Archive for June 24, 2023

Kristin Turner, a pro-life activist and former atheist, talks with Prudence Robertson on a June 10, 2023, episode of EWTN Pro-Life Weekly.?w=200&h=150

By Tina Dennelly

Pro-life atheist to convert to Catholicism: ‘There is a God-shaped hole in my heart’

Kristin Turner, a 21-year-old activist, is now an ardent pro-life advocate who recently announced her intention to join the Catholic... Read more

Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades dedicates the organ at St. Pius X parish in Granger, Indiana, in 2022.?w=200&h=150

By Jim Graves

Catholic churches are buying pre-owned pipe organs to enhance their liturgies

While in some parts of the country church organs are being removed, destroyed, or sold, in other places they are... Read more

Daisy Almaraz won the seventh-grade section of the 2023 Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest.?w=200&h=150

By Joe Bukuras

Virginia Catholic school student wins national cursive handwriting contest

Daisy Almaraz, a student at Sacred Heart Academy in Winchester, Virginia, says good cursive writing makes her writing “better understood.” Read more

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Cardinal Kevin Farrell celebrates Mass for the World Meeting of Families 2022 on June 25, 2022.

Pope Francis assigns U.S. cardinal to carry out ‘urgent’ overhaul of Vatican pension fund

“In Jesus there is no contradiction between truth and charity,” notes professor Marta Rodríguez Díaz, who teaches in the philosophy department of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum.

Gender: The problem isn’t the term but the anthropology behind it, Catholic expert says

“We think of these stories of saints that have withstood all this persecution as belonging to the Middle Ages,” said Bill McGurn, godfather of Jimmy Lai. “It’s going on right now, and we can see it.”

Jimmy Lai’s godfather assesses trial: ‘He’s a real champion of freedom’

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Wyoming governor pledges to appeal after judge blocks state pro-life laws

Alessandro Allori, “The Presentation of Mary,” 1598.

What do we know about the presentation of Mary?

Archbishop Philip Anyolo of the Nairobi Archdiocese in Kenya.

Nairobi archbishop declines Kenyan president’s donations to Catholic parish

Jimmy Lai’s wife, Teresa (left), and retired Chinese Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun arrive at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts to attend Hong Kong activist publisher Lai’s national security trial in Hong Kong on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024.

Jimmy Lai takes the stand in yearslong Hong Kong national security trial

Senior fellow at the National Catholic Bioethics Center Joseph Meaney speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Tracy Sabol on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024.

Vietnam, with one of the highest abortion rates, leads UN initiative on premature births

Pope Francis greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday general audience on Nov. 20, 2024, at the Vatican.

Pope Francis reads Ukrainian student’s moving testimony of faith at general audience

Before the wooden coffin is closed, Pope Benedict XVI’s personal secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein and Monsignor Diego Giovanni Ravelli, the Vatican’s lead master of ceremonies for papal liturgies, place a white veil over the late pope’s face. The action on Jan. 4, 2023, is part of the funeral rites for popes.

Vatican simplifies funeral rite for popes

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