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Father Raffaele Grimaldi, inspector general of chaplains in Italian prisons. / Credit: Almudena Martínez-Bordiú/ACI Prensa ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 11, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Pope Francis decided to open for the first time in history a Holy Door in the [...]

Black smoke billows over the city after drone strikes in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Sept. 19, 2023, amid Russia's military invasion on Ukraine. / Credit: YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP via Getty Images Rome Newsroom, Mar 10, 2025 / 17:15 [...]

Father Don José Pablo de Jesús Tamayo Rodríguez has been excommunicated for asserting that Francis is not the legitimate pontiff because he is a Freemason and that Pope Benedict XVI did not fully resign his office. --- (LifeSiteNews) –– Costa Rican [...]

The film’s prescription for a future pope coincides with the current Pope’s autobiographical reflections. Why might that be? The dean of the College of Cardinals, played brilliantly by Ralph Fiennes, The post ‘Conclave’ movie cardinal’s homily mirrors some of Pope [...]

Thousands of volunteers in colorful safety vests fill St. Peter’s Square during the Jubilee of Volunteers at the Vatican on Mar. 9, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Rome Newsroom, Mar 9, 2025 / 13:20 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Sunday thanked [...]

For the first time in over a week, doctors have spoken of an improvement in Pope Francis' condition, though warned about the remaining complex scenario for the Pope. --- News For the first time in over a week, doctors have spoken of [...]

Pope Francis is hugged by a young visitor at his general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, Mar 8, 2025 / 06:45 am (CNA). As Pope Francis continues to receive treatment at Rome’s [...]

Pope Francis sent a brief audio message March 6 thanking those who have been praying for him since his Feb. 14 hospitalization for bilateral pneumonia. The message, delivered in Spanish, was played for those gathered to pray the rosary [...]

The exterior of the new Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine in Oklahoma City. / Credit: Joe Holdren/EWTN News CNA Staff, Mar 6, 2025 / 16:20 pm (CNA). A Catholic charter school is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to approve the nation’s [...]

Father Sylvester Okechukwu of the Diocese of Kafanchan in Nigeria was found murdered on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. / Credit: Diocese of Kafanchan, Nigeria ACI Africa, Mar 6, 2025 / 12:45 pm (CNA). The Diocese of Kafanchan in Nigeria is [...]