Europe

Nobel laureate’s freedom ‘a miracle from God’

Jonathan Luxmoore · December 17, 2025

A Catholic Nobel Peace Prize winner who was unexpectedly freed from jail in Belarus has paid tribute to supporters who helped secure his release, while warning that over a thousand political prisoners still languish in his country’s penal colonies.

Ukraine wary of war, seeking peace

Quinton Amundson · December 9, 2025

Fr. Andrew Onuferko beheld the terrible sounds, sights and pervasive climate of fear of the Russo-Ukrainian war during his visit to Lviv, the largest city in the key Lviv Oblast region of western Ukraine.

More than 11 million have visited Notre Dame since its reopening

Caroline de Sury · December 8, 2025

Notre Dame de Paris celebrated the first anniversary of its reopening Dec. 7 with a major milestone: more than 11 million people have visited the iconic cathedral in the past 12 months.

Newman brings Catholic revival at Oxford

Jonathan Luxmoore · October 30, 2025

As St. John Henry Newman is proclaimed a doctor of the Church on Nov. 1, staff and students at his old university will be counting on a boost of confidence for Oxford’s once-excluded Catholics.

Political leaders have duty before God to end war, pope says at peace meeting

Carol Glatz · October 29, 2025

The world is thirsting for peace and for an end to abuses of power and indifference to the rule of law, Pope Leo XIV said at an international gathering for peace.

As Nantes cathedral opens after 2020 fire, Notre Dame in Paris presents reopened towers

Caroline de Sury · September 29, 2025

The northwestern French city of Nantes waited for this moment for five long years and on Sept. 27, reopened its cathedral after the 2020 arson attack. The church celebrated with local and state officials present, and topped its reopening with ballet dancers flying on the cathedral's square.

Spain's Sagrada Familia set to be world's tallest Catholic church

Junno Arocho Esteves · September 25, 2025

Over a century in the making, the Tower of Jesus Christ, designed by famed Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí, will soon crown the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, making it the tallest Catholic church in the world.

Polish prelate calls for peace after 'reckless' Russian drone attack violates country's airspace

Katarzyna Szalajko · September 10, 2025

Several Russian drones entered Polish airspace in the morning hours of Sept. 10, and were shot down by Polish military, with debris falling in eastern and central Poland.

Pope Leo saddened by loss of life in streetcar derailment in Portugal that killed 17

Junno Arocho Esteves · September 4, 2025

Pope Leo XIV expressed condolences to victims and their families after the derailment of Lisbon's historic funicular streetcar Elevador da Glória, which caused the death of over a dozen people.

Ukrainian Catholic leaders condemn assassination of Ukrainian lawmaker

Gina Christian · September 4, 2025

Leaders of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church have condemned the assassination of a Ukrainian politician who was instrumental to that nation's post-Soviet independence, as authorities investigate the killer's ties to Russian intelligence.