During the Olympics, track and field athletes rang the bronze bell at the Saint-Denis’ Stade de France and now that same bill will ring during Masses when Notre Dame Cathedral reopens this December. / Credit: MAGALI COHEN/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images

CNA Staff, Aug 25, 2024 / 05:16 am (CNA).

A bell made for the recent Paris Olympics will be rung during Masses when Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris reopens in December.

A member of the Dominican Sisters’ Congregation of St. Rose of Lima in northern Italy sells prints at the Santa’s Sanctuary of Lima. / Credit: Abel Camasca/ACI

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 23, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA).

St. Rose was a Dominican tertiary. The Catholic Church celebrates her feast day on Aug. 23, though it was formerly celebrated Aug. 30.

The King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels on Sept. 4, 2020. / Credit: MARTIN BUREAU/AFP via Getty Images

Vatican City, Aug 22, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).

After becoming available for free online, 32,000 tickets for the Sept. 29 Mass were snatched up in just 90 minutes, surprising local organizers of the pope’s trip.

Cardinal Peter Erdö. / Credit: Thaler Tamas, CC 30/CNA

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 17:06 pm (CNA).

In an interview ahead of the Aug. 20 feast of St. Stephen of Hungary, Cardinal Peter Erdö recalled how he learned the faith from his parents.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux. / Credit: Sistermaryhelen, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons

CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2024 / 04:00 am (CNA).

St. Bernard is considered the last of the Church Fathers in the Western tradition.

“The focus must be on providing care, not providing a cheap death,” Scotland’s bishops declared. Photo of the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh. / Credit: Reinhold Möller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 19, 2024 / 16:20 pm (CNA).

If passed an assisted-dying bill in Scotland would allow terminally ill adults over 16 to be provided with assistance in ending their own lives.

Isabel Vaughan-Spruce. / Credit: ADF UK

CNA Newsroom, Aug 19, 2024 / 11:19 am (CNA).

The settlement comes as the U.K. government is reportedly set to strengthen its crackdown on silent prayer near abortion facilities by labeling it “criminal.”

Galway Bishop Michael Duignan said in a statement on Friday that the news of the stabbing of a Catholic chaplain was “deeply shocking and upsetting.” / Credit: Olliebailie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

CNA Staff, Aug 16, 2024 / 14:50 pm (CNA).

Father Paul Murphy was reportedly stabbed multiple times on Thursday outside of Renmore Army Barracks in the coastal town of Galway.

The Sistine Chapel. / Credit: marcobrivio.photography/Shutterstock

CNA Staff, Aug 15, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).

The famous chapel derives its name from the man who consecrated it: Pope Sixtus IV, who served as the Roman pontiff from 1471 to 1484.

Our Lady of Lourdes grotto, Lourdes, France. / Credit: Elise Harris/CNA

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 14, 2024 / 17:22 pm (CNA).

According to BFMTV, the French minister of the interior instructed local officials to advise Christian leaders on preventative security measures.