The Vatican has called on religious leaders around the world to take an active role in promoting peace and urged them not to become “complicit through silence or fear” in the face of those who…
The Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), popularly known as the Vatican Bank. The Institute for the Works of Religion closed 2025 with a net profit of 51 million euros and approved a 24.3…
VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Emil Paul Tscherrig, a former apostolic nuncio, died Tuesday at the age of 79. He was born Feb. 3, 1947, in Unterems, Switzerland. Tscherrig was ordained a priest on April 11,…
DCStockPhotographyThe U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development headquarters is in Washington, D.C. The bishops warned that proposed rules could have moral consequences, with people losing housing assistance and others being denied the opportunity to…
Cardinal Emil Paul Tscherrig in 2024. The longtime Vatican diplomat, who served as apostolic nuncio to Italy and San Marino, was made a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2023.
Bishop Steven Lopes celebrates a chrism Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham, the principal church of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, in Houston in 2026. The Personal Ordinariate…
2023 photoThe faithful, including young adults, pray at the adoration chapel in St. Joseph Catholic Church in Greenwich Village. ANALYSIS: Lessons from literature and life shed light on where real meaning lies.
A monument stands at Bílá Hora (“White Mountain”) outside Prague, the Czech Republic, site of the 1620 battle that ended Bohemian Protestant resistance against the Habsburgs. The May 8 gatherings, organized by lay groups around…
Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN NewsCardinal Charles Maung Bo. The archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, described overlapping economic, social, and humanitarian crises facing his country at the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference plenary in Sydney.
The dome of the Church of Escuelas Pías in Valencia, Spain, one of the largest masonry domes in the country. The European Heritage Awards have spotlighted two contrasting models for saving sacred buildings, as Europe…