A group of African nuns, Disciples of the Sacred Heart, line up for the procession that will follow Pope Francis’ funeral on Saturday, April 26, 2025. / Credit: Ursula Murua/EWTN News Vatican City, Apr 25, 2025 / 19:39 pm (CNA). Pope Francis passed away at 7:35 a.m. local time on Easter Monday, April 21, at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta, as confirmed by the Holy See Press […]

Cardinal Christophe Pierre speaks to EWTN News President and COO Montse Alvarado in Rome on Friday, April 25, 2025. / Credit: EWTN News CNA Staff, Apr 25, 2025 / 19:36 pm (CNA). Pope Francis asked us “to be a Church which announces the good news of Christ,” Cardinal Christophe Pierre said on Friday, one of the many fruits of the Holy Spirit’s having selected the late Argentine prelate to […]

The archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, speaks to EWTN News on Friday, April 25, 2025, in Rome. / Crdit: EWTN News/Screenshot CNA Staff, Apr 25, 2025 / 19:16 pm (CNA). The late Pope Francis was “a man of the heart” who preached tenderness and mercy to the global Church, New York archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan said on Friday. Dolan spoke to EWTN News President and COO Montse […]

Left: Ismael with his friend Dalia, who traveled from Barcelona, Spain. Right: Nadia Trujillo, Ana Asensio, and their friend who joined them from Portugal. / Credit: Ursula Murua/EWTN News CNA Staff, Apr 25, 2025 / 18:56 pm (CNA). At 9:45 p.m. Rome time, 12 hours before Pope Francis’ funeral is set to take place, the first of thousands of pilgrims were already lining up along the streets to […]