Pro-life advocates say they have enough signatures to suspend Massachusetts abortion law
Pro-life advocates in Massachusetts say they have collected enough signatures to both suspend a far-reaching abortion law there and put the question before voters in the next presidential election cycle.…
Pope Leo XIV: AI can never be a person; its future depends on our choices
Pope Leo XIV emphasized that artificial intelligence (AI) can never replace the human person and that AI regulation must continue. “Machines are tools, not persons,” Leo said in his address.…
Pope modifies disciplinary sanctions for employees of the Roman Curia
Pope Leo XIV has approved a reform of the disciplinary rules governing personnel of the Roman Curia, introducing new safeguards for employees facing proceedings for serious misconduct, including the possibility…
Muslim U.S. Senate candidate grilled again for comparing canon law with sharia law
ANN ARBOR, Michigan — In the closing days of a hotly contested U.S. Senate race, Michigan Democratic candidate Abdulrahman “Abdul” El-Sayed released an ad on “Prayer” in which he says…
Rome conference asks whether the Church did enough to resist totalitarian regimes
A conference in Rome this week examined how the Church addressed totalitarian regimes in the 20th century. The conference “The Holy See in the Face of Totalitarian Systems in the…
Scholars criticize U.S. bishops for comparing proposed census rule to 18th century slave compromise
The U.S. bishops’ opposition to proposed rule changes affecting the 2030 census has provoked sharp criticism from U.S. historians and scholars, especially concerning the assertion that excluding noncitizens in the…
Lord of Miracles celebration in Peru: ‘It’s not enough to attend the procession,’ bishop exhorts
“It’s not enough to come to the procession; it‘s not enough to spend these festive days gathered around the image. What we must do is open our lives to the…
Eyewitness to train accident aftermath recounts dying man’s final words: ‘God is good’
URDA, Spain — The sight of two high-speed trains destroyed in a brutal head-on collision, their steel carriages mangled and twisted, forever shattered the quiet routine of Urda, a town…
Canada tables bill to halt MAID expansion for mental illness, decriminalize advance requests
The Canadian federal government tabled legislation on Tuesday that, if passed, would halt the scheduled March 17, 2027, expansion of euthanasia access to an individual solely experiencing a mental illness…
‘Father, give me a hug, I’m alive’: A priest’s testimony of the train collision in Spain
URDA, Spain — Everything changed for Father José Miguel Fernández, parish priest of the Spanish town of Urda, when he received a call from Archbishop Francisco Cerro Chaves of Toledo…
5 ‘God-incidences’ will mark Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming trip to South America
Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming visit to Latin America will be marked by at least five “God-incidences,” as people call the coincidences arranged by Divine Providence. Although the papal itinerary does…
China-Vatican deal has imperfections, Vatican’s foreign minister says
Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s secretary for relations with states and international organizations, acknowledged the challenges of the Vatican-China deal on Tuesday. Speaking at an event with journalists in Rome,…