Bishop Erik Varden. / Credit: Pål Johannes Nes

CNA Newsroom, Aug 30, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA).

Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim and Bishop Fredrik Hansen of Oslo also voiced concern about growing political support for euthanasia.

The Council of Nicaea in 325 as depicted in a fresco in Salone Sistino at the Vatican. / Credit: Giovanni Guerra (1544-1618), Cesare Nebbia (1534-1614) e aiuti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Stampa, Aug 29, 2025 / 16:28 pm (CNA).

Cardinal Kurt Koch and Bartholomew, Eastern Orthodox ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople marked the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. 

Pope Leo XIV speaks to pilgrims at the general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican City, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 28, 2025 / 15:02 pm (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV recalled what the “life and witness” of St. Augustine means for Christians on the day the Catholic Church celebrates his feast day, Aug. 28.

The statue of Our Lady, sculpted in 1430 by Nicolò da Venezia, in the sanctuary of the Basilica of St. Mary of Mount Berico. / Credit: Kristina Millare/CNA

Rome Newsroom, Aug 25, 2025 / 13:36 pm (CNA).

Since 1435, the Servants of Mary — also known as the Servites — have been the official custodians of the Sanctuary of St. Mary of Mount Berico in Italy.

Bernhard Scholz is president of the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples, also known as the Rimini meeting, which offers an extensive program of activities (political, economic, cultural, etc.) that brings thousands of people from various religions and walks of life each year during the last week of August to the town of Rimini on Italy’s Adriatic coast. / Credit: Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 16:15 pm (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV called for “faith, hope, and charity to be translated into a great cultural conversion” in a message for the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples.

Flowers stand before Knock Shrine in Knock, Ireland, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA

Knock, Ireland, Aug 21, 2025 / 13:20 pm (CNA).

“We have a very, very big outreach here in terms of confessions,” Father Richard Gibbons, who has led the shrine for more than a decade, told CNA.

View of the Greek island of Syros. / Credit: Hans Peter Schaefer/Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

CNA Newsroom, Aug 21, 2025 / 10:51 am (CNA).

Priests in the Catholic Diocese of Syros in Greece face charges in nightclub money laundering scandal.

The Kiruna Church on the move in northern Sweden, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. / Credit: TorbjørnS/Wikimeda (CC BY 4.0)

CNA Newsroom, Aug 20, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).

The mammoth move has seen the wooden structure, weighing over 600 tons, transported on specialized trailers traveling at about 1,600 feet per hour.

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

CNA Staff, Aug 20, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

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

Young people on the esplanade of Tor Vergata during the vigil with Pope Leo XIV. / Credit: Courtesy of Claudia Arrieta

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 19, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

One million young people returned to their countries after participating in the 2025 Jubilee of Youth. Now they have a mission: to take that message and testimony home.