Archive for November 5, 2024

Consultant Surgeon Andrew Ready and his team conduct a live donor kidney transplant at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham on June 9, 2006, in Birmingham, England.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

Can Catholics donate their organs? Here’s what the Church says

The Catholic Church states that organ donation is an acceptable and even morally laudable practice, but it must always be... Read more

Bishop Robert Barron is the founder of Word on Fire, a media apostolate focused on evangelization.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

Bishop Robert Barron pans ‘Conclave’ movie: ‘Run away from it as fast as you can’

“If you are interested in a film about the Catholic Church that could have been written by the editorial board... Read more

The blood of St. Januarius liquefied on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, before a Mass in Naples, Italy, where Archbishop Domenico Battaglia said that the blood of the fourth-century martyr is a powerful reminder that “love is stronger than death.”?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis includes Naples, Italy, archbishop among new cardinals

During his tenure in Naples, Italy, the archbishop has spoken out strongly against the violence of organized crime in the... Read more

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By Madalaine Elhabbal

Britain to get its first Catholic medical school in 2026

“We are proud to be London’s Catholic university and to launch the first school of medicine at a Catholic university... Read more

Pope Francis speaks to the academic community at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome on Nov. 5, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú,AC Wimmer

Pope Francis at Gregorian University warns of ‘Coca-Cola spirituality’

Speaking at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, the pope told faculty and students to avoid superficial approaches to faith... Read more

The Vatican on Oct. 31, 2024, inaugurated a center to welcome pilgrims and tourists before they visit St. Peter’s Basilica.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Vatican opens visitor center for St. Peter’s Basilica

The space, inaugurated Oct. 31, is intended to provide practical, artistic, and spiritual information to visitors of the Vatican basilica. Read more

Activist Marguerite Stern poses for a picture in an artist squat in Paris on Sept. 6, 2019.?w=200&h=150

By Solène Tadié

Radical feminist who desecrated Notre Dame Cathedral apologizes to Catholics

In a video posted on social media, Marguerite Stern said she believes that by attacking the Catholic religion, she has... Read more

Lila Rose, founder of Live Action.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

Overcoming prior hesitation, Catholic Live Action President Lila Rose votes for Trump

“I will be voting for Donald Trump,” Lila Rose, who is Catholic, said in a Nov. 2 post on X,... Read more

Rita Marker, a longtime advocate against assisted suicide, died Oct. 30, 2024, at the age of 83. She was the founder, with her husband, Mike, of the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, later renamed the Patients Rights Council, where Rita served as the executive director until early 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Jonah McKeown

Rita Marker, prolific anti-euthanasia advocate, dies at 83

Marker, a mother of seven, was appointed with her husband of six decades, Mike, to the Vatican’s Pontifical Council on... Read more

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By Daniel Payne

‘Profoundly relieved’: Major abortion amendment in Florida fails to pass

The failure of Amendment 4 offers a sharp rebuke to the pro-abortion lobby, which poured more than $100 million into... Read more

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, OFM Cap, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), speaks at a press briefing for the Synod on Synodality at the Vatican on Oct. 24, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By ACI Africa

Cardinal raises questions on ‘hasty beatification’ plans for King Baudouin of Belgium

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo raised a “red flag” about the pope’s announcement in Belgium about opening the beatification cause of King... Read more

Interior of St. George Martyr Parish in Paiporta in Valencia province, Spain, in the aftermath of recent flooding in Spain.?w=200&h=150

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

Torrent of mud catches parishioners by surprise during Eucharistic adoration in Spain

“We’re not dead because a neighbor came looking for her mother [and warned us] while we were adoring the Blessed... Read more

Missionaries of Charity during a religious procession in the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.?w=200&h=150

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Convent founded by Mother Teresa burned down in continued escalation of violence in Haiti

According to a report, the devastating attack took place on the night of Oct. 26. The group of attackers was... Read more

House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks with EWTN News in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

Speaker Mike Johnson on EWTN News: Catholics, Pennsylvanians are key to election

“[Trump] often asks me, ‘Will the Catholics like this? Will the evangelicals like this?'” Speaker Mike Johnson said. Read more

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By Tyler Arnold

Catholic voters favor Trump over Harris nationally and in swing states, exit polls show

Both Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, courted the Catholic vote heavily in the last few weeks of the... Read more