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Vice President JD Vance speaks at a film-screening event April 1, 2025, at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

JD Vance speaks at Rod Dreher’s ‘Live Not by Lies’ screening in Washington, DC

Apr 2, 2025

In his remarks, Vance returned to the theme he raised in his speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he criticized EU leaders for undermining free speech.

Asylum seekers wait for their CBP One appointments with U.S. authorities before crossing through El Chaparral port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on Jan. 20, 2025.

Catholic, evangelical leaders: ‘Suffering’ of mass deportation affects all Christians

Apr 2, 2025

Currently, 80% of all individuals at risk of deportation are Christians.

Participants speak at the conference “Jews and Catholics on Ethics: A Light to the Nations” at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome on April 1, 2025.

At Vatican conference, Catholic and Jewish scholars discuss faith as foundation for ethics

Apr 2, 2025

The April 1–2 conference in Rome brought together Catholic and Jewish scholars from around the world to the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Cardinal Vincent Nichols of the Archdiocese of Westminster.

UK bishops’ conference president speaks out against ‘deeply flawed’ assisted suicide bill

Apr 2, 2025

Cardinal Vincent Nichols appealed in an April 1 pastoral letter to U.K. Catholics to contact their representatives and express their opposition to an assisted suicide bill.

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Pope Francis: ‘God does not pass by without looking for those who are lost’

Apr 2, 2025

In his written catechesis, the Holy Father described Jesus’ encounter with Zacchaeus as having a “special place” in his own spiritual journey.

Reconstruction of the face of St. Teresa of Ávila as she would have appeared at approximately age 50.

What St. Teresa of Ávila would have looked like

Apr 2, 2025

A scientific reconstruction of what would have been the face of St. Teresa of Avila at age 50 was presented in the town in Spain where the Carmelite nun died and is buried. 

The Basilica of the Holy Trinity at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima in Portugal.

After Lourdes’ decision on Rupnik art, Fátima shrine not planning to remove mosaics

Apr 2, 2025

The Fátima shrine in Portugal will not be taking down its Rupnik mosaic installation but has stopped using the image in any distributed materials.

The documentation of Mary’s case was submitted to the Solanus Casey Center.

Teen’s tumors disappear after prayers to Blessed Solanus Casey

Apr 2, 2025

Many Catholics credit prayers of intercession to Blessed Solanus Casey for curing and helping people who suffer from illnesses. Mary Bartold now does, too.

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In 1984, Pope John Paul II met in Rome with 300,000 young people from all over the world in a meeting that laid the foundations for today’s World Youth Day.

Pope John Paul II 20 years later: ‘He lives in hearts’

Apr 2, 2025

“Very early on, we, not only me, had the impression that we were dealing with a saint,” said a longtime employee of Vatican News who covered John Paul II’s papacy.

Livia Tossici-Bolt is awaiting a verdict in her case in which she was charged with violating a “buffer zone” that restricts pro-life speech near abortion clinics.

U.S. State Department ‘monitoring’ UK government arrest of pro-life advocate

Apr 1, 2025

A bureau of the U.S. Department of State announced it is “monitoring” an arrest of a pro-life advocate in the United Kingdom.

“Today we run the risk that our organizations, so dependent on the welfare state ... could be easily confused with a very bureaucratic NGO [nongovernmental organization],” said Archbishop Luis Argüello, president of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference.

Secularization: Being born in Spain no longer means you’re Catholic, archbishop says

Apr 1, 2025

Archbishop Luis Argüello opened the Spanish Bishops’ Conference’s 127th plenary assembly this week with a deep analysis of Spain’s growing secularization.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance waves to the crowd at the 2025 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.

Report: Vice President JD Vance intends to visit Rome at Easter

Apr 1, 2025

Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the vice president plans to arrive in Rome on Good Friday, April 18, and depart from the city on Easter Sunday, April 20.

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