Archbishop Luc Terlinden attends a hearing session of the special commission investigating abuse in Church and other situations of power at the Flemish Parliament on Jan. 26, 2024, in Brussels. / Credit: ERIC LALMAND/Belga/AFP via Getty Images CNA Newsroom, May 10, 2024 / 10:45 am (CNA). Archbishop Luc Terlinden of Mechelen-Brussels apologized to abuse survivors for the inclusion of reportedly three perpetrators of abuse on an advisory council.  ..read more

Pope Francis greets a young girl at a conference on Friday, May 10, 2024, on the state of birth rates in Italy and the wider West at the Auditorium della Conciliazione in Rome. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, May 10, 2024 / 10:00 am (CNA). “The problem of our world is not the children that are born — it is selfishness, consumerism, and individualism, which make people full, lonely and unhappy ..read more

Kariye, the former Byzantine Church of St. Savior in Chora in Istanbul in 2020. / Credit: Nathalie Ritzmann ACI MENA, May 9, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Church of St. Savior in Chora was converted into a mosque in 1511, then became a museum in 1948 for 72 years before being reopened this month for Muslim worship ..read more

Servant of God Nino Baglieri. / Credit: ANS/Salesians ACI Prensa Staff, May 8, 2024 / 17:53 pm (CNA). The diocesan phase of the cause of beatification of the Servant of God Nino Baglieri has been closed in Modica, a town in southern Sicily ..read more

Pope Benedict XVI on April 21, 2007, in Vigevano, Italy. / Credit: miqu77/Shutterstock CNA Newsroom, May 8, 2024 / 11:07 am (CNA). Addressing the court, the defendant said he knew that he did not appear credible but promised that the cross “would come back to Traunstein ..read more

null / Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 8, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA). Ahead of Ireland’s elections, speakers urged march attendees to “think pro-life” this year.  ..read more

In 2023 there were more than 275,000 child pornography websites on the internet, with approximately 11,000 photos generated by AI in just one month. / Credit: Kelly Sikkema/Unsplash ACI Prensa Staff, May 7, 2024 / 16:30 pm (CNA). The conference grappled with the fact that youth are increasingly exposed to platforms that contain tools “that can lead to risky behavior ..read more

Naples Archbishop Domenico Battaglia kisses the reliquary containing the blood of St. Januarius on May 4, 2024. / Credit: Chiesa di Napoli ACI Prensa Staff, May 6, 2024 / 16:48 pm (CNA). The miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius, bishop, martyr, and patron saint of Naples, Italy, was repeated in St. Clare Basilica on May 4 ..read more

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa gives the homily at a Mass in which he took possession of his titular church, St. Onuphrius, in Rome on May 1, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Rome Newsroom, May 3, 2024 / 12:21 pm (CNA). “Peace needs the testimony of clear and strong gestures on the part of all believers, but it also needs to be announced and defended by equally clear words ..read more

Oviedo Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes accused the government of focusing "in a biased and manipulative way on the problem of pedophilia as something attributable only to the Catholic Church." / Credit: Archdiocese of Oviedo ACI Prensa Staff, May 2, 2024 / 18:50 pm (CNA). Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes of Oviedo, Spain, delivered a fiery response to the government’s plan to address abuses committed within the Catholic Church ..read more