Jack Figge, shown as a student journalist, attends a past press conference at the Vatican. COMMENTARY: Working as a Catholic journalist has taught me that there’s always more to someone than what you read about…
New bill would protect mothers with surrogacy contracts from forced abortions Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tennessee, introduced on July 21 a bill designed to protect pregnant mothers who are surrogates from being forced to have abortions.…
A sedevacantist group of monks in Scotland hosted an illicit consecration of a “bishop” on July 25 in spite of repeated warnings that doing so would constitute a schismatic act and a break from the…
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Lebanese-born Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia El-Kassis to serve as the Holy See’s permanent observer at the United Nations in New York, the Vatican announced on July 25. The Vatican is not a…
Annie and RJ Harber speak to Catherine Hadro on ‘EWTN News in Depth,’ July 24, 2026. The couple lost their two daughters, Blair and Brooke, in the 2025 Central Texas floods, and they say their…
Missouri’s Catholic bishops are urging state voters to consider “justice and equity” ahead of a state vote that may eliminate personal income tax there, with the prelates warning that such a measure could adversely impact…
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s secretary for relations with states and international organizations, meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on July 20, 2026. The Holy See’s foreign minister said it is…
Members of the European Parliament are urging Mairead McGuinness, the European Unionʼs special envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, to engage with Pakistan over forced religious conversions as the countryʼs Federal Constitutional Court is…
May we keep our eyes on Christ. The Sunday Gospel asks a fundamental question: ‘What is it that you value most?’
The Diocese of Crookston in Minnesota announced that seven parishes will cease celebrating Sunday Mass in the coming months due to factors including a shortage of priests, lack of young people in religious formation, and…