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Central Europe Catholics crucial for peace in Europe, U.S. ambassador says
Posted on 11/26/2025 15:15 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Interior of the Church of Jesus and Mary in Rome, Italy / Credit: Mentnafunangann / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Rome, Italy, Nov 26, 2025 / 10:15 am (CNA).
At a Mass marking 25 years since the Holy See signed a foundational agreement with Slovakia, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch praised the “rich history” of Catholic peoples in Central Europe.
Caritas Ukraine leads efforts to reintegrate children taken by Russia in war
Posted on 11/26/2025 11:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Pope Leo XIV meets with Ukrainian children who were welcomed by Caritas Italy during the summer on July 3, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media
CNA Staff, Nov 26, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
At the forefront of the work of repatriation and recovery of Ukrainian children swept up in the country’s war with Russia is Caritas Ukraine.
Slovenia rejects euthanasia law in referendum, freezes issue for at least a year
Posted on 11/26/2025 10:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
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EWTN News, Nov 26, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA).
Slovenia rejected euthanasia legislation in a Nov. 23 referendum, with 53% voting against the law backed by Catholic bishops and civil groups.
Prince Albert II blocks bill expanding abortion law in defense of Monaco’s Catholic identity
Posted on 11/25/2025 22:01 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Prince Albert II of Monaco in 2025. / Credit: VALERY HACHE/Getty Images
ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 25, 2025 / 17:01 pm (CNA).
Prince Albert II of Monaco has announced that he will not sign into law a bill that aims to relax the conditions for accessing abortion in the European microstate.
3 German bishops oppose school guide on ‘diversity of sexual identities’
Posted on 11/24/2025 21:08 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
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EWTN News, Nov 24, 2025 / 16:08 pm (CNA).
Published on Oct. 30, the document is intended to serve as an orientation aid for Catholic and other schools in Germany.
Why Pope Pius XI established the feast of Christ the King in a turbulent 1925
Posted on 11/23/2025 09:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
The Chapel of Christ the King at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. / Credit: Courtesy of Christendom College
Dublin, Ireland, Nov 23, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).
The feast of Christ the King was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 following his encyclical Quas Primas. Today it is celebrated on the final Sunday before Advent.
The laywoman whose mission helped lead to the feast of Christ the King
Posted on 11/22/2025 18:00 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
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Dublin, Ireland, Nov 22, 2025 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
How Marthe de Noaillat championed Christ’s kingship against all odds.
Report links rising childlessness to abortion amid record-low fertility in England, Wales
Posted on 11/22/2025 11:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Kevin Duffy'’s analysis of ONS conceptions data over the 10 years to 2022 illustrates that approximately half of women who have not had a child by the age of 30 would not have been childless without abortion in the years before this. Duffy says: “For these women it was a decision upon becoming pregnant, not to continue into motherhood at that time, for a whole myriad of reasons.” / Credit: Courtesy of Kevin Duffy
London, England, Nov 22, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
A report called “Abortion and Childlessness” shows that many women who have abortions in their 20s may be faced with the real risk of remaining childless at 45.
Joy in Dublin as papal designation gives city first Catholic cathedral since Reformation
Posted on 11/21/2025 17:09 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Archbishop Dermot Farrell of the Dublin Archdiocese holds up the decree on Nov. 14, 2025, that Pope Leo XIV sent him granting his request that St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Dublin be designated as the cathedral Church of the archdiocese. / Credit: John McElroy/Dublin Archdiocese
Dublin, Ireland, Nov 21, 2025 / 12:09 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV formally designated St. Mary’s Pro Cathedral as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Dublin, ending 200 years of the cathedral’s “temporary” status.
One-third of recent Catholic priests in England are Anglican converts, report shows
Posted on 11/21/2025 11:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
The ordination of Jonathan Goodall (former Anglican bishop) to the Catholic priesthood in Westminster Cathedral, London, March 12, 2022. / Credit: Mazur/CBCEW.org.uk
London, England, Nov 21, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
The U.K. has seen a significant rise in Anglican clergy, including bishops, converting to Catholicism, according to a new report released Nov. 20.