock. Bells tolled in Catholic parishes across France in memory of the three people killed in a …
Cardinal Nichols ‘horrified’ by the ‘senseless’ killing of three people in Notre-Dame Basilica, Nice
Cathedral of Nice Image Source: CBCEW Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster said: “I am horrified to hear of the fatal attacks in the …
Paris’ Sacre-Coeur Basilica to be classified as a protected historic monument
A night view of Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Paris, France. Credit: Berlinuno (CC BY-SA 4.0). Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Paris is expected to be classified as a protected …
Pope Francis recognizes martyrdom of Lebanese priests killed under Ottoman Empire
Fr. Leonard Melki, pictured in Lebanon in 1911. Credit: Fares Melki (CC BY-SA 4.0). Pope Francis yesterday advanced the sainthood causes of nine men and …
Pope Francis bestows pallium on new Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
Pope Francis bestows the pallium on newly appointed Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa Oct. 28, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis yesterday bestowed the pallium on …
Pope Francis appeals for peace in Cameroon after deadly school attack
Pope Francis at his general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Oct. 28, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis appealed for …
Pope Francis supports Polish Catholics in fight against abortion
Pope Francis delivers his general audience address in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican, Oct. 28, 2020. Credit: Pablo Esparza/CNA. Pope Francis told …
Bishop responds to tragedy of four deaths including two children after migrant boat sinks in Channel
Bishop Paul McAleenan looking out to the sea at Dover. Image source: CBCEW Bishop Paul McAleenan, Chair of the Office for Migration Policy at the …
‘One of our own’: Catholic leaders welcome Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court
Amy Coney Barrett. Credit: Rachel Malehorn/wikimedia CC BY SA 3.0 Catholic bishops, academics, and policy experts hailed the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to …
Report: Vatican investigators focus on longtime investment manager
Vatican police car. Credit: AM113/Shutterstock An Italian newsweekly said Friday that it has obtained a document in which Vatican investigators focus on a longtime investment …
Vatican abuse trial: Victim petitions to sue pre-seminary and religious group
The Cupola of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on June 18, 2015. Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA. At a hearing yesterday of an ongoing abuse and …
Order of Malta to elect new Grand Master amid constitutional clash
Flag of the Sovereign Military Oder of Malta. Credit: AM113/Shutterstock. On 23 October, CNA interviewed HE Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager, Grand Chancellor of the Sovereign …
Pope Francis urges Europe’s leaders to rediscover ‘path of fraternity’
Pope Francis attends the general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall Oct. 21, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis warned Europe’s leaders Tuesday that …
Pope Francis’ Christmas liturgies to take place without public
Credit: Courtney Grogan/CNA. Pope Francis’ Christmas liturgies at the Vatican will be offered without public participation this year, as countries continue to react to the …
Vatican to discuss parish instructions with German bishops, not Synodal Way committee
Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, pictured Oct. 24, 2019. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. The Vatican has told the German Bishops’ Conference …
Pope Francis: ‘The times we live in are times of Mary’
Pope Francis meets teachers and students from Rome’s Pontifical Theological Faculty “Marianum” at the Paul VI Audience Hall Oct. 24. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis …
Benedict XVI distances himself from embattled Catholic community
Pope Benedict XVI, pictured on Aug. 28, 2010. Credit: L’Osservatore Romano. Benedict XVI has distanced himself from a Catholic community with which he had maintained …
Polish archbishop speaks out as protesters disrupt Sunday Masses after abortion ruling
Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, president of the Polish bishops’ conference, at the Vatican on Oct. 12, 2015. Credit: Andreas Dueren/CNA. The president of Poland’s bishops’ conference …