Archive for December 21, 2016

Jenna Guizar of Blessed Is She. Courtesy of Jenna Guizar. ?w=200&h=150

By Mary Farrow

Catholics who actually read the Bible – one woman's online ministry

Jenna Guizar is a busy woman.  Read more

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Are these quite possibly the world's happiest nuns?

The Eucharistic Communicators of the Heavenly Father are a community of nuns from Colombia who have a great passion for... Read more

Barbara Jatta at the Vatican. Courtesy of the Vatican Museums.?w=200&h=150

By Elise Harris

Meet the first woman in history to run the Vatican museums

On Tuesday it was announced that Barbara Jatta, a wife and mother of three children, will be the new director... Read more

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By Elise Harris

Vatican speaks out on unapproved bishop ordinations in China

After the recent unauthorized ordination of bishops in China, which falls just ahead of a major meeting for Chinese Catholic... Read more

Pope Francis celebrates Mass for the Solemnity of the Epiphany in St. Peter's Basilica on Jan. 6, 2015. ?w=200&h=150

By Elise Harris

At Christmas, Jesus offers a new kind of hope, Pope Francis says

While hope can often be viewed as the desire for things out of our reach, Pope Francis has said that... Read more

St. John Paul II, circa 1991. ?w=200&h=150

By Adelaide Mena

This man was 9 years-old when he saw John Paul II get shot

Thirty-five years after Saint John Paul II was shot in St. Peter’s Square, a witness on the from the front... Read more

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Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, secretary for relations with states and international organizations of the Holy See. | Credit: Santosh Digal

Archbishop Gallagher: Surrogacy is a ‘new form of colonialism’

Pope Leo XIV next to the new mosaic of him that will be added to St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica in Rome. | Credit: Vatican Media

Mosaic bearing Pope Leo XIV’s portrait readied for St. Paul Outside the Walls

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UPDATE: Ohio moves to close nursing home amid ‘widespread care failures’ after purchase from Catholic nuns

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa. | Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Cardinal Pizzaballa: There is a longing for justice and human dignity in Iran

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquarters building in Washington, D.C. | Credit: ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Trump administration restores Title X funding to Planned Parenthood

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Multistate lawsuit challenges ‘gender conditions’ tied to HHS funding

Republicans say they are crafting a bill to permanently defund Planned Parenthood Jan. 13, 2026. | Credit: usarmyband, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

House Republican budget plan would permanently defund Planned Parenthood

Veteran EWTN executive Edwin Lopez is the new executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines Commission on Social Communications. | Credit: Photo courtesy of Edwin Lopez

Veteran EWTN executive appointed to Communications Commission post with Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu in 2019. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN

Vatican prosecutor steps aside as London property trial appeal moves forward

The image of the Black Nazarene moves through dense crowds during the 30-hour procession in Manila, Philippines, on Jan. 9, 2026. | Credit: CBCP News

Manila’s feast of the Black Nazarene draws 9.6 million devotees

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