Archive for February 21, 2025

Marcin Bogacki of Warsaw, Poland (far right) prays before walking through the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica with his mother and 4-year-old son on Feb. 21, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Jubilee pilgrims, Rome’s Catholics pray for Pope Francis

Pilgrims from around the world continue to travel to Rome for the 2025 Jubilee Year, and though they won’t catch... Read more

The Justice and Peace Commission of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference has called for “racial reconciliation” in response to ongoing land reform disputes between South Africa and the United States government.?w=200&h=150

By Silas Isenjia

Bishops in South Africa urge racial healing as Trump condemns country’s land policy

The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference has called for “racial reconciliation” in response to ongoing tension between South Africa and... Read more

After receiving assistance from the Catholic Charities RGV Humanitarian Respite Center, migrant families from Mexico and Central America who have been granted asylum in the United States are processed for their transport to various destinations across the United States at the Central Station Bus Terminal on June 19, 2018, in McAllen, Texas.?w=200&h=150

By Daniel Payne

Judge denies U.S. bishops’ request to block Trump funding freeze

The USCCB sued the Trump administration earlier this week over what the bishops said was an unlawful suspension of funding... Read more

The Reichstag building in Berlin, where the Bundestag meets.?w=200&h=150

By AC Wimmer

CNA explains: What’s at stake for Catholics in Germany’s 2025 election?

CNA explains what’s at stake for Catholics in Germany in the crucial 2025 election this Sunday. Read more

The outside of the Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center in St. Louis is seen on March 8, 2022.?w=200&h=150

By Kate Quiñones

Planned Parenthood resumes abortions after judge rules regulations unconstitutional

The circuit court judge wrote that the regulations were unnecessary and the licensing requirement for abortion clinics was discriminatory. Read more

Dr. Sergio Alfieri (right) and Dr. Luigi Carbone give a press conference at Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where Pope Francis is hospitalized for tests and treatment for bronchitis, on Feb. 21, 2025. Alfieri said the pope asked him to say hat he has “the mind of a a 50-year-old man.”?w=200&h=150

By Kristina Millare

Pope Francis is ‘fragile and not out of danger,’ doctors say

“The pope is not a quitter,” the Holy Father’s physician told journalists toward the end of a Friday press conference... Read more

Kobe Bryant with the United States Olympic basketball team in 2012. Bryant, who died in a plane crash in 2020, will be among those included in a proposed “National Garden of American Heroes.”?w=200&h=150

By Jonah McKeown

Trump touts American Heroes garden that would honor Catholic figures including Kobe Bryant

Statues of dozens of prominent American Catholics, including Kobe Bryant, will be among those included in a proposed “National Garden... Read more

The offices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, in Washington, D.C.?w=200&h=150

By Kate Quiñones

Air Force veteran appointed auxiliary bishop of the military archdiocese

Father Gregg Caggianelli has served on active duty and in the reserves for more than 30 years and is a... Read more

Statue of St. Peter in front of St. Peter's Basilica.?w=200&h=150

By Victoria Cardiel

British court confirms Vatican was defrauded in London real estate deal

A ruling by the High Court of England and Wales published Feb. 21 confirmed that the Vatican Secretariat of State... Read more

EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo interviews Father Tad Pacholczyk, senior ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, about the moral concerns inherent in IVF on Feb. 20, 2025. ?w=200&h=150

By Tessa Gervasini

Catholic bioethicist details ‘significant concerns’ of in vitro fertilization

Father Tad Pacholczyk, senior ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, explained why IVF conflicts with Catholic teaching. Read more

American Principles Project President Terry Schilling.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

CPAC: Social conservatives shift from playing defense to offense

Social conservatives at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference said they are relishing the opportunity to switch from a defensive... 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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