The Church of St. Luke

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.

Kiko Argüello and young people from the Neocatechumenal Way at Tor Vergata on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 6, 2025 / 16:16 pm (CNA).

About 120,000 young people from the Neocatechumenal Way participated in a gathering on Aug. 4, the feast day of the Curé of Ars, to consider their vocation.

Irish high cross at the Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary, Ireland. / Credit: Marie-Lise Van Wassenhove via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Dublin, Ireland, Aug 6, 2025 / 13:11 pm (CNA).

This week in Ireland, the Intercession for Priests marks its 50th anniversary with Mass in Knock followed by a weeklong retreat at Maynooth led by Sister Briege McKenna.

The European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium. / Credit: Ala z via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

CNA Deutsch, Aug 6, 2025 / 10:44 am (CNA).

The European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in June released a report linking Christian pro-life organizations to “religious extremism.”

The jar that was miraculously refilled after the priest had anointed the heads of 500 faithful. / Credit: Courtesy of Monsignor Pasquale Silvestri

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 6, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

St. Ferdinand Church, located in the historic heart of Naples, Italy, was the scene of a July 24 event that many are already calling miraculous.

Pope Leo XIV at Tor Vergata during the final Mass of the Jubilee of Youth on Aug. 3, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 5, 2025 / 16:16 pm (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV encouraged the participants of the Medjugorje youth festival to unite the flames of their hearts so that this fire may illuminate their journey toward God.

From the Irish College building in Salamanca, the Colegio Arzobispo Fonseca. / Credit: Patrick J. Passmore

Dublin, Ireland, Aug 5, 2025 / 12:28 pm (CNA).

The evacuation of Salamanca seminarians in 1936 marked the beginning of the end of a unique 350-year-old Irish-Spanish relationship.

Shroud of Turin featuring positive (left) and negative (right) digital filters. / Credit: Dianelos Georgoudis via Wikimedia Commons

CNA Staff, Aug 5, 2025 / 11:54 am (CNA).

The guardians of the famed Shroud of Turin are disputing the results of a recent study that purports to disprove the cloth’s origins as the burial shroud of Jesus Christ.

Entrance to St. Clare’s Monastery in Belorado, Burgos, Spain. / Credit: Nicolás de Cárdenas/EWTN News

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 5, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

A Spanish court has ruled in favor of the Catholic Church in the eviction lawsuit against the former Poor Clare nuns of Belorado.

Archbishop Eamon Martin. / Credit: Irish Jesuits, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 4, 2025 / 14:23 pm (CNA).

Archbishop Eamon Martin of Ireland commemorated St. John Vianney, the patron saint of all priests and especially parish priests, whose memorial is celebrated Aug. 4.