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Pope Francis prays during his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Jan 2, 2025 / 09:40 am (CNA). Pope Francis offered his condolences after 15 people were killed in New Orleans when a U.S. Army veteran drove a pickup truck with […]

Pilgrims cross the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on Dec. 25, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 2, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). A jubilee is one of the most significant events of the Catholic Church that occurs only every 25 years.With the beginning of the 2025 […]

null / Credit: perfectlab/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 2, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Australian lawmakers sent shockwaves around the world recently by passing a law — the first of its kind in the world — that will ban children under age 16 from common social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok. The Online Safety […]

A Sister of the Missionaries of Charity touches the bronze Holy Door at the papal basilica during its opening for the 2025 Jubilee Year. The religious sister, wearing the distinctive white and blue habit of the order founded by Mother Teresa, joins other faithful in this traditional gesture of devotion as they pass through the […]

FBI investigators arrive at the scene where a pickup truck crashed into a work lift after allegedly driving into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Jan. 1, 2025. / Credit: MATTHEW HINTON/AFP via Getty Images CNA Staff, Jan 1, 2025 / 11:50 am (CNA). Archbishop Gregory Aymond […]

Supporters of former president Donald Trump watch as he holds a rally in the historically Democratic district of the South Bronx on May 23, 2024, in New York City. / Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jan 1, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Both Latino and white Catholic voters shifted toward President-elect Donald Trump […]

Cardinal Angelo Amato. / Credit: Presidencia El Salvador/Wikimedia (CC0) CNA Newsroom, Jan 1, 2025 / 08:33 am (CNA). Cardinal Angelo Amato, the former prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints who oversaw numerous significant canonizations including that of Mother Teresa, died Dec. 31. He was 86.A member of the Salesians of Don […]

Pope Francis speaks to the crowd gathered on St. Peter’s Square, Jan. 1, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Newsroom, Jan 1, 2025 / 07:30 am (CNA). Pope Francis marked the Angelus prayer on the first day of 2025 by calling on Christian nations to set an example through debt relief for the world’s poorest […]

Pope Francis delivers his homily during the Jan. 1, 2025, Mass at St. Peter's Basilica, marking both the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God and the 58th World Day of Peace. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA CNA Newsroom, Jan 1, 2025 / 06:35 am (CNA). Pope Francis began 2025 with a plea for peace and the […]

St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Thoom/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 1, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). On foot, by bicycle, and even on horseback, throngs of pilgrims arrive each day at the tomb of St. Peter in the Vatican, the goal of a journey undertaken by many as an act of faith. There are a […]