An armed police officer talks to a member of the local community outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, England, on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. / Credit: OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images

EWTN News, Oct 2, 2025 / 10:40 am (CNA).

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales released Bishop John Arnold’s statement following the assault at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue.

A 13th-century fresco of St. Francis of Assisi by the Florentine painter Cimabue, one of the earliest depictions of the saint, is located in the lower church of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Assisi, Italy.  / Credit: Jacob Stein/Crux Stationalis

Rome Newsroom, Oct 2, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).

Oct. 4 will therefore be a public holiday in Italy starting in 2026, after having been a public holiday until 1977.

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London, England, Oct 1, 2025 / 14:35 pm (CNA).

A bioethicist in the United Kingdom said legalizing assisted dying there could threaten hospices’ survival.

Monsignor Melchor Sánchez de Toca, relator of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. / Credit: Diocese of Vitoria

ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 1, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

The relator for the Vatican's Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Monsignor Melchor Sánchez de Toca, said the lives of the saints “pierce our conscience.”

The flag of Slovakia, pictured in the country’s capital, Bratislava. / Credit: RossHelen/Shutterstock

Rome, Italy, Sep 30, 2025 / 11:30 am (CNA).

Slovakia’s recently-amended constitution, which aims to protect family, marriage, and parenthood, has been called an “important step” by the Conference of Bishops of Slovakia.

Saint Jerome Writing, a painting by Caravaggio, dated to 1605–06. / Credit: Public domain

CNA Staff, Sep 30, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

The Vulgate became the predominantly used Bible of the Middle Ages and has endured to this day.

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Rome, Italy, Sep 29, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

What exactly is transhumanism, and how does the Church approach it? 

The longtime pro-life advocate Anna Záborská served in both the Slovak and European Parliaments during her political career. / Credit: The Collegium of Anton Neuwirth

Rome, Italy, Sep 27, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

Anna Záborská, 77, built a career spanning both Slovak and European Parliaments while championing traditional family values, religious freedom, and the rights of the unborn.

St. Vincent de Paul. / Credit: Public domain

CNA Staff, Sep 27, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

On Sept. 27 the Catholic Church remembers St. Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century French priest known as the patron of Catholic charities.

Cardinal Lucian Mureşan, major archbishop of the Greek Catholic Church in Romania, died Sept. 25, 2025, at age 94. / Credit: Mihai Andrei, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 26, 2025 / 15:58 pm (CNA).

Cardinal Lucian Mureşan carried out his ministry clandestinely until 1989. According to Vatican News, he died at his residence in Blaj, Romania, after several months of illness.