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The parish priest of St. Patrick in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, Canon John Murray, is in a “serious but stable” condition in hospital following the Aug. 10, 2025, assault in which his fingers were broken while defending himself. / Credit: Pacemaker

Dublin, Ireland, Aug 11, 2025 / 11:27 am (CNA).

The parish priest of Downpatrick, Canon John Murray, is in a “serious but stable” condition in the hospital following the assault in which his fingers were broken.

Cardinal Fernando Chomali, archbishop of Santiago, Chile. / Credit: Courtesy of Archdioceses of Santiago, Chile

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 11, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

“The Christian of the 21st century will either be a martyr or will not be a Christian,” said the archbishop of Santiago, Chile, Cardinal Fernando Chomali. 

Twenty-four-year-old Father Miguel Tovar of the Diocese of Cartagena, Spain. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Diocese of Cartagena

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 9, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV told one of the youngest priests in Spain, recently-ordained Father Miguel Tovar, 24, to never lose “the joy of the priesthood.”

Daniel O'Connell, lithograph attributed to R. Evan Sly (EP OCON-DA (17) II) from the National Library of Ireland. / Credit: National Library of Ireland

Dublin, Ireland, Aug 9, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

Daniel O’Connell’s efforts culminated in the passage of the Catholic Relief Act of 1829, which allowed Catholics to sit in Parliament and hold public office. 

St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. / Credit: Babouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 8, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

According to Father Francisco Javier Calvo, Pope Leo XIV’s announcement that St. John Henry Newman will be declared a doctor of the Church represents “enormous hope.”

“St. Dominic of Guzman” by Claudio Coello, circa 1685. / Credit: Claudio Coello, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Rome Newsroom, Aug 8, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

St. Dominic’s divine fire still burns through preaching and prayer throughout the world.

Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in San Salvador, El Salvador. / Credit: Bobbycharks, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 7, 2025 / 15:36 pm (CNA).

The Catholic hierarchy in El Salvador has opposed the recent reform that allows current President Nayib Bukele and his successors unlimited presidential terms.

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CNA Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 09:53 am (CNA).

Marine Rosset, the briefly-tenured chief of France’s Scouts et Guides de France, bowed out following a fierce backlash.

St. Hedwig Cathedral in Berlin, Germany. / Credit: Cedric BLN via Wikimedia (Public domain)

CNA Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 09:23 am (CNA).

Five German dioceses have explicitly refused to implement a pastoral handout, all referencing the Vatican’s Fiducia Supplicans as their standard.

An aerial view of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. / Credit: arindambanerjee/Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 7, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

On the morning of Sunday, Aug. 3, nine people working at an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, were kidnapped.