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Bishop Philippe Christory of Chartres, France. / Credit: Eichthus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 23, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).

French Bishop Philippe Christory pointed out that the essence of an advanced civilization “is to promote life and support the lives of those who suffer.”

Antonia Salzano is the mother of St. Carlo Acutis. / Credit: “EWTN Noticias”/Screenshot

ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 23, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

Antonia Salzano, St. Carlo Acutis’ mother, who was present with the rest of her family at his canonization on Sept. 7, shared what it’s like to be the mother of a saint.

St. John Capistrano and St. Bernardine of Siena. Museum of Fine Arts of Granada. Painting, oil on canvas, by Alonso Cano (1653-1657) for an altarpiece of the disappeared Franciscan convent of San Antonio and San Diego, Granada. / Credit: Jl FilpoC, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

CNA Staff, Oct 23, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

On Oct. 23, the Catholic Church celebrates the life of St. John of Capistrano, a Franciscan priest with an extraordinary number of achievements.

Bishop Nicholas Hudson was named the next bishop of Plymouth, England, by Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 21, 2025. / Credit: @mikedavies

Plymouth, England, Oct 22, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 21 named Bishop Nicholas Hudson, an auxiliary bishop of Westminster, as the next bishop of Plymouth, England.

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Rome, Italy, Oct 22, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

Tech companies are offering increasingly realistic and immersive forms of AI-based life coaching, friendship, and romance through AI companions.

French Police officers seal off the entrance to the Louvre Museum after a jewelry heist on Oct. 19, 2025, in Paris. / Credit: Kiran Ridley/Getty Images

Paris, France, Oct 21, 2025 / 13:07 pm (CNA).

Empress Eugénie’s brooch — a piece of jewelery that reflected her religious faith — was stolen in a daring, daylight heist at the Louvre in Paris on Sunday morning.

Capella di Santa Rosa, St. Rosalia’s Chapel inside of the Palermo Cathedral, Basilica Cattedrale Metropolitana Primaziale della Santa Vergine Maria Assunta in Sicily, Itay, on May 5, 2022. / Credit: Frank Bienewald/LightRocket via Getty Images

Rome, Italy, Oct 21, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).

Two southern Italian archbishops have sounded the alarm against the rise of Mafia-style killings among young people in Sicily.   

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. 

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.

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.