CNA Daily News – Europe

Rome Newsroom, Jan 22, 2021 / 03:00 pm (CNA).- Rosario Livatino, a young judge who was killed in 1990 by the mafia for his efforts to combat organized crime in Sicily, always treated the accused in his court with kindness. According to a former classmate of Livatino’s, defendants in cases judged […]

CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2021 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- Public Masses will be suspended in Portugal from Saturday, the country’s bishops have announced. The Portuguese Episcopal Conference said on Jan. 21 that it was taking the step due to the “extreme gravity” of the coronavirus crisis, reported ACI […]

CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- A prosecutor in Poland indicated on Thursday that he saw no grounds for an investigation into allegations that Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz failed to report claims of clerical abuse. The 81-year-old cardinal served as an aide to John Paul II until the […]

CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2021 / 06:10 am (CNA).- A cardinal said on Friday that a proposed law in Denmark requiring the translation of all homilies into Danish is a threat to religious freedom.  In a Jan. 22 statement, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, president of the Commission of the Bishops’ […]

CNA Staff, Jan 22, 2021 / 03:10 am (CNA).- An English Catholic bishop welcomed on Thursday a step forward in the sainthood cause of a religious sister who served poor communities ravaged by cholera and typhoid.  Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury said on Jan. 21 that it was fitting that Elizabeth […]

Rome Newsroom, Jan 21, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).- As a self-proclaimed atheist in his early 20s, Private Dillon Beatson said that the only time he spoke of religion was with ridicule. But when his helicopter crashed during a training mission in the Middle East, he found himself crying out to God. […]

CNA Staff, Jan 21, 2021 / 06:00 am (CNA).- Croatia’s Catholic bishops on Tuesday commended “victims of the coronavirus pandemic and destructive earthquakes” to the intercession of the Virgin Mary. In a statement issued on Jan. 19, at the end of their plenary meeting in the capital, Zagreb, […]

Rome Newsroom, Jan 21, 2021 / 04:30 am (CNA).- A recently ordained Catholic priest died in hospital early Thursday morning after an explosion destroyed a parish building in the Spanish capital, Madrid. Fr. Rubén Pérez Ayala was ordained to the priesthood last June. His first assignment was at […]

CNA Staff, Jan 20, 2021 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- Catholic bishops wrote to Britain’s Health Secretary on Wednesday, expressing concern about the plight of a Polish patient in a U.K. hospital. The letter dated Jan. 20 followed a court ruling allowing the withdrawal of food and water from the practicing […]

CNA Staff, Jan 20, 2021 / 09:30 am (CNA).- At least three people are believed to have died after an explosion on Wednesday devastated a building belonging to a Catholic parish in the Spanish capital, Madrid.  The explosion took place near the Puerta de Toledo in central Madrid after 3 p.m. local […]