Archive for March 26, 2024

Greensburg officers are sworn in to serve the Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania.?w=200&h=150

By Kate Quiñones

Pennsylvania diocese puts retired police officers in Catholic schools to protect, ‘mentor’

The Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, is working to keep students safe by hiring retired police officers who become not only... Read more

Father Augustus Tolton’s life was explored in an October 2022 episode of EWTN’s “They Might Be Saints.”?w=200&h=150

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

Illinois diocese creates Boy Scouts patch honoring Venerable Father Augustine Tolton

The Catholic Committee on Scouting in the Diocese of Springfield announced the Venerable Father Augustine Tolton Activity Patch. Read more

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By Tyler Arnold

‘NaPro technology’ offers a pro-life alternative to IVF for infertility treatment

NaPro approaches fertility treatment by two methods: identifying and treating the underlying causes of infertility and charting the woman’s fertility... Read more

This photo taken on Jan. 15, 2024, shows a Chinese flag fluttering below a cross on a Christian church in Pingtan, in China's southeast Fujian province.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

Government restrictions on religion reach ‘peak levels’ in latest Pew global survey

Overall, China, Russia, Afghanistan, Iran, and Algeria topped the report’s list of countries with “very high” government restrictions. Read more

In an aerial view, cargo ship Dali is seen after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024, in Baltimore.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

Baltimore archbishop calls for prayers after catastrophic bridge collapse

Archbishop William Lori called for prayers after a container strip struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore City, leading... Read more

The Stations of the Cross at Rome’s Colosseum, April 15, 2022.?w=200&h=150

By Matthew Santucci

Pope Francis to write meditations for Good Friday Way of the Cross for the first time

The reflection will be based on the theme “In Prayer with Jesus on the Way of the Cross.” Read more

Christendom’s president-elect, George Harne, is currently a professor at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Before then, he served as president of Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts for nine years.?w=200&h=150

By Kate Quiñones

Christendom College names George Harne as next president

Currently a professor at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Harne formerly served as president of Magdalen College of the... Read more

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on March 26, 2024, for a lawsuit brought by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM), which seeks to impose more restrictions on the prescription of mifepristone.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

Abortion pill opponents face Supreme Court skepticism

The justices heard oral arguments on March 26 for a lawsuit brought by Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM). Read more

Some Greek Orthodox monks at the entrance of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher wait for the solemn entrance of the patriarch on Saturday, March 23, 2024, for the First Vesper of the first Sunday of Lent, called the "Sunday of Orthodoxy."?w=200&h=150

By Marinella Bandini

PHOTOS: As Catholics enter Holy Week, Orthodox churches begin Great Lent in Holy Land

As the Catholic Church in the Holy Land entered Holy Week by literally retracing the steps of Jesus’ passion, the... Read more

Archbishop Dionisio Guillermo García of Santiago de Cuba prays before an image of Mary in the Basilica National Sanctuary of Our Lady of Charity on March 24, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Diego López Marina

Cuban archbishop makes emotional plea to Virgin Mary for electricity, food, and freedom 

The archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, Dionisio Guillermo García, offered a lengthy prayer before the nation’s patroness, the Virgin of... Read more

Hundreds of pro-life and pro-abortion demonstrators hold rallies alongside each other as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the high-stakes abortion pill case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. Food and Drug Administration, March 26, 2024.?w=200&h=150

By Peter Pinedo

PHOTOS: Pro-life and pro-abortion activists hold dueling rallies outside Supreme Court

While there were significantly more pro-abortion demonstrators present outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday, there were many pro-life doctors and... Read more

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Professor Mouna Maroun is the first Arab to be elected as the rector of an Israeli university, the University of Haifa. Maroun belongs to the Arab minority in Israel, the Christian minority among Arabs, and the Maronite minority among Christians. She says she is proud of her religious affiliation and wears a golden crucifix around her neck. "My election is an important message that everything is possible in the Israeli academia," she told CNA.

First Arab Christian woman to lead Israel’s University of Haifa

Mother Marla Marie stands on the front porch of the sisters’ Mother of the Light convent in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

From the Washington Post to the Maronite convent: Meet Mother Marla Marie

Father Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, discusses the protests at Columbia University in New York City on EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” on May 2, 2024.

Columbia’s Catholic chaplain: Campus protests were pushed by ‘explicitly communist’ outsiders

President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesuit Father Greg Boyle on May 3, 2024.

Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesuit priest for work with youth

Martyred by the Nazis, Dutch St. Titus Brandsma was a journalist who gave his life so that the truths of the faith would not be silenced.

The prayer of a holy journalist before dying for the freedom of the Catholic press

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Chicago priest blesses same-sex ‘spouses,’ says Fiducia Supplicans allows it

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa gives the homily at a Mass in which he took possession of his titular church, St. Onuphrius, in Rome on May 1, 2024.

Cardinal Pizzaballa: Peace in Holy Land built on dialogue, action

The spiritual shepherd of the Church in Singapore is Cardinal William Goh, archbishop since early 2013 and a cardinal since 2022.

Cardinal Goh of Singapore: ‘Deep encounter with Jesus’ is key to passing on the faith

Oviedo Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes accused the government of focusing "in a biased and manipulative way on the problem of pedophilia as something attributable only to the Catholic Church."

Spanish archbishop slams government’s obsession with the Catholic Church

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Florida issues emergency rules to combat Biden abortion ‘misinformation’ 

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