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French senators urge action against rising anti-Christian attacks in the country
Posted on 10/20/2025 15:51 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
A view of the French Senate in Paris on Feb. 1, 2023. / Credit: Victor Velter/Shutterstock
Paris, France, Oct 20, 2025 / 11:51 am (CNA).
Eighty-six French senators have signed a public appeal denouncing the alarming rise of anti-Christian acts in France.
Poll finds revival of interest in religion in Northern Ireland among young people
Posted on 10/19/2025 11:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
The All Ireland Rosary Rally has attracted increasingly larger crowds. This year’s rally included a youth conference and a prayer vigil in the basilica to welcome the feast of Pentecost on June 8, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the All Ireland Rosary Rally
Dublin, Ireland, Oct 19, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
A new poll commissioned by the Iona Institute has found a marked revival of interest in religion among young people in Northern Ireland.
2 priests in Spain threatened with prison for criticizing radical Islam are acquitted
Posted on 10/18/2025 10:30 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Father Custodio Ballester, a Spanish priest, was acquitted of hate crimes along with another priest and a journalist. / Credit: Photo courtesy of HazteOir.org
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 06:30 am (CNA).
Two priests and a journalist who were tried for criticizing radical Islam have been acquitted by the Provincial Court of Malaga in Spain.
St. Ignatius of Antioch: The early Church Father who longed for union with Christ
Posted on 10/17/2025 08:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
St. Ignatius of Antioch with the child Jesus. / Credit: Lorenzo Lotto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
CNA Staff, Oct 17, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).
On Oct. 17, the Catholic Church remembers the early Church Father, bishop, and martyr St. Ignatius of Antioch.
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and the story behind devotion to the Sacred Heart
Posted on 10/16/2025 09:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Apparition of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. / Credit: Alacoque, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
CNA Staff, Oct 16, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA).
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was a French nun responsible for spreading the devotion of the Sacred Heart throughout the Western Church.
Pope Leo XIV appoints Cardinal Cupich to Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State
Posted on 10/15/2025 19:43 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Pope Leo and Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/EWTN News
CNA Staff, Oct 15, 2025 / 15:43 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich to the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, the Holy See said on Wednesday.
Pope Leo XIV gifted with ‘Proton,’ a purebred Arabian horse
Posted on 10/15/2025 18:35 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Pope Leo with ‘Proton’ / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 15, 2025 / 14:35 pm (CNA).
Before the general audience on Oct. 15, Pope Leo XIV was gifted with a 12-year-old purebred Arabian horse named Proton.
Religious education experts: Bursary cut is ‘huge blow’ to Catholic schools in UK
Posted on 10/15/2025 10:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Religious education teacher and author Andy Lewis, assistant principal at St. Bonaventure Catholic Secondary School in London, told CNA he believes the move to cut the bursary for religious education will have a “huge” impact on the ability of Catholic schools to recruit religious education teachers. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Andy Lewis
London, England, Oct 15, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Religious education experts in the United Kingdom have slammed bursary cuts, calling the move a risk to the mission of Catholic schools.
St. Teresa of Ávila’s body remains incorrupt after almost 5 centuries
Posted on 10/15/2025 08:00 AM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Opening of the silver tomb of St. Teresa of Ávila; portrait of St. Teresa of Ávila. / Credit: Order of Carmel
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 15, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).
The body of St. Teresa of Avila, a doctor of the Church whose feast day is celebrated Oct. 15, was still incorrupt when examined last year almost five centuries after her death.
Cardinal Parolin on St. Carlo Acutis: Many ‘touched by his smile’ when they see his photo
Posted on 10/13/2025 20:13 PM (EWTN News - World Catholic News)
Cardinal Pietro Parolin greets the parents of St. Carlo Acutis before Mass at Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Assisi, Italy, on Oct. 12, 2025. / Credit: Diocese of Assisi
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 13, 2025 / 16:13 pm (CNA).
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said that Carlo Acutis spoke of Jesus with a “radiant" and "smiling" face.