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Ricky Reyes dribbles the ball up court as now-Father Peter Schirripa follows behind at the national basketball tournament for seminaries in 2022.

Shooting hoops for heaven: Boston seminarians form basketball team for God

Nov 6, 2023

By Joe Bukuras

The goal of a team of seminarians from St. John’s Seminary is twofold: victory in the spiritual life and a... Read more

Tom Riles' handwritten affirmation cards. Republished with permission.

Why these cards inspired a Catholic grandpa to build an app

Aug 14, 2016

By Mary Farrow

For twenty-five years, Tom Riles has carried a stack of index cards in his shirt pocket.  Read more

Kurt and Janet Von Schuschnigg speak to CNA about their new book

Austrian chancellor’s son tells how faith helped him survive Nazis

May 17, 2012

By Michelle La Rosa

Kurt von Schuschnigg Jr., son of the former chancellor of Austria, says that his Catholic faith helped him get through... Read more

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urges ‘massive subsidized day care’ plan to reduce abortion

Orvich said he wanted to share his experience with same sex attraction “so that the Lord might touch hearts and that people repent and try returning to a chaste life."

Redeemed from sexual libertinism, prostitution, and occult, Fran Orvich tells his story

People join together during a “Rally to Stop the Six-Week Abortion Ban” held at Lake Eola Park on April 13, 2024, in Orlando, Florida.

Could Florida become the first state to defeat an abortion amendment?

Edward Burne-Jones, “St. George Kills the Dragon,” 1866

Did St. George really slay a dragon?

Ana Estrada, 47, suffered from polymyositis, an incurable disease that left her confined to a wheelchair. Since 2019, she had been been petitioning Peruvian courts to recognize a right to euthanasia.

For first time, incurably ill patient undergoes euthanasia in Peru

Argentine pro-life Dr. Leandro Rodríguez Lastra.

Argentine doctor completes prison sentence for preventing a chemical abortion in process

Pope Francis greets an elderly couple at a general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Pope Francis to meet with thousands of grandparents and their grandchildren at the Vatican

Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin of the Catholic Eparchy of Adigrat in Ethiopia, which covers the Tigray region.

‘I’m a witness to unspeakable suffering’: Ethiopia bishop wants peace pact implemented

Left to right: Dr. John Bruchalski, a former abortionist and IVF provider, Emma Waters, a senior research associate at the Heritage Foundation, Andrew Kubick, a bioethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center and the Religious Freedom Institute, and Sister Deirdre Byrne, superior of the D.C. Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts, discuss the "eugenic" dangers of in vitro fertilization at a panel event at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., April 18, 2024.

Experts and former abortionist warn about ‘eugenic’ IVF industry

Reporter Catherine Hadro speaks with Sister Mary Gianna of the Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ and Frank DeAngelis on “EWTN News In Depth” on April 19, 2024. Sister Mary Gianna, also known as Jenica Thornby, was a sophomore at Columbine High School and DeAngelis was principal on April 20, 1999, when two gunmen killed 12 students and one teacher before turning their guns on themselves.

Columbine High School massacre, 25 years later: ‘God, why did you allow me to survive?’

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