Archive for February 15, 2025

Top row from left: Pierangelo Capuzzimati, Sr. Clare Crockett, Matteo Farina. Bottom row from left: Helena Agnieszka Kmieć, Akash Bashir, Carlo Acutis.?w=200&h=150

By Diego López Marina

A new generation of saints? 6 millennials on the road to canonization

Six young people who lived with deep faith and committed their lives to the Church that Jesus founded are on... Read more

On Feb. 15, 2015, ISIS militants brutally executed 21 Coptic Christian prisoners on a beach in Libya. Now, on the 10th anniversary of their deaths, a short animated film called “The 21” is honoring these 21 men who died because of their unwillingness to deny their faith in Jesus Christ.?w=200&h=150

By Francesca Pollio Fenton

New animated film honors legacy of 21 Coptic Martyrs on 10th anniversary of their martyrdom

A new short film produced by Jonathan Roumie honors the 21 Coptic Martyrs on 10th anniversary of their martyrdom Read more

A recent meeting of various members of the ecumenical initiative Easter Together 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Victoria Cardiel

Ecumenical initiative calls for unity to celebrate Easter together

This year both Easters — Catholic and Orthodox — fall on the same date, April 20, due to the alignment... Read more

A view of Rome’s Gemelli Hospital where Pope Francis was delivered Feb. 14, 2025, to receive treatment for bronchitis.?w=200&h=150

By AC Wimmer

Pope Francis ‘peaceful’ after first night in Rome hospital

“Medical assessments and necessary treatments are continuing,” after Pope Francis had a “peaceful night” and read several newspapers Saturday morning. Read more

Sister Raffaella Petrini.?w=200&h=150

By AC Wimmer

Sister Raffaella Petrini appointed president of Vatican governorate

Sister Raffaella Petrini will become the first woman to lead the Vatican City State governorate when she takes office March... Read more

Left to right: Paolo Carozza, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame; Christine Rosen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Carter Snead, a Notre Dame law professor and bioethicist, discuss “the corporeal dimension of human identity in an age of virtual reality” at the New York Encounter in New York City on Feb. 15, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Zelda Caldwell

New York Encounter: Technology is costing us our humanity, experts say

Technology is robbing us of our humanity, turning humans in some respects into “disembodied” minds, panelists at the three-day New... Read more

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Pope Francis waves from a balcony at Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Sunday, March 23, 2025, following weeks of hospitalization for bilateral pneumonia.

Pope Francis makes first public appearance in weeks, returns to Vatican

Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court building.

Catholic activists call for diplomatic intervention for Kenyan on death row in Vietnam

Pope Francis gives a thumbsup gesture from his window at Gemelli Hospital in Rome during his first public appearance in weeks on Sunday, March 23, 2025.

LIVE UPDATES: A ‘thumbs up’ to the faithful as Pope Francis released from hospital

Grace Center in northern Ethiopia provides extensive care and support to over 50,000 individuals yearly of all ages and abilities.

How one woman’s ‘vision from God’ led to helping thousands of lives in Ethiopia

Candles with Pope Francis’ image on them stand outside Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Feb. 21, 2025.

Pope Francis will be discharged from Gemelli Hospital on Sunday, Vatican says

Auxiliary Bishop Nicholas Hudson with the lord mayor of Westminster, Robert Rigby, at Westminster Cathedral on Thursday, March 20, 2025.

Lord mayor of Westminster in London receives papal knighthood

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy in a March 20, 2025, interview on “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” shares how his family and Catholic faith have sustained him during his extraordinarily intense first months as U.S. Secretary of Transportation.

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy reflects on first months of tenure and his faith

Genuflection before the Blessed Sacrament.

Cardinal Dolan explains why Catholics genuflect in church

A makeshift shrine with devotional candles, flowers, and images of Pope Francis appears outside Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Feb. 22, 2025.

Pope Francis to offer window blessing from Gemelli Hospital this Sunday

A previous class of St. Kateri Rosary Walk interns.

Young men reaffirm faith and friendship in Church-sponsored building project

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