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Residents continue recovery and cleanup efforts on May 23, 2024, with the help of family and friends following Tuesday’s destructive tornado in Greenfield, Iowa. The storm was responsible for several deaths in the small community.

Iowa parish still working to help tornado victims after deadly twister

May 24, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

After a tornado ripped through the small town of Greenfield, Iowa, on May 21, St. John’s Catholic Church has mobilized... Read more

A pro-abortion activist displays abortion pills as she counter-protests during an anti-abortion demonstration on March 25, 2023, in New York City.

Pro-life roundup: Louisiana passes abortion fraud bill, California invites abortionists from Arizona

May 24, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

A look at major abortion-related developments that took place in the states this week. Read more

Cardinal Bo during his interview with ACI Prensa and EWTN News.

Myanmar conflict: a state of unprecedented turmoil and suffering, Cardinal Bo says

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, archbishop of Yangon in Myanmar, says there is an “unprecedented state of turmoil and suffering, which... Read more

Small white vans dubbed "monstrance mobiles" are being used for the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. They are just big enough for some of the "perpetual pilgrims" and a pedestal upon which Christ in the monstrance can be placed.

What would a road trip with Jesus and Mary be like? These young Catholics are finding out

May 24, 2024

By Peter Pinedo

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be one of the apostles and journey, eat, joke, and... Read more

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Catholic bishops sue Biden administration over abortion provisions in pregnant workers law

May 24, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

The lawsuit challenges regulations issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Read more

The Reichstag in Berlin, seat of the German federal Parliament.

German bishops praise constitution on 75th anniversary of post-Nazi era

May 24, 2024

By AC Wimmer

German bishops have lauded their country’s constitution as a beacon of freedom as the nation commemorates the 75th anniversary of... Read more

Pilgrims from South Korea wave a flag at the closing Mass of World Youth Day Lisbon with Pope Francis on Aug. 6, 2023.

International conference on youth ministry wrapping up in Rome

May 24, 2024

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

Nearly 300 delegates hailing from bishops’ conferences in 110 countries are meeting in Rome to participate in the International Youth... Read more

City skyline in Sydney, Australia.

Australian Mass attendance dropped during pandemic restrictions, but young adults show up

May 24, 2024

By AC Wimmer

A new report by the Church in Australia shows a drop in Mass attendance in 2021 while also highlighting an... Read more

Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska.

Bishop Conley asks Pope Francis to provide ‘encouragement, clarity, support’ to U.S. bishops

May 24, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

In a recent letter, the bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, encouraged the pope to “familiarize himself” with the American episcopate before... Read more

Pro-abortion activists include the Marea Verde, or Green Wave Movement, a grassroots coalition of protesters who wear green bandanas at events.

Survey: Pro-abortion laws ascendant globally

Despite the release of the Vatican document Dignitas Infinita (“Infinite Dignity”), various nations continue moving in the opposite direction on... Read more

National Shrine and Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Sheshan, also known as Basilica of Mary, Help of Christians, in Shanghai, China.

Why the feast of Mary, Help of Christians is a special day for Catholics in China

May 24, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed May 24, the feast of Our Lady, Help of Christians, to also be a World Day... Read more

As Father Julio Fernández Techera sees it, the Society of Jesus’ leadership prefers “to maintain the fiction that things are going well rather than risk recognizing the religious and apostolic decline of the society.”

Prominent Jesuit: The Society of Jesus is in ‘profound decline’

May 24, 2024

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Father Julio Fernández Techera, SJ, rector of the Catholic University of Uruguay, has written a widely circulated, critical essay about... Read more

Elena Guerra, Marie-Léonie Paradis, and Giuseppe Allamano are among the Blesseds whom Pope Francis paved the way for canonization in a decree on May 23, 2024. 

Pope Francis paves the way for the canonization of new saints with zeal for mission work

May 24, 2024

By Matthew Santucci

The Holy See said Pope Francis “has decided to convene a consistory, which will also concern the canonization” of four... Read more

Valerie Huber, the president and CEO of the Institute for Women's Health, speaks to EWTN Pro-Life Weekly on Thursday, May 23, 2024

Pro-life leader launches ‘life-affirming, family-strengthening’ health ministry for women

May 24, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

President of the Institute for Women’s Health Valerie Huber speaks with EWTN News President Montse Alvarado on “EWTN Pro-Life Weekly.” Read more

Hundreds of Catholics join the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas on May 22, 2024.

Hundreds brave extreme heat to accompany the Eucharistic Lord in south Texas

May 24, 2024

By Peter Pinedo

The aptly named Juan Diego Route began in a place where devotion to Christ and his Virgin Mother is as... Read more

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Florida priest charged for biting arm of woman he says was desecrating Eucharist

May 23, 2024

By Matt McDonald

Father Fidel Rodriguez admitted to police that he bit the woman but said he did so only after she reached... Read more

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Coptic Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria.

Cardinal Fernández meets with Coptic Church leader over same-sex blessing rift

May 23, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, who heads the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, met with the leader of the... Read more

Pope Francis speaks from the window of the Apostolic Palace on a rainy Sunday in Rome on Feb. 11, 2024.

Pope Francis lambasts the scourge of human trafficking 

May 23, 2024

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

Pope Francis today urged the abolition of human trafficking, “one of the most terrible scourges of our time” that disrespects... Read more

A moment of prayer during the procession through the narrow streets of the Christian quarter of Bab-Touma (St. Paul) in the Old City of Damascus on July 9, 2023, in celebration of the liturgical feast of the Martyrs of Damascus.

Joy in Syria: Pope Francis gives ‘green light’ for canonization of ‘Martyrs of Damascus’ 

May 23, 2024

By Marinella Bandini

The Vatican has announced that eight Franciscan friars and three laymen who were killed for their faith in Syria will... Read more

Blessed Carlo Acutis.

10 things you should know about Blessed Carlo Acutis

Who was Carlo Acutis? Was his body found incorrupt? Was he really a gamer? What did he play? Here are... Read more