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Pope Francis greets artists and participants of the 2024 Vatican Christmas Concert in the Clementine Hall on Dec. 14, 2024.

Pope Francis calls on Vatican Christmas Concert artists to promote peace, reconciliation

Dec 14, 2024

The pope emphasized the unique power of music to foster unity and communion, drawing parallels to the first Christmas.

Jack Traynor (next to child on first row) as a pilgrim to Lourdes in 1925, two years after his healing.

The healing of a Royal Navy sailor at Lourdes

Dec 14, 2024

Here is the story of John Traynor, whose miraculous healing at Lourdes was announced Dec. 8 by the archbishop of Liverpool.

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Christmas 2024: Catholic gifts for anyone on your shopping list

Dec 14, 2024

With Christmas quickly approaching, you may still be looking for the perfect gift for people on your shopping list.

Detail of a 1964 West German postage stamp showing Father Alfred Delp.

The Nazi resister who had one of the most profound Advents ever

Dec 14, 2024

Even before his ordeal in prison, Father Alfred Delp had preached and written extensively on Advent, even exhorting his people that “all of life is Advent.”

A pro-abortion activist displays abortion pills as she counter-protests during a pro-life rally on March 25, 2023, in New York City.

Trump commits to keeping abortion pill available

Dec 13, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump vowed he would not use his executive authority to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Superior, which has programs for the disabled, elderly, and impoverished, argued caring for those in need is part of its religious mission.

Supreme Court to hear Catholic Charities case on whether serving the poor is religious act

Dec 13, 2024

The Catholic Charities agency has argued that caring for those in need is part of its religious mission as a Catholic organization.

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Cardinal Cupich asks Catholics ‘to receive holy Communion standing’ in Chicago Archdiocese

Dec 13, 2024

“No one should engage in a gesture that calls attention to oneself or disrupts the flow of the procession,” Cardinal Blase Cupich wrote.

Pilgrims attend Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica Dec. 12, 2022, to mark the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas and the unborn.

Archbishop Cordileone wants to encourage a devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe in U.S.

Dec 13, 2024

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone told EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo on “The World Over” of his goal of “informing people of this call of Pope Francis.”

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Pope Francis meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2021.

Overturning Nancy Pelosi’s Communion ban: It’s too late for an appeal, expert says

Dec 13, 2024

Pelosi would have needed to bring her case to Pope Francis within 30 days of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s initial imposition of the ban, Father Stefan Mückl said.

Pope Francis blessing a baby during a general audience.

Vatican opens first day care for employees’ children

Dec 13, 2024

The Vatican’s first day care center is slated to begin operating next spring and will serve up to 30 children between ages 3 months to 3 years.

Statue of St. Lucy at the New Chapel of St. Lucy in Pampanga province, Philippines.

Pope Francis: St. Lucy is an example of female leadership in the Church

Dec 13, 2024

Pope Francis said that “we need women’s work and their word in a Church that reaches out that it may be leaven and light in the culture and in our lives together.”

Michael P. Warsaw, chairman and CEO of EWTN Global Catholic Network, presents the 2024 Mother Angelica Award to Curtis and Michaelann Martin, co-founders of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, on Dec. 12, 2024.

FOCUS co-founders receive 2024 Mother Angelica Award

Dec 13, 2024

EWTN Global Catholic Network presented the 2024 Mother Angelica Award to Curtis and Michaelann Martin, co-founders of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students.

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