Shushu, with her husband, Josemi, and their son, Emmanuel, during JEMJ at the Covadonga shrine. / Credit: Almudena Martínez-Bordiú/EWTN News

Madrid, Spain, Jul 16, 2025 / 17:15 pm (CNA).

A young Chinese mother shares the testimony of her conversion from atheism to Catholicism.

View of the mass grave at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in the town of Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. / Credit: AugusteBlanqui, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 16, 2025 / 15:45 pm (CNA).

A team of archaeologists, anthropologists, and forensic scientists have begun excavating an old septic tank this week at the former St. Mary’s Mother and Baby Home.

Photos of Pier Giorgio Frassati climbing in the Alps. The right photo shows him rappelling Rocca Sella on March 30, 1925. / Credit: Associazione Pier Giorgio Frassati Torino

Turin, Italy, Jul 16, 2025 / 08:45 am (CNA).

The Catholic Church is preparing to canonize Pier Giorgio Frassati — a 24-year-old Italian from Turin, Italy, who was a skilled mountain climber and skier in the Alps.

Keizersberg Abbey in Leuven, Belgium. / Credit: Johan Bakker, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Leuven, Belgium, Jul 16, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

The Keizersberg Abbey community in Leuven, Belgium, has been suspended as canonical investigation reveals “transgressive behavior” among adults.

Notre-Dame de Paris (French for “Our Lady of Paris”), also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is among the largest and most well-known church buildings in the world. / Credit: Sam valadi, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 14, 2025 / 18:10 pm (CNA).

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has become the most visited place in France. Since reopening its doors, it has welcomed more than 6 million people.

The funeral of Matteo Balzano, a young Italian priest who recently took his own life at the age of 35, was held July 8, 2025, in the presence of the faithful — especially young people — he served at the parish in Cannobio in the Piedmont region. / Credit: Courtesy of Italian Episcopal Conference

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 14, 2025 / 16:53 pm (CNA).

The funeral of Matteo Balzano, a young Italian priest who took his own life at the age of 35, was held in the presence of the faithful he served.

French Catholic priest Abbe Pierre takes part in a demonstration on May 6, 1994. / Credit: JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images

CNA Staff, Jul 12, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA).

The famed French priest has already been accused by several dozen people of inflicting abuse over the course of several decades.

A view from an upper window of Sacra di San Michele, Italy, July 2025. / Credit: Emma Silvestri

Paris, France, Jul 12, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

“St. Michael’s Sword” is a line that follows the locations of seven sanctuaries dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel from Ireland to Jerusalem.

Portrait of St. Benedict (1926) by Herman Nieg (1849–1928); Heiligenkreuz Abbey, Austria; “Exorcism of St. Benedict,” by Spinello Aretino, late 14th century. / Credit: Public domain

National Catholic Register, Jul 11, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

St. Benedict, whose feast the Catholic Church celebrates on July 11, endured constant attacks from the enemy throughout his life.

St. Benedict. / Credit: Pietro Perugino via Wikimedia (Public domain)

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 11, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA).

Archbishop Enrique Benavent Vidal of Valencia, Spain, encouraged the faithful to take advantage of summer vacation to delve deeper into the Rule of St. Benedict.