Background: The White House in Washington, D.C. Foreground: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, “The Virgin of the Lilies,” 1899. EDITORIAL: A White House message marking the Immaculate Conception repeated a common misunderstanding about when the Incarnation began —…
Daniese McMullin-Powell, who has used a wheelchair for most of her life, says Delaware’s assisted suicide law discriminates against people with disabilities. A bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill adults with a prognosis of…
Alan HoldrenArchbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary of Pope Benedict XVI. Archbishop Georg Gänswein says the late Pope’s joyful witness and fidelity to the Church make a strong case for advancing his cause without delay.
Traces of the first chapel where the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was first kept within the Old Parish of the Indians. The often-overlooked chapel at Tepeyac, where St. Juan Diego lived and guarded…
null / Credit: Guillaume Paumier via Flickr, filter added (CC BY 2.0) EWTN News, Dec 9, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Conservative factions across Europe have responded with concern to a recent ruling by the…
Benjamin West (1738-1820), “Moses and Aaron Before Pharaoh,” BJU Museum and Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Aaron’s staff becomes a serpent, the magicians answer in kind, and the drama of the plagues…
A view of St. Patrick’s Cathedral near Rockefeller Center in Manhattan on Feb. 2, 2023, in New York City. The cathedral was completed in 1878 the Gothic Revival style by architect James Renwick Jr. /…
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — For the past two Christmases, John Juka’s family restaurant looked about the same as any business in Bethlehem: Shuttered and eerily empty. But on Saturday evening, it bustled with families and…
ROME – Pope Leo XIV marked the traditional Marian feast of the Immaculate Conception urging faithful to imitate the Virgin Mary in embracing God’s plan for their lives, and to thus collaborate with him in…
Daniel IbañezWhen Pope Pius IX declared the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary on Dec. 8, 1854, he had a golden crown added to the mosaic of Mary, Virgin Immaculate, in the…