Cardinal Daniel Sturla testifies before Uruguay’s Senate Health Committee on Sept. 30, 2025. / Credit: Courtesy of Senate of the Republic of Uruguay ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 2, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The archbishop… Cardinal Sturla defends life as Uruguay debates euthanasia
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… It’s official: St. Francis’ feast day back to being a national holiday in Italy
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… Cardinal McElroy Calls for Solidarity With Immigrants Lacking Legal Status
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… Pope Leo XIV Says Hegseth’s Talk of War Is ‘Worrying’
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… Brooklyn Bishop Calls On Faithful to Lobby Against New York Assisted Suicide Legislation
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 at the Vatican on Sept. 11, 2025. Leo recommended cultivation of friendship with Jesus first and foremost.
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… Christians in Chad complain of Islamicization of public institutions
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… Pope Leo channels his inner Benedict XVI by extolling ‘healthy secularism’
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… Are modern Bible translations always better? A Catholic linguist praises St. Jerome’s Vulgate