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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 CommonsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 12, 2025 / 14:24 pm (CNA).The French bishops' conference has issued a statement addressed to the archbishop of Toulouse, Guy de Kerimel, asking him to rescind the promotion of a priest who served time in prison for the rape of a minor boy.In an Aug. 10 press release from the presidency of the Bishops' Conference of France, the French bishops revealed they had "engaged in constructive dialogue" with Kerimel, "inviting him to reconsider the decision he made regarding the appointment of the chancellor of his diocese.""Such an appointment to such an important position, both canonically and symbolically, can only reopen wounds, reawaken suspicions, and disconcert the people of God," they wrote.The French bishops further recalled the Church's efforts in the...
Christ mourns a murder victim in the statue "Thou Shalt Not Kill" by Timothy Schmalz. / Credit: Courtesy of the Archdiocese of BaltimoreWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 12, 2025 / 14:54 pm (CNA).As advocates in Baltimore work to end violent crime in the area, officials with the Archdiocese of Baltimore are bringing to the city a sculpture of Jesus mourning a homicide victim.The statue, made by Catholic artist Timothy Schmalz, is titled "Thou Shall Not Kill."On Aug. 9 the archdiocese held its third annual gun buyback program, inviting citizens to surrender their guns for cash to help lessen violence in the city. The Baltimore City Police Department, St. Joseph's Monastery Parish, and the Health by Southwest coalition helped the archdiocese sponsor the event.Following the success of the buybacks, St. Joseph's Monastery parish priest Father Mike Murphy, the archdiocese, and community leaders are working to bring Schmalz's work of Christian public art to the city.The life-sized statu...
A panorama of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. / Credit: Jakub Maculewicz/ShutterstockCNA Staff, Aug 12, 2025 / 15:52 pm (CNA).A religious institute in New Zealand has lost its appeal to the Vatican to continue public ministry in the Diocese of Christchurch after the local bishop ordered the ban amid allegations of unauthorized exorcisms and other abuses.Christchurch Bishop Michael Gielen said in an Aug. 10 letter to his diocese that the Vatican "rejected in its entirety" the appeal of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer after Gielen forbade the community from ministering in Christchurch last year.The bishop said in July 2024 that the community had been subject to an apostolic visitation by Australian Bishop Robert McGuckin. Gielen removed the ministry faculties of the members after the Vatican's recommendation and also asked the group "to leave the Christchurch Diocese."Gielen in both letters did not clarify why the community was being investigated and sanctioned, but the...
Cover of the book "The Teacher: The Humanism of Pope Francis." / Credit: General Directorate of Culture and Education of the Province of Buenos AiresBuenos Aires, Argentina, Aug 12, 2025 / 16:22 pm (CNA).The government of Buenos Aires province in Argentina will distribute the 168-page book "The Teacher: The Humanism of Pope Francis" in public and private schools, an initiative that seeks to keep his legacy alive and transmit his thought to new generations.Gov. Axel Kicillof and the archbishop of La Plata (the provincial capital), Gustavo Carrara, were present at the presentation of the book, produced by the province's General Directorate of Culture and Education.The book seeks to keep alive the legacy of the Argentine pontiff, who died on April 21. With this initiative, the governor stated, the pope's thought will be present in all schools in Buenos Aires province.The director general of culture and education, Alberto Sileoni, remembered Francis as an "educator who conveyed his...
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/ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, Aug 12, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).The Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince denounced the "collapse of humanity" in Haitian society, "where the unthinkable has become commonplace," in response to the kidnapping of nine people from an orphanage on the outskirts of the capital on Aug. 3. In a statement, the archdiocese said it received the news of the kidnappings, which included an Irish lay missionary and a disabled 3-year-old boy, with "deep sadness and profound indignation" and expressed "its fraternal solidarity and spiritual closeness" with the orphanage, a "tireless sower of hope for the most vulnerable."The archdiocese also expressed its solidarity with the residents of Kenscoff, who have been affected "by the brutal violence that has taken hold in this town over the past few mo...
Miguel Uribe Turbay. / Credit: LuigiVenegas, Original uploader (2019), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsACI 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 politician was hospitalized at the Santa Fe Foundation Hospital in Bogotá."You will always be the love of my life. Thank you for a life full of love, thank you for being a father to the girls, the best father to Alejandro. I ask God to show me the way to learn to live without you," Tarazona wrote on Instagram early this morning.Born on Jan. 28, 1986, in Bogotá, Colombia, Uribe Turbay was the son of businessman Miguel Uribe and journalist Diana Turbay, who was murdered in 1991 after being kidnapped by the order of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellín Cartel. Uribe Turbay, whose family background is Maronite Catholic, held various public offices until he was ele...
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Syracuse, New York. / Credit: Mahmoud Masad/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 11, 2025 / 16:02 pm (CNA).The Diocese of Syracuse, New York, announced on Aug. 9 that Bishop Douglas J. Lucia has taken on the additional job of parish priest at three churches in Baldwinsville, New York. The diocese announced a number of changes to pastoral assignments that went into effect on Aug. 1, including Lucia serving as pastor at St. Augustine Church, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, and St. Mary of the Assumption Church. The three churches are part of the same parish and share various initiatives and resources."Certainly, a crucial component in our parishes is the priest. Without the priest, there is no Mass; and without the Mass there is no Eucharist, no food for the journey," Lucia wrote in a recent letter to the churches' parishioners.After announcing that the previous pastor, Father Joe O'Connor, received seminary work as a new assignm...
Cardinal Vincent Nichols (pictured celebrating a Mass in 2021) condemned in an Aug. 8, 2025, statement Israel's plans to take over Gaza City. / Credit: Mazur/cbcew.org.ukWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 11, 2025 / 16:32 pm (CNA).Archbishop of Westminster in England and Wales Cardinal Vincent Nichols has issued a statement condemning Israel's plans to take over Gaza City.The statement came after Israel's security cabinet approved a plan on Aug. 8 to take control of Gaza City and expand military operations.Israel's five-step plan includes disarming Hamas, releasing all remaining living and deceased hostages, demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, establishing temporary Israeli control over the enclave, and eventually replacing Hamas with a friendly Arab civil administration."Today, and in these days, I weep for the people of Gaza as they face not just a continuation of their immense suffering but an escalation in their hardship and desperation," Nichols said in the Aug. 8 statement."To inc...
The Vatican City's Governor's Palace (Palazzo del Governatorato in Vaticano), the building that is the seat of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State in the Vatican Gardens. / Credit: Some pictures here/ShutterstockACI Prensa Staff, Aug 11, 2025 / 17:20 pm (CNA).Pope Leo XIV has approved a series of measures that benefit Vatican employees, expanding paternity leave, the rights of parents with disabled children, and granting family subsidies.A document published Aug. 11 and signed by Maximino Caballero, prefect of the secretariat for financial affairs of the Holy See, lists the "Provisions for the Family" approved by the Holy Father following an audience on July 28.These resolutions were previously unanimously accepted by the council of the Labor Office of the Holy See (ULSA, by its Italian acronym), a body composed of representatives from various entities of the Holy See and the Vatican Governorate as well as their respective employees.Regarding paternity leave, ...
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: PacemakerDublin, Ireland, Aug 11, 2025 / 11:27 am (CNA).A 77-year-old parish priest in Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland, sustained head and hand injuries following a violent attack as he was getting ready to say Sunday morning Mass.The parish priest of St. Patrick in Downpatrick, Canon John Murray, is in a "serious but stable" condition in the hospital following the Aug. 10 assault in which his fingers were broken while defending himself.In a separate incident that police believe to be connected to the assault on Murray, a murder inquiry is underway after a man was found dead in a house in the County Down town, RTÉ News reported.In a statement, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said inquiries are ongoing: "At this time...
