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Quebec’s proposed prayer ban ‘like forbidding thought itself,’ Montreal archbishop says

September 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Archbishop Christian Lépine of Montreal, shown in a 2017 photo, has written a public letter opposing the Quebec government’s plan to ban public prayer. / Credit: CNS photo/François Gloutnay, Presence

Quebec City, Canada, Sep 8, 2025 / 17:16 pm … […]

Inspired by Acutis and Frassati: ‘You don’t have to be perfect to be a saint’

September 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Students from the University of Dallas’ Rome semester (left to right: Thomas DeReuil, Eugene Keating, and Jonathan Tindall) attended the canonization of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati in St. Peter’s Square on Sept. 7, 2025. / Credit: Vic… […]

Andrea Bocelli: Pope Leo XIV is ‘a beacon to guide us in these complex times’

September 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Leo XIV greets Italian singer Andrea Bocelli at the inauguration of the Laudato Si’ ecological village at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Sept. 5, 2025. / Credit: EWTN/Screenshot

ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 8, 2025 / 14:43 pm (CNA).
Following the ina… […]

Pope Leo XIV highlights importance of witness of families in today’s world

September 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Leo XIV greets the families of the Vatican / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 8, 2025 / 14:13 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 6 participated in the Vatican’s Festival of Families, where he highlighted the importance of the … […]

King Charles III becomes first monarch to visit Newman’s Birmingham Oratory

September 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 2

Britain’s King Charles III (right); Oratorian Father Ignatius Harrison (left); Daniel Joyce (back left), Newman archivist and librarian, Birmingham Oratory; and Father Anton Guziel (back right) walk during a tour of The Oratory of St. Philip Ner… […]

Federal court approves settlement between sex abuse survivors and Diocese of Rochester

September 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Rochester, New York. / Credit: DanielPenfield via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

CNA Staff, Sep 8, 2025 / 12:37 pm (CNA).
One of the nation’s largest sexual abuse settlements unfolded in a federal bankruptcy court in Ro… […]

For true synodality, counseling needs to be prioritized in Africa, religious sister says

September 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Sister Gisela Rfanyu Shey speaks at the second African Women Theologian Conferece on Sept. 3, 2025, saying that to realize synodality in Africa, the Church should prioritize counseling amid the myriad of scars, including those of colonialism, wa… […]

Diocese investigates sainthood cause of Virginia father who saved son

September 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 2

Tom Vander Woude with two of his grandchildren, Michael and Bobby Vander Woude (from left to right). The Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, is investigating Tom Vander Woude’s cause for sainthood almost two decades after he died saving his son. / C… […]

Mary’s birthday: The Church celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

September 8, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

A painting of St. Joachim, the little Virgin Mary, and St. Anne in the Church of San Francesco in Reggio Emilia, Italy. / Credit: Renata Sedmakova/Shutterstock

CNA Staff, Sep 8, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).
The Catholic Church celebrates the birth of… […]

Chicago chefs to open eco-friendly restaurant at Vatican’s papal retreat

September 7, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Visiting pilgrims to the Vatican Gardens at Castel Gandolfo during the 2025 Jubilee Year will have the opportunity to taste the produce of Borgo Laudato Si’s organic farm, where olive oil will be pressed from the estate’s 1,000 olive trees and a… […]

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