SOPA ImagesPope Leo XIV presides over the canonizations of Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis in St. Peter’s Square on Sept. 7, 2025. ‘They are saints who bring us closer to the path to holiness… Catholics React to New Saints Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati

null / Credit: Stock-Asso/Shutterstock London, England, Sep 9, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). A priest and professor of bioethics has issued a grave warning about the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) companionship, highlighting the threats… AI companions pose risks of isolation, psychosis, priest warns

CNS photoArchbishop Christian Lépine of Montreal, shown in a 2017 photo, has written a public letter opposing the Quebec government’s plan to ban public prayer. Archbishop Lépine said the proposal by Quebec Premier François Legault… Quebec’s Proposed Prayer Ban ‘Like Forbidding Thought Itself,’ Montreal Archbishop Says

The National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland, began a year of celebration on the saint’s canonization in 2025.  / Credit: Seton Shrine Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 9, 2025 / 08:00 am… Seton Shrine to celebrate 50 years of America’s first native-born saint

St. Carlo Acutis (left) and St. Pier Giorgio Frassati. / Credit: Diocese of Assisi/Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Sep 9, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Catholic Church will commemorate the liturgical memorial… Vatican establishes feast days of St. Carlo Acutis and St. Pier Giorgio Frassati

MANILA, Philippines – A Filipino priest and fierce critic of the country’s former President Rodrigo Duterte recently said he was accepting an award known as the Nobel Prize of Asia in honor of all victims… Filipino priest who defied Duterte to receive Nobel Prize of Asia

Sirio Carnevalino The Church of the Gesù, where a Mass and prayer vigil for LGBT Christians took place on Sept. 6, 2025, in Rome during the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope. | More than 1,000… Italian Bishop Celebrates Mass for LGBT Pilgrimage in Rome’s Church of the Gesù

Raphael, “The School of Athens,” 1511 Rooted in beauty and imitation, the arts — from music to story — form our affections and shape how we seek what is good, true and beautiful.

Courtesy photoThe Maronite bishops gather for their monthly meeting at the Patriarchal Summer Residence in Dimane, Lebanon, where they issued a statement that Lebanon must seize available regional and international opportunities to restore full sovereignty… Maronite Bishops Call for Full Restoration of Lebanese Sovereignty

ROME – Penguin Random House announced Monday that notoriously media-shy Pope Leo XIV has given his first-ever papal interview to Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen as part of her new biography of the pontiff.… Leo gives first exclusive interview to Crux correspondent for new bio