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EWTN News, Dec 9, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).
The situation arose when two Polish citizens who had “married” in Germany in 2018 returned to Poland and requested that officials register their union.
Bishop John Keenan speaks at the First Saturdays Conference in Knock, Ireland, on Dec. 6, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of First Saturdays Conference
Dublin, Ireland, Dec 9, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Bishop urges “no half-measures” at First Saturdays’ centenary as hundreds mark 100 years of First Saturdays devotion at Knock Shrine.
Pilgrims gather for Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Montligeon in Normandy, France, on Nov. 16, 2025, during the annual “Heaven’s Pilgrimage,” dedicated to prayer for the souls in purgatory. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Shrine of Our Lady of Montligeon
EWTN News, Dec 9, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
As a Normandy basilica is restored, the Shrine of Our Lady of Montligeon sees more pilgrims seeking hope — especially young adults and new Catholics in secular France.
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary of Pope Benedict XVI. / Credit: Alan Holdren/EWTN News
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 8, 2025 / 16:28 pm (CNA).
Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary of Pope Benedict XVI, said he hopes the beatification process will begin soon for the German pontiff.
Sister Lucia of Fátima, left, and Dr. Branca Pereira Acevedo, her doctor for 15 years. / Credit: Sanctuary of Fatima/ HM Television/Home of the Mother
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 8, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Dec. 10 marks the centenary of the Fátima apparitions, an occasion for which the Holy See has granted a jubilee year.
Statue of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Bari, Italy, at the Pontifical Basilica of St. Nicholas. / Credit: Veronica Giacometti/ACI Stampa
ACI Stampa, Dec 6, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
The city of Bari, Italy, celebrates its patron St. Nicholas every Dec. 6 with festivities and Masses.
Pope Francis receives the bishops of England and Wales for their ad limina visit at the Vatican, Sept. 28, 2018. / Credit: Vatican Media
London, England, Dec 4, 2025 / 13:07 pm (CNA).
A policy change concerning restrictions on the old Mass is relevant to the whole of the universal Church, not just England and Wales, said the head of the Latin Mass Society.
Poster for the St. John of the Cross 2026 Jubilee. / Credit: Iberian Province of the Discalced Carmelites
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 4, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
The Iberian Province of the Discalced Carmelites is preparing to celebrate the jubilee year of St. John of the Cross during the 300th anniversary of his canonization.
Bishop Raimo Goyarrola, the only Catholic bishop in Finland, speaks with CNA in Houston in November 2025 on a fundraising trip for his “mission” Church. / Credit: Amira Abuzeid/CNA
Houston, Texas, Dec 4, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Bishop Raimo Goyarrola has been traveling in the U.S. with Father Jean Claude Kabeza to raise funds to support the Finnish Church, which has seen explosive growth.
Bishop Simon Kulli of Sapë, Albania. / Credit: ACN
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 3, 2025 / 18:51 pm (CNA).
The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) announced the sudden death of Bishop Simon Kulli of Sapë in northern Albania at the age of 52.
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ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 3, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that all member states are obliged to recognize so-called “homosexual marriages” contracted in another country.
The cathedral in Zagreb, Croatia. / Credit: Fogcatcher/Shutterstock
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 2, 2025 / 13:33 pm (CNA).
Police in Croatia’s capital city of Zagreb suspect that a nun stabbed herself and then falsely reported that she had been attacked, according to a police report.