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Mary is the servant of her son, but not co-redemptrix, Brazilian archbishop says

Archbishop Juárez Marqués shepherds the Archdiocese of Teresina, Brazil. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Archbishop Juárez Marqués

Brasilia, Brazil, Dec 3, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).

In an interview with a local television station, Archbishop Juárez Marqués reflected on Mater Populi Fidelis (“Mother of the Faithful People of God”).

European Union imposes recognition of ‘homosexual marriage’ on all member states

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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.

Canadian government set to remove religious exemptions from hate-speech laws

Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa. / Credit: Robert Linsdell via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

CNA Staff, Dec 2, 2025 / 18:04 pm (CNA).

Lawmakers with the Liberal Party of Canada have reportedly struck a deal with the Bloc Québécois party to remove the religious exemptions from the national code.

Bishops in Puerto Rico warn of ‘possible escalations’ in a US-Venezuela war

Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral in Ponce, Puerto Rico. / Credit: Alex Lipov/Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 2, 2025 / 16:08 pm (CNA).

The Puerto Rican Bishops’ Conference is opposing the militarization being carried out by the U.S. on the island, an unincorporated U.S. territory.

Police suspect Croatian nun stabbed herself, falsely reported attack

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.

Faceless Nativity scene on Brussels’ Grand Place sparks international controversy

The faceless Nativity scene in Brussels, Belgium, in November 2025. / Credit: Maxim Van den Bossche

Brussels, Belgium, Dec 2, 2025 / 10:08 am (CNA).

Faceless cloth Nativity figures on Brussels’ Grand Place have sparked international debate over Christian tradition versus inclusive art.

Austrian nuns who escaped nursing home reject compromise offer

Three Augustinian nuns (pictured on Sept. 16, 2025) fled their nursing home and returned to their convent in Austria. / Credit: Courtesy of Nonnen_Goldenstein

EWTN News, Dec 2, 2025 / 09:14 am (CNA).

Three Austrian nuns have rejected a compromise to remain at Goldenstein Monastery, escalating a yearslong dispute that now goes to Rome.

Reactions mount in Canada to undercover video exposing late-term abortions

A screenshot from the Vancouver video in which Alissa Golob recorded her conversation with a health care worker at BC Women’s Hospital. / Credit: RightNow YouTube/B.C. Catholic

Vancouver, Canada, Dec 1, 2025 / 15:51 pm (CNA).

Alissa Golob, co-founder of RightNow, posed as an undecided pregnant woman in abortion facilities in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary in 2023.

Pope Leo XIV appoints 2 new archbishops for western Canada dioceses

Bishop Stephen Hero celebrates Mass to start the Jubilee Year in December 2024 at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Prince Albert, Saskachewan. Hero has been appointed Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Prince Albert

Edmonton, Canada, Nov 27, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

Pope Leo appointed Bishop Stephen A. Hero as the archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta, and Father Susai Jesu, OMI, as archbishop-elect of Keewatin-Le Pas.

New World Liberty Congress president analyzes ‘silence’ of Church in Nicaragua

Pope Leo XIV meets with Bishop Rolando Álvarez on Nov. 13, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 25, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).

The new president of the World Liberty Congress recently analyzed the “silence” of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which is under persecution by President Daniel Ortega.