Pope speaks with Israeli and Ukrainian presidents amid conflicts in Holy Land, Ukraine
Pope Leo XIV spoke by phone with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Good Friday. The Vatican said the pope spoke separately with both presidents on…
EWTN News explains: What are the Good Friday Reproaches?
The Good Friday Reproaches are a series of antiphons, known also as the “Improperia” or “Popule Meus” (“My People”), coming from the opening lines of the Latin text of the…
Release date for Season 6 of ‘The Chosen’ announced
Prime Video and 5&2 Studios announced April 3 that the sixth season of “The Chosen” will be released in the U.S. and internationally exclusively on Prime Video on Nov. 15.…
Ukraine bishop: War could spread to countries that ‘never imagined it reaching them’
Ahead of Easter, Bishop Vitalii Kryvytski, SDB, of Kyiv-Zhytomyr in Ukraine warned against conflicts spreading to unexpected places around the world as the war in the Middle East continues unabated.…
PHOTOS: Pilgrims keep watch with Eucharist at altars of repose in Rome
ROME — Hundreds of pilgrims in Rome visited churches to pray before special side altars containing the blessed sacrament, called altars of repose, on Holy Thursday. The altars of repose…
DNA research sheds new light on the Shroud of Turin’s complex history
A new study found that the Shroud of Turin — the cloth believed to have been used to bury Jesus Christ after his crucifixion — contains traces from multiple geographic…
Built to mirror Jerusalem, this Lithuanian Calvary has 35 stations of the cross
VILNIUS, Lithuania — On the northern edge of Lithuania’s capital, pilgrims walk a 7-kilometer (4.3-mile) route known as Vilnius Calvary, a landscape of chapels, gates, hills, and a small bridge…
Philippines Church mobilizes support for migrant workers hit by war, oil crisis
MANILA, Philippines — Three Filipino bishops have urged the Catholic dioceses in the Philippines to support overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), migrants, and their families back home amid the economic crisis…
PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV celebrates the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at the Vatican
Pope Leo XIV on Holy Thursday returned the Mass of the Lord’s Supper to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, reviving a papal practice last observed there in 2012 under…
Pope Leo XIV: ‘Kneel down as brothers and sisters alongside the oppressed’
Pope Leo XIV on Holy Thursday returned the Mass of the Lord’s Supper to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, reviving a papal practice last observed there in 2012 under…
Bishop Barron, Father Mike Schmitz to speak at Trump event rededicating U.S. to God
A few prominent Catholics are scheduled to speak at a May 17 event on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., where President Donald Trump will rededicate the United States to…
Teens sidestep parental notification through telehealth abortion, study shows
Teenagers and young adults are obtaining abortion pills through telehealth at high rates, a recent report found. The report, published in the journal JAMA Health Forum, looked at telehealth abortion…