Joseph CiorraA processional cross made from the wood left over from the Long Island boardwalk destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 is carried across the sand ahead of Sunday Mass as part of the Beach…
On Friday, Pope Leo XIV spoke to Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, about the situation in the Gaza Strip, where on Thursday the area’s only Catholic church was hit…
The Church of the Holy Family in Gaza was hit the Israeli military on Thursday, an action Israel allegedly called “a shooting error.” The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem issued a statement confirming several people were…
Pope Leo XIV pledged to work to “pursue the path of unity and fraternal charity” in a meeting in Castel Gandolfo with Orthodox and Catholic clergy from the United States. The clergy were on the…
Courtesy photoBishop Kevin Doran of Elphin, chairman of the Irish bishops’ Council for Life (far left), and Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, primate of all Ireland (second from left), stand with young pro-life activists at…
Library in Starfield Shopping Mall, Suwon, South Korea. / Credit: Jpbarrass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 17, 2025 / 07:30 am (CNA). “I believe that artificial intelligence will become an…
LOR Pope John Paul II with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger during his inauguration as Pastor of the Church on October 22, 1978 in Vatican City. COMMENTARY: Vatican II’s often-misread final document is best understood by returning…
The port city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. / Credit: Tahir mq, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 16, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). In Saudi Arabia, a theocratic monarchy where Islam…
Wikimedia Commons Operation Midnight Hammer was the first combat use of the 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) GBU-57 MOP. COMMENTARY: Three fallacies applied to the just war tradition when assessing the military action by Israel and the…
Johan BakkerKeizersberg Abbey in Leuven, Belgium. The extraordinary measures follow a canonical visitation that began in 2022 and was completed in January as well as a commission of inquiry into abuse allegations established in November…