Sam Brownback. / Credit: Albert H. Teich/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jun 7, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). In a recent interview with the Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe), former… Religious freedom expert says the West uses a ‘suffocation technique on religion’
Christian unity will not be “primarily the fruit of our own efforts, nor will it be realized through any preconceived model or blueprint,” according to Pope Leo XIV. Speaking on Saturday to members the Symposium… Christian unity cannot come from a ‘blueprint’ according to Pope Leo XIV
Stained glass window of Blessed Carlo Acutis at St. Aldhelm’s in Malmesbury, England. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Thomas Kulandaisamy/Catholic Herald Vatican City, Jun 6, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). When will Carlo Acutis… When will Carlo Acutis be canonized? The big announcement Catholics are waiting for
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A statue of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in the Seton Legacy Garden at the Seton Shrine in Maryland. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Seton Shrine Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 6, 2025 / 07:00 am… 50th anniversary of Mother Seton’s canonization sparks pilgrimages
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, archbishop of Cologne in Germany. / Credit: Marko Orlovic/German Bishops’ Conference (DBK) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 6, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Here’s a roundup of Catholic world news from the… Petition to Pope Leo XIV to remove German cardinal gains over 60K signatures
Marko OrlovicCardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, archbishop of Cologne in Germany. The German-language petition accuses Cardinal Woelki of moral corruption.
Easter Vigil in Dublin, Ireland. / Credit: Archdiocese of Dublin Dublin, Ireland, Jun 5, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Thirty-year-old Mahon McCann was baptized during the Easter Vigil Mass in his parish of Rathfarnham in… Record number of adults baptized in Dublin as faith grows among young Irish
Chapel built on the remains of the old church where, in 1649, the apparition of the Child Jesus took place in a consecrated host in Eten, Peru. Currently, it is not under the jurisdiction of… Pope Leo’s aim for basilica at Eucharistic miracle site in Peru impeded by legal dispute
The Council of Nicaea in 325 as depicted in a fresco in Salone Sistino at the Vatican. / Credit: Giovanni Guerra (1544-1618), Cesare Nebbia (1534-1614) e aiuti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom,… Council of Nicaea: 1,700 years of Christian unity amid division