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The Basilica of the Holy Trinity at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima in Portugal. / Credit: Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, PORTUGAL, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rome Newsroom, Apr 2, 2025 / 10:52 am (CNA).
The Fátima shrine in Portugal will not be taking down its Rupnik mosaic installation but has stopped using the image in any distributed materials.
“Today we run the risk that our organizations, so dependent on the welfare state ... could be easily confused with a very bureaucratic NGO [nongovernmental organization],” said Archbishop Luis Argüello, president of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference. / Credit: Spanish Bishops’ Conference
Madrid, Spain, Apr 1, 2025 / 17:24 pm (CNA).
Archbishop Luis Argüello opened the Spanish Bishops’ Conference’s 127th plenary assembly this week with a deep analysis of Spain’s growing secularization.
Mosaics by alleged abuser Father Marko Rupnik are displayed throughout the shrine in Lourdes, France. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA
Rome Newsroom, Mar 31, 2025 / 11:03 am (CNA).
Bishop Jean-Marc Micas of Tarbes and Lourdes called the decision a “second step” after his initial decision in July 2024 to no longer light up the mosaics at night.
A monumental cross towers above the Valley of the Fallen complex. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Madrid, Spain, Mar 30, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Cardinal José Cobo is defending his role as an interlocutor between the Vatican and the Spanish government in the process of resignifying the Valley of the Fallen.
The flag of the European Union flying in Rome. / Credit: Bohumil Petrik/CNA
ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 28, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA).
The bishops of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union held their spring assembly this week, where they considered the EU’s vocation.
St. Hedwig Cathedral in Berlin, Germany. / Credit: Cedric BLN via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
CNA Deutsch, Mar 28, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
According to the German Bishops’ Conference, Catholics now make up less than a quarter of Germany’s population and less than 2% are attending Mass.
The British Parliament building in London. / Credit: Marinesea/Shutterstock
London, England, Mar 27, 2025 / 13:30 pm (CNA).
According to several U.K. publications, the future of the legislation looks uncertain since it may not take effect until 2029 following amendments to the proposed bill.
The General House of the Society of Jesus in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News
CNA Staff, Mar 26, 2025 / 19:05 pm (CNA).
Father Marko Rupnik is accused of having committed serious sexual, psychological, and spiritual abuse of dozens of religious sisters under his spiritual care over decades.
Highlands El Encinar School in Madrid. / Credit: Courtesy of Highlands School
Madrid, Spain, Mar 26, 2025 / 15:45 pm (CNA).
Father Jesús María Delgado, principal of Highlands El Encinar school in Madrid, has resigned in the wake of complaints of sexual abuse against the school’s chaplain.
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. / Credit: Gabriele Maltinti/Shutterstock
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 26, 2025 / 15:15 pm (CNA).
France’s National Independent Authority for Recognition and Reparation’s annual report says the organization has resolved 852 cases, with 99% involving financial compensation.
Maltese priest Fabio Attard was elected rector major of the Salesians for the next six years. / Credit: Courtesy of Salesian Family
ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 26, 2025 / 13:05 pm (CNA).
Maltese priest Fabio Attard was elected as the new rector major of the Salesian congregation during its general chapter, becoming the 11th successor of St. John Bosco.
Pope Francis greets His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Wales at the canonization of St. John Henry Newman at the Vatican on Oct. 13, 2019. / Credit: Vatican Media
CNA Staff, Mar 25, 2025 / 18:35 pm (CNA).
The royal couple was set to visit the Vatican in early April to celebrate the 2025 Jubilee but announced the postponement of their visit on Tuesday.