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Cyclists during an earlier edition of the Giro d'Italia. / Credit: filip bossuyt, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsVatican City, May 29, 2025 / 10:09 am (CNA).World-class cyclists will greet Pope Leo XIV and circle Vatican City on Sunday before embarking on the final lap of the Giro d'Italia, a multistage bicycle race that concludes in Rome.The professional race, which started in Albania on May 9, is among the top three most important international multistage races in the world, together with the Tour de France and the Vuelta a Espana. It includes 21 stages, mostly in Italy.The last stage of the 108th edition of the race will take place on June 1, starting from the Caracalla Baths, just south of the Coliseum, and proceeding toward the Vatican.The 1.8-mile noncompetitive ride through the Vatican will start from the Petriano Square, just south of St. Peter's Basilica inside the city state, where Pope Leo XIV will greet the athletes at the starting line. The path of the ...
Springs of Love ministry founder Kimberly Henkel (right) speaks with "EWTN Pro-life Weekly" host Abi Galvan on May 28, 2025. / Credit: "EWTN Pro-life Weekly"Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 29, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).A Catholic foster care ministry leader is calling for Catholic families to support vulnerable children and families by becoming foster parents. Springs of Love ministry founder Kimberly Henkel said many Catholics are unaware of the "huge crisis in our country" surrounding foster care, and people of faith are in a unique position to bring love to children in need of foster care. Henkel, who is a foster and adoptive mother herself, launched Springs of Love as a ministry to help other Catholic couples navigate the process of fostering. Henkel described the foster system as "very cyclical" and "difficult to break out of," with children often passing from home to home. In the end, she said, children who age out of foster care with no family connections are often ...
Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for his general audience on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAVatican City, May 28, 2025 / 15:21 pm (CNA).Pope Leo XIV held the second general audience of his pontificate today in which he reflected on the parable of the good Samaritan.At the beginning of his catechesis, addressed to the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father recalled that the parables of the Gospel offer an opportunity "to change perspective and open ourselves up to hope."The lack of hope, the pontiff explained, is sometimes due "to the fact that we fixate on a certain rigid and closed way of seeing things," and the parables "help us to look at them from another point of view."Pope Leo XIV blesses a baby during his general audience on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAHe then recalled that Jesus proposes this parable to "a doctor of the law," wh...
Pope Leo XIV prays with pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for his general audience on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNAVatican City, May 28, 2025 / 15:41 pm (CNA).At the end of Wednesday's general audience, Pope Leo XIV turned his attention to the people suffering the devastating consequences of war, especially in Ukraine and Gaza.During his greeting to the Italian-speaking faithful, the Holy Father lamented that the Ukrainian people are being hit by "serious new attacks" against civilians and infrastructure.He also assured them of his closeness and prayers for all the victims, particularly the children and families of that nation, which has lived under the constant threat of bombs since the Russian army invaded in February 2022."I strongly reiterate my appeal to stop the war and to support every initiative of dialogue and peace," he continued.He also urged the faithful to join "in prayer for peace in Ukraine and wherever there is sufferi...
Doug Burton of Truth Nigeria speaks to "EWTN News Nightly" anchor Erik Rosales on May 27, 2025, about the brutal massacre in Nigeria that occurred May 25. / Credit: "EWTN News Nightly" screenshotWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 28, 2025 / 10:37 am (CNA).A brutal attack by extremist Muslim herdsmen in Nigeria on Sunday left dozens dead and resulted in the kidnapping of a Catholic priest and several nuns.Hundreds of Jihadist Fulani herdsmen gunned down nearly 40 people, more than half of them Christians, across several villages on Sunday, according to a report by Truth Nigeria, a humanitarian-aid nonprofit that seeks to document Nigeria's struggles with corruption and crime.The attack occurred three days after the shooting of Father Solomon Atongo, a priest of St. John Quasi Parish in Jimba, and the kidnapping of two of his companions. Atongo is currently receiving treatment for his wounds.Some of Sunday's attacks took place in Aondona, the hometown of Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of Maku...
Pope Leo XIV speaks in front of the famous icon at the Shrine of the Mother of Good Counsel in Genazzano, Italy, on Saturday, May 10, 2025. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, May 28, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).Pope Leo XIV is now granting apostolic blessings to the faithful around the world, a spiritual gesture that can be officially requested through the Vatican's Apostolic Almoner's Office.These blessings, printed on parchment, are a well-established tradition in the Catholic Church and are available for significant moments in Christian life such as the sacraments of baptism, confirmation, and marriage.As indicated on the website of the Vatican Apostolic Almoner's Office, the procedure for obtaining an apostolic blessing can be completed in two ways: in person at the offices of this department or through an online form.Those who choose the in-person method should go to the offices located within Vatican City, entering through the Porta di Sant'Anna, to the right of the colonnade...
Season 2 of the EWTN web series "James the Less" premieres June 9, 2025. / Credit: EWTN YouTube channelCNA Staff, May 27, 2025 / 16:06 pm (CNA).The second season of the award-winning online EWTN series "James the Less" will be released on Monday, June 9. The first season introduced viewers to James Little, a student fresh out of college desperate for a job. James is an atheist. However, a "help wanted" sign on the church bulletin board catches his eye and entices him to interview for the position: handyman. James accepts the position at St. James the Less Church and starts to encounter Catholicism. Soon, James finds his ideals challenged by the no-nonsense pastor Father Lambert Burns and through his romantic pursuit of parishioner Anne-Marie.EWTN Director of Studio Operations Stephen Beaumont told CNA that the idea for the series came from his desire to "create a series of short videos about a character growing in virtue.""The idea for the title came from a Mass I attended...
Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, presides over a celebratory liturgy at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on the occasion of the World Day of Eastern Christians on May 25, 2025. / Credit: L'Œuvre d'OrientACI MENA, May 27, 2025 / 17:18 pm (CNA).To mark the World Day of Eastern Christians, held every year on the sixth Sunday of Easter and organized by the association L'Œuvre d'Orient, Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, presided over the Divine Liturgy in the Chaldean rite at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Sunday, May 25. The celebration brought together bishops and faithful from various backgrounds. According to Vatican News, the World Day of Eastern Christians is for prayer, encounter, and communion between Eastern and Latin Christians.On the occasion of the World Day of Eastern Christians on May 25, 2025, a Divine Liturgy was celebrated at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris presided over by Cardinal Louis Raph...
Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro is the new president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. / Credit: ACI StampaNational Catholic Register, May 27, 2025 / 19:06 pm (CNA).Pope Leo XIV has appointed as head of the Vatican's bioethics think tank Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro, the longtime deputy of its outgoing president, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, signaling a desire to continue the course set under Pope Francis.Until his appointment on Tuesday, Pegoraro, 65, had served since 2011 as chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life, acting as a close aide to Paglia throughout his turbulent term as president, which was marked by the appointments of pro-abortion members and problematic statements regarding assisted suicide and contraception. Paglia is retiring after turning 80.Dr. Thomas Ward, who is founder of the U.K.'s National Association of Catholic Families, expressed concern about the appointment, saying he never recalled Pegoraro "disassociating himself from any of the egregious positions an...
Mildred, the Peruvian goddaughter of Pope Leo XIV, with then-Father Robert Prevost. / Credit: Courtesy of Mildred CamachoACI Prensa Staff, May 26, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA)."Godfather, we love you! Long live the pope!" Mildred exclaimed as she shared her moving testimony about Father Robert Prevost, who was a young Augustinian priest in Chulucanas, Peru, when she was born and who today leads the Church as Pope Leo XIV.Mildred, a 29-year-old Peruvian mother of two daughters and a devotee of St. John Paul II, is justifiably proud of her godfather: "I would love to tell him that I have admired him since I was little, that it's not just a recent thing," she said in an interview with EWTN Noticias, the Spanish-language broadcast edition of EWTN News.The connection between the two began decades ago, when her father, Héctor Camacho, was a teenager serving as an altar boy at the cathedral in Chulucanas in the Piura district of the country. At that time, then-Father Prevost had just arrived...
