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. /… Poll finds evival of interest in religion in Northern Ireland among young people
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… Leo XIV on World Mission Sunday: ‘Will the Son of Man find faith on Earth?’
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… Children from African countries pray rosary ‘for the first time’ in global campaign
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 canonizes 7 new saints, including first from Venezuela and Papua New Guinea
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… Pope Leo XIV appeals for peace in Myanmar
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… Department of Homeland Security Denies ICE Targeted Chicago Parish
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… Cardinal McElroy of Washington Urges Shift Away From Political Polarization
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… Pope Leo to Grieving Father: ‘Death Never Has the Last Word’
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… St. Luke: The cultured physician who chronicled the life of Jesus
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… These 7 New Saints Are Arriving at Just the Right Time