The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need reminds us that “women religious are often on the front lines of wars.” / Credit: ACN

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 13, 2025 / 16:55 pm (CNA).

Aid to the Church in Need joined the International Union of Superiors General in its call to pray and fast for world peace on Aug. 14.

The side of Toulouse Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Toulouse) in Toulouse in the South of France. / Credit: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 12, 2025 / 14:24 pm (CNA).

The French bishops’ conference has asked the archbishop of Toulouse to rescind the promotion of a priest who served time in prison for the rape of a minor boy.

St. James Roman Catholic Church in Reading, England, is the starting point of the English route of the Camino de Santiago. / Credit: Kevin Hellon/Shutterstock

London, England, Aug 12, 2025 / 13:52 pm (CNA).

Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth is concerned about a proposal to build a huge solar farm on the English stretch of the Camino de Santiago in the south of England.

The parish priest of St. Patrick in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, Canon John Murray, is in a “serious but stable” condition in hospital following the Aug. 10, 2025, assault in which his fingers were broken while defending himself. / Credit: Pacemaker

Dublin, Ireland, Aug 11, 2025 / 11:27 am (CNA).

The parish priest of Downpatrick, Canon John Murray, is in a “serious but stable” condition in the hospital following the assault in which his fingers were broken.

Twenty-four-year-old Father Miguel Tovar of the Diocese of Cartagena, Spain. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Diocese of Cartagena

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 9, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV told one of the youngest priests in Spain, recently-ordained Father Miguel Tovar, 24, to never lose “the joy of the priesthood.”

Daniel O'Connell, lithograph attributed to R. Evan Sly (EP OCON-DA (17) II) from the National Library of Ireland. / Credit: National Library of Ireland

Dublin, Ireland, Aug 9, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

Daniel O’Connell’s efforts culminated in the passage of the Catholic Relief Act of 1829, which allowed Catholics to sit in Parliament and hold public office. 

St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. / Credit: Babouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 8, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

According to Father Francisco Javier Calvo, Pope Leo XIV’s announcement that St. John Henry Newman will be declared a doctor of the Church represents “enormous hope.”

“St. Dominic of Guzman” by Claudio Coello, circa 1685. / Credit: Claudio Coello, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Rome Newsroom, Aug 8, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

St. Dominic’s divine fire still burns through preaching and prayer throughout the world.

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CNA Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 09:53 am (CNA).

Marine Rosset, the briefly-tenured chief of France’s Scouts et Guides de France, bowed out following a fierce backlash.

St. Hedwig Cathedral in Berlin, Germany. / Credit: Cedric BLN via Wikimedia (Public domain)

CNA Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 09:23 am (CNA).

Five German dioceses have explicitly refused to implement a pastoral handout, all referencing the Vatican’s Fiducia Supplicans as their standard.