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The side of Toulouse Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Toulouse) in Toulouse in the South of France. / Credit: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 12, 2025 / 14:24 pm (CNA).

The French bishops’ conference has asked the archbishop of Toulouse to rescind the promotion of a priest who served time in prison for the rape of a minor boy.

St. James Roman Catholic Church in Reading, England, is the starting point of the English route of the Camino de Santiago. / Credit: Kevin Hellon/Shutterstock

London, England, Aug 12, 2025 / 13:52 pm (CNA).

Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth is concerned about a proposal to build a huge solar farm on the English stretch of the Camino de Santiago in the south of England.

The Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince condemned the kidnapping of nine people from an orphanage on the outskirts of the capital on Sunday, Aug. 3. / Credit: Creative Photo Corner/Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 12, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

The Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince denounced the “collapse of humanity” in Haitian society in response to the kidnapping of nine people from an orphanage.

Miguel Uribe Turbay. / Credit: LuigiVenegas, Original uploader (2019), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 11, 2025 / 14:40 pm (CNA).

Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay died Monday morning, Aug. 11, just over two months after being shot by a hitman, his wife, María Claudia Tarazona, confirmed.

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.