Catholic University in Erbil celebrates fifth graduating class
A student receives his diploma during a graduation ceremony at the Catholic University of Erbil in Iraq on Sept. 30, 2025. / Credit: ACI MENA ACI MENA, Oct 2, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The…
It’s official: St. Francis’ feast day back to being a national holiday in Italy
A 13th-century fresco of St. Francis of Assisi by the Florentine painter Cimabue, one of the earliest depictions of the saint, is located in the lower church of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi…
Cardinal McElroy Calls for Solidarity With Immigrants Lacking Legal Status
Patrick Ruddy/CNACardinal Robert McElroy gives his first homily as the shepherd of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on March 11, 2025. Cardinal McElroy referenced…
Pope Leo XIV Restores Custom of Christmas Day Mass
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Parish Church of St. Anne in the Vatican on Sept. 21, 2025. The Vatican has released the upcoming Mass schedule.
Pope Leo XIV Responds to Aspiring Doctor Who Asks ‘What Does the Future Hold for Us?’
Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Sept. 11, 2025. Leo recommended cultivation of friendship with Jesus first and foremost.
Brooklyn Bishop Calls On Faithful to Lobby Against New York Assisted Suicide Legislation
Courtesy photoBrooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan carries the thurible around the altar inside Louis Armstrong Stadium on April 20, 2024. The pracitce is not yet legal in New York, but the Medical Aid in Dying Act…
Pope Leo XIV Says Hegseth’s Talk of War Is ‘Worrying’
Andrew HarnikU.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30, 2025 in Quantico, Virginia. The Chicago-born Pope Leo spoke to reporters as he was leaving…
Christians in Chad complain of Islamicization of public institutions
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Christian leaders in Chad are warning that the country’s public institutions are increasingly being monopolized by Islam, part of what they see as a pattern of growing pressures on Christianity in the…
Pope Leo channels his inner Benedict XVI by extolling ‘healthy secularism’
ROME – Channeling his inner Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Leo met a “Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue” yesterday sponsored by the European Parliament and extolled what he called “healthy secularism,” a core concept…
Are modern Bible translations always better? A Catholic linguist praises St. Jerome’s Vulgate
Saint Jerome Writing, a painting by Caravaggio, dated to 1605–06. / Credit: Public domain CNA Staff, Sep 30, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). Most people know that St. Jerome — whose feast day the Catholic Church…