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Australian archbishop faces criticism over pastoral letter on human dignity

May 14, 2024

Archbishop Julian Porteous of Hobart in Australia released the four-page document titled “We are Salt to the Earth” on May 2.

“EWTN News Nightly” host Tracy Sabol speaks with Dr. Erin Lothes, a Catholic environmental theologian and senior manager of the Laudato Si’ Animators Program with the Laudato Si’ Movement, on on May 9, 2024.

As ocean temps hit record, Vatican hosts discussions on climate change, offers resources

May 14, 2024

The Laudato Si’ Action Platform provides resources for the Church to achieve real and lasting solutions to environmental problems. 

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito speaks to graduates at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, on May 11, 2024.

Justice Alito to Franciscan graduates: ‘Go out boldly and change the world’

May 14, 2024

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito challenged graduates at Franciscan University to embrace vital life lessons about courage and personal values.

The Medjugorje Youth Festival, in its 34th edition, held July 26–30, 2023, at the site of alleged Marian apparitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

What has the Vatican already said about discerning Marian apparitions?

May 14, 2024

Officials from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith discussed problems that could come up in examining apparitions in November 1974.

Pro-life activist Lauren Handy listens during a news conference on the five fetuses found inside the home where she and other anti-abortion activists were living on Capitol Hill at a news conference at the Hyatt Regency on April 5, 2022, in Washington, D.C.

UPDATE: Washington pro-life activists sentenced to years in prison under FACE Act

May 14, 2024

Handy and eight other pro-life activists were convicted nine months ago on felony charges of conspiracy against rights and violation of the FACE Act.

Pope Francis presides over a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on July 23, 2023, for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.

Pope Francis: Do not abandon grandparents and elderly; remain close to them

May 14, 2024

The Vatican released the message ahead of the fourth World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly, which takes place on July 28 this year.

Yemeni activist Tawakkol Karman, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2011, attends the Trento Economy Festival 2023 at Palazzo Geremia on May 25, 2023, in Trento, Italy.

Israeli embassy blasts Yemeni laureate for ‘genocide’ comments at Vatican event

May 14, 2024

“The world is silent in front of the genocide and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in Gaza,” Tawakkol Karman said on Saturday at the Vatican.

Kansas City Chiefs’ placekicker Harrison Butker speaks to college graduates in his commencement address at Benedictine College on Saturday, May 11, 2024.

Chiefs’ Harrison Butker chides Catholic leaders in Benedictine College commencement address 

May 14, 2024

Catholic bishops should be more like St. Damien of Molokai and less concerned about what civil and cultural leaders think about them, Butker said. 

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Germany now a ‘mission country,’ Bishop Bätzing says amid declining Catholic numbers

May 14, 2024

The president of the German Bishops’ Conference has called Germany — a nation whose history is entangled with the Catholic Church — a “mission country.”

Chicago priest apologizes for same-sex blessing, saying it violated Church norms

May 14, 2024

A priest in Chicago has apologized for the way in which he blessed a same-sex couple in April, calling it a “very poor decision.”

Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians gains a shrine in Wyoming

May 14, 2024

Bishop Robert Pipta of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma, Ohio, dedicated a shrine and an icon at Wyoming Catholic College. 

Why do so many Catholics use contraception? Experts weigh in

May 14, 2024

Large majorities of Catholics use birth control, which experts say is “a crisis of catechesis within the Church.”