The All Ireland Rosary Rally has attracted increasingly larger crowds. This year’s rally included a youth conference and a prayer vigil in the basilica to welcome the feast of Pentecost on June 8, 2025. /…
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square – World Mission Sunday, 2025 – and canonized seven new saints: Ignatius Choukrallah Maloyan, Peter To Rot, Vincenza Maria Poloni (née Luigia), Maria del…
Children from the Diocese of Jalingo in Nigeria gathered on the feast of the Holy Rosary on Oct. 7, 2025, to join in the prayer campaign “One Million Children Praying the Rosary,” which was celebrated…
A Venezuelan priest who concelebrated the canonization Mass with Pope Leo XIV celebrates his country’s first saints in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 19, 2025. / Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN Vatican City, Oct 19, 2025 / 08:15…
Pope Leo XIV launched an appeal on Sunday for an immediate ceasefire in Myanmar, where intermittent fighting – ongoing since 2021 – intensified over the past several weeks. “I renew my heartfelt appeal for an…
Nicole Glass PhotographyShown above is the entrance to the Washington headquarters for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the largest federal law enforcement agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Videos circulated on social…
Cardinal Robert McElroy of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., speaks at the University of Notre Dame forum event on ‘Healing Our National Dialogue and Political Life’ on Oct. 17, 2025. The cardinal spoke at the…
Mario TomassettiPope Leo raises the Eucharist in a monstrance in St. Peter’s Square during the prayer vigil and Rosary for peace on Oct. 11, 2025. The Pope also recalled the light of the love of…
The painting St. Luke the Evangelist in the church Iglesia El Buen Pastor by Miguel Vaguer (1959). / Credit: Renata Sedmakova/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). On Oct. 18, Catholics and…
L to R: Peter To Rot, Sister María del Carmen Rendiles Martínez, Dr. José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, Bartolo Longo COMMENTARY: Canonizations often arrive with providential timing, and the newest saints — from Peter To Rot…