Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful in St. Peter's Basilica, May 31, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, May 31, 2025 / 17:58 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has praised an international bioethics summit in Rome for advancing an “authentically human” approach to science, urging researchers to […]

The faithful march in the Drexel Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, Tulsa, Friday, May 30, 2025 / Credit: 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrims CNA Newsroom, May 31, 2025 / 17:15 pm (CNA). Eucharistic pilgrims in Oklahoma are being urged by leaders to respond to anti-Catholic protests […]

A shanty town in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in November 2013. / Ilona Budzbon/Aid to the Church in Need. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 31, 2025 / 11:30 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week.Sierra Leone limits physical contact at Mass amid mpox outbreak Freetown […]

 In the morning, the Holy Blood is venerated in Saint Salvator Cathedral during a Eucharistic celebration, with Archbishop of Tehran Cardinal Mathieu concelebrating. Then during the procession, he carries the reliquary for part of the route. May 28, 2025. / Credit: Thomas P. Reiter Bruges, […]

Antonia Salzano Acutis speaks to the faithful in New York City on Thursday, May 29, 2025 / Credit: Sabrina Ferrisi New York City, N.Y., May 31, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA). Antonia Salzano Acutis, the mother of soon-to-be canonized Carlo Acutis, spoke to a capacity crowd of more than 2,500 people at St. […]

El Salvador's massive Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT, by its Spanish acronym). / Credit: Courtesy of Office of the President of El Salvador, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, May 31, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA). As El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele marks his sixth anniversary in […]

Pope Leo XIV delivers his homily during the ordination of 11 new priests for the Diocese of Rome at St. Peter's Basilica on May 31, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, May 31, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV ordained 11 new priests for the Diocese of Rome on Saturday during a […]

Just a mention of Lough Derg summons tales of sleep deprivation, discomfort, and hunger, but it’s a deeply spiritual place of renewal and hope, from which faithful pilgrims often emerge reborn through the rituals of self-purification. / Credit: Lough Derg Dublin, Ireland, May 31, 2025 / 09:00 am […]

The dome of the Cathedral of St. Bavo in Haarlem, the Netherlands. / Credit: Frank de ruyter via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0 NL) Vatican City, May 31, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). The Church in the Netherlands is gaining momentum thanks to the “creative minority” of young people rediscovering the […]

The garden created at Mepkin Abbey is a way to honor and recognize the enslaved who lived and died on the property for 100 years. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Mepkin Abbey Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 31, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). On a piece of land in South Carolina where hundreds of Indigenous and […]

An attendee prays the rosary during a demonstration called by the association “La Marche pour la vie” against abortion and euthanasia in Versailles, southwest of Paris, on March 4, 2024. / Credit: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP via Getty Images Paris, France, May 31, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The […]

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for his general audience on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA CNA Newsroom, May 30, 2025 / 23:19 pm (CNA). Follow our live coverage as Pope Leo XIV, first U.S.-born pope in history, begins his […]

Pope Leo XIV with Peruvian registrars this Friday, May 30, at the Vatican. / Credit: Courtesy of Andina/Peru News Agency Lima Newsroom, May 30, 2025 / 19:23 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV has updated his personal information for a new Peruvian national identity document (DNI, by its Spanish acronym), […]

Robert Royal discusses his new book “The Martyrs of the New Millennium” during the May 29, 2025, edition of “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo.” / Credit: “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo”/Screenshot Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 30, 2025 / 18:53 pm (CNA). The whole nature of […]

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York urged state lawmakers to oppose euthanasia in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on May 29, 2025. / Credit: Peter Zelasko/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 30, 2025 / 18:23 pm (CNA). Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York is asking […]