
Priest injured in church attack as police investigate Northern Ireland murder
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.

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.

Pope Leo XIV in his Sunday Angelus on Aug. 10, 2025, urged the faithful to reflect on how they invest the “treasure” that is their

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 /

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,

Pope Leo XIV and St. Augustine. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News and Public Domain ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 8, 2025 / 15:53 pm (CNA). Today

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrams gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 6, 2025. / Credit:

St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. / Credit: Babouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 8,

“St. Dominic of Guzman” by Claudio Coello, circa 1685. / Credit: Claudio Coello, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Rome Newsroom, Aug 8, 2025 / 04:00

Newlyweds Anna and Cole Stevens meet Pope Leo XIV at the general audience in Rome on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. / Credit: Courtesy of Anna

St. Hedwig Cathedral in Berlin, Germany. / Credit: Cedric BLN via Wikimedia (Public domain) CNA Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 09:23 am (CNA). German bishops

null / Credit: H4stings, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Newsroom, Aug 7, 2025 / 09:53 am (CNA). Marine Rosset, the newly appointed president

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

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

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).

Pope Leo XIV speaks to thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday catechesis on the Jubilee theme “Jesus Christ Our Hope”

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

The Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan. / Credit: Oilstreet via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.5) Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 6, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).

Pope Leo XIV approaches Tor Vergata in Rome by helicopter on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Aug 5, 2025 /

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

Pope Leo XIV greets the crowd at the Jubilee of Youth on Aug. 3, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Aug 5, 2025 /

A gentle cascade of white rose petals falls from the ceiling of the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Aug. 5, 2025, the feast of

Shroud of Turin featuring positive (left) and negative (right) digital filters. / Credit: Dianelos Georgoudis via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Aug 5, 2025 / 11:54

From the Irish College building in Salamanca, the Colegio Arzobispo Fonseca. / Credit: Patrick J. Passmore Dublin, Ireland, Aug 5, 2025 / 12:28 pm (CNA).

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).