Archive for April 16, 2022

Dutch flowers decorate St. Peter’s Square for Easter Sunday Mass 2019.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

How the tradition of Dutch flowers at the pope’s Easter Mass was saved

At the start of this year, a Vatican Easter tradition hung in the balance. Read more

Pope Benedict XVI on Aug. 28, 2010.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

5 things to know about Benedict XVI

The pope emeritus was born on April 16, 1927. Read more

"What's the Eucharist?" Kent Shi, a 25-year-old Harvard graduate student, asked that question when he attended eucharistic adoration for the first time. The answer put him on a path to conversion.?w=200&h=150

By Joe Bukuras,Shannon Mullen

Finding faith at Harvard: These 5 Easter conversion stories will make your day

This year, 31 people — 17 of whom are students at Harvard — will enter the Catholic Church at a... Read more

Bishop Georg Bätzing at the German bishops’ spring meeting in February 2021. Credit: Sascha Steinbach/epa pool.?w=200&h=150

By CNA Staff

German bishops' president responds to letter warning of schism risk in synodal path

Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, president of the German bishops’ conference, responded Thursday to a letter warning the country’s synodal... Read more

Pope Francis prays at the Easter Vigil Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on April 16, 2022.?w=200&h=150

By Courtney Mares

Pope Francis at Easter Vigil: The Risen Lord has robbed evil of its power

Pope Francis did not preside over the Easter Vigil Mass, but he delivered the homily and baptized seven people. Read more

Pope Francis at the Easter Vigil Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on April 16, 2022.?w=200&h=150

By Pope Francis

Easter Vigil 2022: Full text of Pope Francis’ homily

Here is the full text of Pope Francis' homily for Easter Vigil 2022. Read more

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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?’

Pro-lifers participate in the Illinois March for Life in Springfield, April 17, 2024.

Thousands of pro-lifers attend ‘joy-filled’ Illinois March for Life

Participants in Italy's pro-life demonstration in Rome on May 21, 2022.

Italy set to pass amendment allowing pro-life groups into family planning clinics 

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