MUMBAI – The vandalism of a village chapel has shaken a small Christian community in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Sacred items were burned and the church building damaged in an attack on March…
Luxembourg has become the second country in Europe to enshrine the “freedom to abort” in its constitution, following the precedent set by France in 2024. The Luxembourg unicameral legislature approved establishing the “freedom to abort”…
Credit: Holy See Mission to the United NationsArchbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, speaks on Aug. 29, 2025, the International Day Against Nuclear Tests. Archbishop Gabriele…
In a standing-room-only event, college students lined the walls of a large room at the University of Dallas to hear three Catholic academics and an apologist reflect on what makes America exceptional in a celebration…
Aaron P. BernsteinFormer Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz speaks during a campaign rally at the County War Memorial Coliseum November 5, 2018 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Beautiful things to know about the strong Catholic…
Syriac Catholic PatriarchateThe patriarchs and bishops of Lebanon have called for “perseverance in prayer for peace.” The Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops in Lebanon issued a statement combining a clear spiritual stance, a bold…
Alexander RuszczynskiBernini’s monumental statue of St. Longinus stands inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Tradition holds that the soldier who pierced Christ’s side at the Crucifixion came to believe in him and is honored…
As Pope Leo XVI prepares to visit Algeria, the Bishop Michel Jean-Paul Guillaud of Constantine says the Holy Father’s presence will demonstrate that Christianity “is an asset and not a danger” to Algeria. In an…
MANILA, Philippines – Filipino Jesuit Father Henry Ponce, 51, knows the feeling of a migrant. He himself was one. For seven years, before he entered the Society of Jesus in 2004, Ponce worked as a…
Cardinal Joseph Zen, a prominent supporter of the Traditional Latin Mass, has urged the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) to avoid schism by listening to Pope Leo XIV’s explanations of the Second Vatican Council.…