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

CNA Staff, Feb 11, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

On Feb. 11, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.

Cardinal Kurt Koch speaks to journalists at the Synod on Synodality press briefing held at the Vatican’s Holy See Press Office on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Madrid, Spain, Feb 9, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

Cardinal Kurt Koch reflected the tension between the two essential parts of the Second Vatican Council: fidelity to the sources and fidelity to the signs of the times.

The Paris public prosecutor’s office announced that, despite serious allegations of abuse, it will not investigate Abbé Pierre, known as a poor priest, because he is no longer alive. / Credit: Studio Harcourt Paris/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)

CNA Deutsch, Feb 7, 2025 / 14:30 pm (CNA).

The Paris public prosecutor’s office has announced that, despite serious allegations of abuse, it will not investigate Abbé Pierre because he is no longer alive.

St. Marie’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Sheffield, England, was open for prayer on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, after a student at All Saints Catholic High School there was stabbed to death on Monday, Feb. 3. / Credit: alvarobueno/Shutterstock

CNA Staff, Feb 5, 2025 / 14:55 pm (CNA).

The alleged attacker reportedly stabbed 15-year-old Harvey Willgoose to death Feb. 3 at All Saints Catholic High School in the South Yorkshire city of Sheffield.

France’s Prime Minister Francois Bayrou attends a session of questions to the government at the National Assembly, France’s lower house of Parliament, in Paris on Feb. 4, 2025. / Credit: ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images

Paris, France, Feb 5, 2025 / 12:40 pm (CNA).

Opponents of the original bill saw it, on the contrary, as a courageous choice that endeavors to respect the plurality of parliamentary opinions on two social issues.

Bishop Santiago Gómez Sierra visits St. Paul Parish in the Diocese of Huelva, Spain, in 2022. / Credit: Diocese of Huelva, Spain

Madrid, Spain, Feb 5, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

“This way of accompanying Christian faithful who are in such situations does not correspond with the teaching of Pope Francis,” the Diocese of Huelva said in a statement.

This painting of St. Peter visiting St. Agatha was created by Federico Zuccari between 1597 and 1599 for the altar of Sant’Agata in the Milan Cathedral. It was directly commissioned by Milan native Federico Borromeo, a cousin of St. Charles Borromeo. / Credit: Rachel Thomas

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 5, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

Agatha was ruthlessly tortured and martyred under the Roman Emperor Decius in the third century and credited after her death with saving her home town of Catania.

“To affirm that Jesus’ wisdom comes from his stay in India or Tibet before beginning his public life at 30 years of age is a lack of respect for the Gospels and also hides other errors, for example an erroneous conception of Christology,” Spanish Bishop José Ignacio Munilla said. / Credit: ACI Prensa

Madrid, Spain, Feb 4, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).

Spanish Bishop José Ignacio Munilla warned about the theories spread by Father Pablo d’Ors that suppose a “crazy interpretation of the Gospel.”

Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Society of Jesus, prepares to celebrate Mass at the Gesu in Rome on Oct. 15, 2016. / Credit: GC36 via Flickr

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 3, 2025 / 16:10 pm (CNA).

The superior general of the Society of Jesus, Venezuelan priest Arturo Sosa, has convoked a meeting of all the Jesuit major superiors to be held this October in Rome.

Servant of God Antonio “Nino” Baglieri. / Credit: Courtesy of Salesians of Don Bosco

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 2, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints has validated the diocesan investigation for the beatification cause of Servant of God Antonino “Nino” Baglieri.