Bénédicte CedergrenStudents from Nordiska Musikgymnasiet — The Nordic Music High School — in Stockholm perform traditional Swedish “Lucia songs” during an afternoon Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 11, 2025. Students from Nordiska Musikgymnasiet…
FOCUS Founder Curtis Martin announces his retirement from the role of FOCUS CEO, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. Last year, Curtis and his wife Michaelann were honored with EWTN’s 2024 Mother Angelica Award.
On Sunday, Pope Leo XIV called for nations to give out amnesties and pardons to prisoners during the Jubilee year. Speaking in St Peter’s Basilica at a Mass for the Jubilee for prisoners and those…
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Jubilee of Hope for prisoners in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on December 14, 2025. / Mirjana Gabrić / EWTN Vatican City, Dec 14, 2025 / 05:25…
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois residents with terminal illnesses may choose to end their lives on their own terms under a law Gov. JB Pritzker signed Friday. Legalized medically assisted suicide takes effect in September 2026…
Simon Schwarz, head of the Caritas Vilnius Convicts Consultation Center, talks to university students in Vilnius, Lithuania. / Credit: Caritas Lithuania Vilnius, Lithuania, Dec 13, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA). Caritas Lithuania has launched a…
The top leader of the Anglican Church in North America faces a church trial after a board of inquiry said Friday it found probable cause for formal charges that include abuse of power and sexual…
IZNIK, Turkey — Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered one of the most important finds from Anatolia’s early Christian era: A fresco of a Roman-looking Jesus as the “Good Shepherd.” The painting was discovered in August…
FOCCUSFather Richard Reiser, an iconographer based in Omaha, Nebraska, writes an icon of St. Bridget of Sweden with her family for FOCCUS Marriage Ministries’ 40th anniversary. The end result was an icon ripe with symbolic…