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Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Caracas, Venezuela, Dec 10, 2025 / 16:45 pm (CNA).

On Dec. 10 Venezuelan immigration police confiscated and invalidated the passport of Cardinal Baltazar Porras, the archbishop emeritus of Caracas.

Sister Lucia, visionary of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal. / Credit: Fatima Shrine

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 10, 2025 / 16:22 pm (CNA).

Today, Dec. 10, marks the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Sister Lucia of Fatima in Pontevedra province in Spain.

The flag of the European Union. / Credit: U. J. Alexander/Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 10, 2025 / 12:35 pm (CNA).

Europe's Catholic bishops expressed concern over the Court of Justice of the European Union obliging all member states to recognize same-sex marriage.

Entrance to the building of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal / Credit: Adrian Grycuk / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0 pl)

EWTN News, Dec 10, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA).

Poland's top court unanimously bans Communist Party of Poland, ruling it violates Article 13 of the constitution, which prohibits parties promoting totalitarian methods

The Holy House of Our Lady in the Shrine of Loreto. / Credit: Tatiana Dyuvbanova/Shutterstock

Loreto, Italy, Dec 10, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

What do Galileo, Mozart, Descartes, Cervantes, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux have in common? They all traveled hundreds of miles to visit Mary’s house in Loreto, Italy.

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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.

Traces of the first chapel where the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was first kept within the Old Parish of the Indians. / Credit: EWTN News

Puebla, Mexico, Dec 9, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA).

Next to the current Guadalupe Basilica in Mexico City is the old chapel built to house the image miraculously imprinted on St. Juan Diego’s cloak.

A painting of Franciscan missionary Pedro de Gante with Juan Diego, whom the friar baptized along with Diego’s wife in 1525. / Credit: Jerónimo de Mendieta, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).

Many people know the story of St. Juan Diego but are less familiar with the Franciscan missionary who baptized him.

Chief Cindy Woodhouse speaks at a ceremony in Montreal to welcome Indigenous cultural items from the Vatican. The artifacts were formally transferred to Indigenous leaders as part of the Jubilee of Hope declared by Pope Francis. / Credit: Peter Stockland

Montreal, Canada, Dec 8, 2025 / 14:48 pm (CNA).

Indigenous artifacts were formally transferred to Indigenous leaders in Montreal as part of the Jubilee of Hope declared by Pope Francis and carried out by Pope Leo XIV.