Courageous grandmother who led fight to stop removal of cross from plaza in Spain dies
The cross of Callosa de Segura In March 2016, the socialist mayor of Callosa de Segura pushed a motion to remove the cross adjacent to St. Martin Church, invoking the…
Pope Francis: An ethical AI respects human dignity
“I encourage you, in your deliberations, to make the intrinsic dignity of every man and every woman the key criterion in evaluating emerging technologies,” Francis told participants. “These will prove…
Social media apostolate brings the beauty of Rome’s historic churches to Instagram
The Roman station church tradition has experienced something of an Anglophonic revival in the last three decades, spearheaded by the Pontifical North American College, which in recent years has offered…
Priest reports possible eucharistic miracle at Connecticut church
“Very powerful, very awesome, very real, very shocking. But also, it happens, and today it happened,” he said. “They were running out of hosts and all of a sudden more…
Pope Francis, Mississippi bishop offer prayers for victims of deadly tornado
“It is almost complete devastation,” Royce Steed, emergency manager in Humphreys County, where Silver City is located, told USA Today. “This little old town … is more or less wiped…
Nordic bishops issue letter affirming Church teaching on human sexuality
“This covenantal sign, the rainbow, is claimed in our time as the symbol of a movement that is at once political and cultural,” the bishops note. “We recognize all that…
Pope Francis accepts resignation of vice president of German bishops’ conference
Reacting to the news, Bishop Georg Bätzing — the conference president — said on Mar. 25: “Today I lose my closest companion on the Synodal Way, which still has many…
Why the Stations of the Cross were a daily devotion for Mother Angelica
It was during a visit to St. Anthony’s Church, the church where Rizzo prayed the Stations of the Cross as a teenager in Canton, that Wolfe thought it “would be…
U.S. House passes ‘Parents Bill of Rights’ with amendments on transgender issues
To bolster transparency, the resolution would require school districts to publicly post their school curriculum and provide a list of library books and other library reading materials to parents. It…
Catholics urged to be generous to Good Friday collection to benefit the Holy Land
“As the prophet Isaiah recalls: ‘Consider the rock from which you were hewn’ (Is 51:1),” the archbishop wrote. “The Church spread throughout the world with the preaching of the apostles,…
Spanish bishop criticizes Constitutional Court for upholding euthanasia law
The majority on the Constitutional Court considered that the euthanasia law supports the “free, informed, and conscious decision as to how and when to die” in cases of terminal illnesses…
Pope Francis asked Catholics to renew Marian consecration every March 25. Here’s what that means
The Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship defines consecration to Mary as an overt recognition of the “singular role of Mary in the Mystery of Christ and of the Church, of…