Archive for December 31, 2017

Pope Francis delivers a homily at Vespers in St. Peter's Basilica on Dec. 31, 2017. ?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Our response to the gift of Jesus? – ‘Thank you,’ Pope says New Year’s Eve

At Vespers for the close of 2017, Pope Francis said that the only adequate response to God’s gift of His... Read more

An Ethiopian scroll in the Gerald and Barbara Weiner collection at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. ?w=200&h=150

By Adelaide Mena

One of the largest collections of Ethiopian religious texts is in DC

With a recent gift of more than 600 handmade leather manuscripts, the Catholic University of America is now home to... 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

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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

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Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa. | Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem

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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

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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

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