Smoke billows from the spire of Rouen Cathedral in Rouen, northern France, on July 11, 2024. / Credit: PATRICK STREIFF/AFP via Getty Images

CNA Newsroom, Jul 11, 2024 / 10:10 am (CNA).

Rouen Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol confirmed the incident on social media, sharing an image showing smoke rising from the cathedral’s spire.

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaks during a conference on “The General State of the Birth Rate” in Rome on May 12, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 11, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).

This initiative offers aid of 1,000 euros (about $1,082) for five years to Italian women who decide to continue with their pregnancy despite financial difficulties.

Pope Francis greets medical workers administering the vaccine against COVID-19 April 2, 2021. / Credit: Holy See Press Office

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 10, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).

Regarding preparations for another pandemic, “everything possible must be done to keep the churches open and operational,” said Dr. José María Simón Castellví.

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Linz, Austria, is the largest church building in that country. / Credit: Dein Freund der Baum, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

CNA Deutsch, Jul 9, 2024 / 16:25 pm (CNA).

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller described the statue as “advertising for feminist ideology that violates the natural sense of modesty.”

Smoke billows into the air behind a Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Kyiv, Ukraine, after a missile attack on July 8, 2024. / Credit: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

CNA Staff, Jul 9, 2024 / 12:19 pm (CNA).

Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said in a video accompanying a Monday press release that the strike was “a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance.”

Our Lady of Christendom is an annual pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Covadonga (Asturias) that takes place around the feast of St. James the Apostle (July 25), patron saint of Spain. / Credit: Our Lady of Christendom Pilgrimage

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 9, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).

The organizers of the fourth edition of the pilgrimage announced the prohibition in a July 6 post on X.

The German Parliament building in Berlin. / Credit: canadastock/Shutterstock

CNA Newsroom, Jul 8, 2024 / 13:30 pm (CNA).

The proposed Pregnancy Conflict Act claims to protect pregnant women from what supporters call “sidewalk harassment” by pro-life activists.

An image of the annunciation and the incarnation — when God became man in the womb of the Virgin Mary — was placed close to the altar during a Mass Pope Francis celebrated on July 7, 2024, in Trieste, Italy. The pope was in Trieste to attend the last morning of a July 3-7 Catholic conference on the topic of democracy. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Jul 7, 2024 / 10:41 am (CNA).

Pope Francis on Sunday highlighted the plight of migrants and prisoners during a Mass in Trieste, Italy, for the closing of the 50th Social Week of Catholics.

Pope Francis speaks at the 50th annual Social Week of Catholics in Trieste, Italy, on the morning of July 7, 2024. At his arrival in the northern Italian city, he was greeted by Archbishop Luigi Renna, president of the organizing committee (right), and Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, president of the Italian bishops' conference (left). / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Jul 7, 2024 / 08:06 am (CNA).

Pope Francis defended democracy and criticized political polarization while urging Catholics to share their faith in the public square during a visit to Trieste, Italy.

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ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 6, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).

A lawyer said the account was created before the marriage, was not disclosed by the wife to the husband, and was continued after they were married.