Friendship adds to our happiness. Brooks, a convert to Catholicism and daily Massgoer, asserted that the most important key to happiness is practicing the faith.

FarragutfulAmabilia Filicchi, “Portrait of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton,” 1888. Background: The Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland. COMMENTARY: As we celebrate the Jubilee of Hope, we remember St.… 

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Courtesy photoBishop Iyad Twal, auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchal Diocese of Jerusalem of the Latins for Jordan. In Rome for a formation course for new bishops, the auxiliary bishop told the pontifical news agency Fides… 

Carrington TatumCharlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA and a vocal evangelical Christian who was assassinated on Sept. 10, 2025, speaks at an event in Texas in 2018. Throughout his career, Kirk encouraged young… 

EWTN News in DepthBenedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. The center will be directed by Benedictine College Professor of Theology and Bioethics Mariele Courtois, who is also a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and… 

The premiere of “Triumph of the Heart” in Dallas on Sept. 8, 2025. / Credit: Nicole Marie Richards CNA Staff, Sep 12, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). A new film called “Triumph of the Heart”… 

Erik Dike, a rising senior nursing student at Belmont Abbey College, carries a patient onboard a hospital ship in Madagascar during a two-week program with Mercy Ships. / Credit: Joshua Kiew Wing Chau CNA Staff,… 

Chet Strange Police officers are on the scene at Evergreen High School where a shooting occured earlier in the day, in Evergreen, Colorado, on Sept. 10, 2025. A shooting at Evergreen High School in Colorado… 

Vatican MediaPope Leo XIV preaches at the historic Rotonda church in Albano, Aug. 17, 2025. At Castel Gandolfo, the pontiff specifically expressed his concern about the situation in Gaza, after Israel ordered the immediate evacuation…