Pope Leo and Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/EWTN News

CNA Staff, Oct 15, 2025 / 15:43 pm (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich to the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, the Holy See said on Wednesday. 

Pope Leo with ‘Proton’ / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 15, 2025 / 14:35 pm (CNA).

Before the general audience on Oct. 15, Pope Leo XIV was gifted with a 12-year-old purebred Arabian horse named Proton.

Religious education teacher and author Andy Lewis, assistant principal at St. Bonaventure Catholic Secondary School in London, told CNA he believes the move to cut the bursary for religious education will have a “huge” impact on the ability of Catholic schools to recruit religious education teachers. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Andy Lewis

London, England, Oct 15, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

Religious education experts in the United Kingdom have slammed bursary cuts, calling the move a risk to the mission of Catholic schools.

Opening of the silver tomb of St. Teresa of Ávila; portrait of St. Teresa of Ávila. / Credit: Order of Carmel

ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 15, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

The body of St. Teresa of Avila, a doctor of the Church whose feast day is celebrated Oct. 15, was still incorrupt when examined last year almost five centuries after her death.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin greets the parents of St. Carlo Acutis before Mass at Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Assisi, Italy, on Oct. 12, 2025. / Credit: Diocese of Assisi

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

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said that Carlo Acutis spoke of Jesus with a “radiant" and "smiling" face.

St. Carlo Acutis. / Credit: carloacutis.com

ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 13, 2025 / 14:42 pm (CNA).

An Oct. 11 fire severely damaged the 17th-century Bernaga Monastery outside of Milan in northern Italy, forcing 21 cloistered nuns to flee the blaze.

Crowds look at the Miracle of the Sun that occurred during the Our Lady of Fátima apparitions in 1917. / Credit: Public domain

CNA Staff, Oct 13, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

Oct. 13, 1917, marked the last Marian apparition in Fátima, a day on which thousands of people bore witness to the Miracle of the Sun.

The flag of the European Union. / Credit: U. J. Alexander/Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 8, 2025 / 16:43 pm (CNA).

The Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union reiterated its call for the bloc to reinstate the position of special envoy for religious freedom.

The Tomb of St. Francis. / Credit: Courtesy of Sacred Convent Press Office

Rome Newsroom, Oct 8, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).

The body of St. Francis will be moved from his tomb, located in the crypt, and placed at the foot of the papal altar in the lower church of the Basilica of St. Francis.

This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jeffrey Essmann. The Rhythm Salvation has a rhythm: how it paced Itself in times Of prophecy and kings! Oh, how it slowed And stumbled; then how of a sudden flowed With a sublime Delight when she who was so fully graced The meter of redemption […]

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