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“I pray for those affected by the explosion at a gas station this morning in the Prenestino Labicano neighborhood, in the heart of my diocese,” said Leo XIV in a tweet posted on the Italian version of his X account after a disaster struck eastern Rome on July 3, 2025. The explosion, which was heard throughout the Read More…

Pope prays for victims of explosion “in the heart of my diocese”

From July 26 to August 4, the coffin of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be venerated at the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. This special occasion will be a key element during the Jubilee of Youth, which will be held in Rome from July 28 to August 3. The transfer of his Read More…

Frassati’s coffin to be in Rome ahead of canonization

The US bishops released a brief statement, signed by the current president, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, in response to the passage July 3 of the One Big Beautiful Bill. While the bishops noted that they had commended positive elements in earlier versions of the bill, their take on the final version is that it will cause Read More…

Bishops: Positive aspects were weakened and bill will cause ‘great harm’

Cardinal Dominique Mathieu, archbishop of Tehran, Iran (left), and Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 4, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Here’s a roundup of Catholic... [...]

An organization “End Assisted Suicide,” representing a number of disability advocacy groups, filed suit in Colorado on Monday, June 30, alleging that the state’s assisted suicide law is discriminatory against the disabled. The groups in the coalition include Atlantis ADAPT, United Spinal, Not Dead Yet, Institute for Patients’ Rights, as well as an individual plaintiff Read More…

Disability advocates sue Colorado on assisted suicide law

You’ve probably seen pictures of this young Italian man with a radiant smile, but did you know he loved to climb mountains and secretly helped the poor? That’s just the beginning of what might surprise you about this beloved modern saint (he will be canonized September 7!). Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati was “a man of Read More…

Catholic trivia: How well do you know Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati?

Members of a delegation from the United Nations and OCHA, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, made a surprise visit to Holy Family Church on Tuesday, July 1. The visit was reported by Agenzia S.I.R. (SIR), the news agency of the Catholic Church in Italy. Holy Family Church is the only Read More…

UN visits Gaza Catholic parish; Caritas decries ‘starve or be shot’

The National Catholic Bioethics Center’s Edward J. Furton speaks at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., on June 25, 2025. / Credit: Tessa Gervasini/CNA Washington D.C., Jul 4, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Ahead of the celebration of ... [...]

St. Catherine’s Monastery has continuously fostered vocations at the foot of Mount Sinai since the sixth century. Its future, however, has come under siege from the Egyptian government.

While Catholic youth ministers and young adult group leaders all over the world think he’s a rock star, most Catholics have never heard of him. Since Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925) is scheduled to be declared [...]