Nicaraguan dictatorship releases Bishop Álvarez, brother bishop, and priests
The pope’s call was echoed by U.S. authorities. On Jan. 2, Matthew Miller, spokesman for the U.S. State Department, demanded that the Nicaraguan dictatorship “immediately and unconditionally release Bishop Rolando…
Cardinal Parolin: Fiducia Supplican has ‘touched a very sensitive point’
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s Dec. 18 document has made it permissible for priests to offer nonliturgical blessings for couples in “irregular” situations, including gay couples, noting…
In Iowa home stretch, DeSantis focuses on faith, family, and ‘culture of life’
“I’ve had folks say that they wanted to support me for president financially, but they didn’t like the fact that we battled Disney to fight against gender ideology,” he said.…
What Pope Benedict XVI said about St. Hilary of Poitiers
Hilary was exiled to Phrygia in Turkey in 356 by Arian bishops at the so-called “synod of false apostles” by order of the emperor Constantius, who had aligned himself with…
U.S. and Mexican bishops present proposals to help migrants
On the economic issue, they requested that migrants be given “freedom of movement and the possibility of working” and “offering them the possibility of participating in an economy that allows…
Antisemitic incidents in U.S. up by more than 350% since start of Israel-Hamas war
The group said that since Oct. 7, when Hamas invaded Israel, “there was an average of nearly 34 antisemitic incidents per day,” which put 2023 on track to be “the…
Father Mike Schmitz’s hit podcasts to begin airing on EWTN Radio Jan. 15
Schmitz, a priest of the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, who serves at the University of Minnesota-Duluth’s Newman Center, hosts both podcasts and offers prayers and reflections to accompany the daily…
Today the Church honors 3 groups of martyrs as Christians worldwide continue to face persecution
“Learn from my torments,“ Arcadius is said to have told onlookers as he was dying. “Your gods are nothing. The only true God is the one for whom I am…
How St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, first female saint of Canada, discovered her vocation
On the feast day of the Virgin of the Rosary, as was customary, the image of the Mother of God was taken in procession through the streets. Shocked by the…
French bishops back Fiducia Supplicans and say it’s ‘an encouragement’
The brief statement from the Permanent Council noted that the declaration reiterated the Catholic Church’s doctrine on marriage as an “exclusive, stable, and indissoluble union, between a man and woman,…
African bishops: ‘No blessing for homosexual couples in the African Churches’
Ambongo said the Vatican’s Fiducia Supplicans declaration, issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on Dec. 18, “caused a shockwave” in Africa and “has sown misconceptions and…
Irish Medical Council strips directive banning ‘deliberate killing’ of patients
The eighth edition, published in 2016, similarly directed that doctors “must not take part in the deliberate killing of a patient.” The ninth edition, dated this year, however, has removed…