Archive for August 23, 2024

A member of the Dominican Sisters’ Congregation of St. Rose of Lima in northern Italy sells prints at the Santa’s Sanctuary of Lima.?w=200&h=150

By Abel Camasca

The congregation in honor of St. Rose of Lima where all the sisters are named Rose

St. Rose was a Dominican tertiary. The Catholic Church celebrates her feast day on Aug. 23, though it was formerly... Read more

Masonic temple in North Hollywood, California.?w=200&h=150

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Freemasonry: why the Church prohibits membership

Catholics are strictly prohibited from being Masons or belonging to Freemasonry. Below are seven facts to know in order to... Read more

Cardinal Peter Turkson delivers the inaugural lecture at the opening of the 2024/2025 academic year of the Nairobi-based Hekima University College (HUC) on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Jude Atemanke,João Vissesse

Cardinal Turkson explores evolution of power in Church, society in Kenya college lecture

Ghanaian-born Cardinal Peter Turkson gave a lecture to open the new school year at the Nairobi, Kenya-based Hekima University College. Read more

Catholics from Papua New Guinea during the General Assembly that was held in Mingende, Kundiawa Diocese, in 2022.?w=200&h=150

By Andrés Henríquez

Pope Francis to find a lively and simple faith in Papua New Guinea

Pope Francis will visit Papua New Guinea as part of an apostolic journey that will take place Sept. 2–13 in... Read more

“This is about enshrining second- and third trimester-abortion and forcing taxpayers to fund abortion,” said Kelsey Pritchard, director of state public affairs at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, during an Aug. 22, 2024, interview on "EWTN Pro-Life Weekly."?w=200&h=150

By Kate Quiñones

With abortion on the ballot in 9 states, pro-life supporters ‘need to be engaged,’ leader says

Abortion is currently on the ballot in Montana, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, South Dakota, Missouri, New York, Maryland, Florida, and potentially... Read more

The third National Eucharistic Congress in Madagascar is underway Aug. 23-26. Pope Francis sent a message, saying that "each person should be a missionary of God’s love to others."?w=200&h=150

By Kristina Millare

Pope to Madagascar Eucharistic Congress pilgrims: Be missionaries of God’s love to others

In a message for pilgrims at the third National Eucharistic Congress in Madagascar, Pope Francis says each person should be... Read more

The Vatican has accepted the decree of an archbishop approving the spiritual activities of the Catholic Shrine of Chandavila in the town of La Codosera in Badajoz, Spain, where Our Lady of Sorrows is alleged to have appeared to two young girls at the end of World War II.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Vatican approves devotion to 1945 apparition of Our Lady of Sorrows in Spain 

An Aug. 22 letter from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith called Our Lady of Sorrows of Chandavila... Read more

Pope Francis meets with Beniamino Zuncheddu at the Vatican on Aug. 23, 2024. Zuncheddu, who was wrongly imprisoned for 33 years after being falsely accused of the triple homicide of three shepherds in 1991, had his conviction overturned and was released from prison.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis meets wrongly-imprisoned Italian man freed after 33 years behind bars

Beniamino Zuncheddu, now in his 60s, was released from prison in January after his murder conviction was overturned. Read more

A Border Patrol agent processes a group of unaccompanied Central American minors who crossed the Rio Grande River on May 26, 2021.?w=200&h=150

By Peter Pinedo

Tens of thousands of migrant youth unaccounted for; U.S. government fears many being trafficked

An audit by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has revealed that there are tens of thousands of migrant children... Read more

Planned Parenthood mobile van parked outside the Democratic National Convention offering free abortions and vasectomies.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

Planned Parenthood accused of violating tax-exempt status with abortion van at DNC

The abortion giant offered free abortions and vasectomies to residents and visitors in Chicago as the 2024 Democratic National Convention... Read more

Matagalpa, Nicaragua.?w=200&h=150

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Nicaraguan dictatorship eliminates tax exemptions for Catholic and evangelical churches

Lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina considers the measure a “fiscal blow” that will end up “financially suffocating the Church.” Read more

Couple in Germany.?w=200&h=150

By Kate Quiñones

Can I get a vasectomy? Here’s what the Catholic Church teaches

Each year an estimated 500,000 men in the U.S. choose vasectomies. Most who do so are middle-aged and married —... Read more

“This is a spiritual journey for me. I reached my decision through deep prayer, through hard logic” said former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upon making the announcement.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends campaign, urges voters to elect Donald Trump

Kennedy said the Democratic Party has “departed so dramatically on the core values that I grew up with.” Read more

A pro-life sign is seen on a roadside in Agnew, Nebraska, on May 14, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Jonah McKeown

Nebraska voters will consider dueling pro-life and pro-abortion amendments in November

One proposal would constitutionally enshrine the state’s current pro-life protections, and the other would enshrine a constitutional “right” to abortion. Read more

A Catholic pregnancy center called Aid for Women in north Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood was vandalized with red paint and the words "fake clinic" and "the dead babies are in Gaza" at 3 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 23, just hours after the closing of the Democratic National Convention. Mary FioRito, a spokesperson for the center, said that vandals also cemented the doors shut, forcing the nonprofit to cancel appointments for around 12 women.?w=200&h=150

By Peter Pinedo

Chicago pregnancy center vandalized as Democratic National Convention closes

Security cameras allegedly captured four vandals in the act of splattering red paint on the pregnancy center’s entrance and painting... Read more