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Knoxville Bishop Mark Beckman speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Tracy Sabol on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024.

Tennessee bishop on Hurricane Helene devastation: ‘Many have lost homes’

Oct 4, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

The storm made landfall last week, passing through multiple southeastern states during its trek through the U.S. and leaving destruction... Read more

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Toronto Archbishop Francis Leo speaks to EWTN News President and COO Montse Alvarado on assisted suicide and euthanasia on “EWTN Pro-Life Weekly” on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024.

Canadian archbishop on assisted suicide: ‘It is a travesty’

Volunteers smile while distributing relief supplies at Immaculata Catholic School in Hendersonville, North Carolina, October 2024.

PHOTOS: North Carolina Catholic school becomes major distribution center for hurricane relief

Pope Francis and King Philippe listen to a speech by Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo during the pope's trip to Belgium in late September 2024.

Belgian prime minister criticizes Pope Francis for statements on abortion

Bishops and cardinals concelebrate Mass with Pope Francis to open the second assembly of the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 2, 2024, in St. Peter’s Square.

Live updates: The Synod on Synodality debates the Catholic Church’s future

Knoxville Bishop Mark Beckman speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Tracy Sabol on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024.

Tennessee bishop on Hurricane Helene devastation: ‘Many have lost homes’

Photos of King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola. When abortion was first legalized in Belgium in 1990, King Baudouin chose to abdicate from his duties as king of the Belgians from April 3 to 5 in order not to sign the bill into law. When Baudouin died at the age of 63 in 1993, he had reigned continuously for 42 years except for those three days.

Who is King Baudouin? Meet the king of the Belgians whom Pope Francis wants to canonize

Archbishop of Barcelona and the president of the Episcopal Conference of Spain, Cardinal Juan José Omella y Omella, arrives at St. Peter’s Basilica for a penitential service for the Synod of Bishops presided by Pope Francis on Oct. 1, 2024, in Vatican City.

Analysis: This week at the Synod on Synodality — revolution or much ado about nothing?

Bombs strike southern Lebanon.

War in southern Lebanon puts thousands of Christians in constant danger, nun says

Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela.

In defiance of country’s bishops, Venezuelan dictator decrees start of Christmas season

On the first working day of the Synod on Synodality at the Vatican on Oct. 2, 2024, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, shut down speculation regarding further theological study into the possibility of women being ordained as deacons.

Synod rules out women deacons; meetings called to be ‘laboratories of synodal life’

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