Alyssa Murphy

Alyssa Murphy

Alyssa Murphy is the National Catholic Register’s Managing Editor of Digital Assets. Starting her career on the airwaves in San Francisco, she has worked in all facets of media. Alyssa enjoys writing and covering stories that inspire and uplift. Register readers may be familiar with her voice from EWTN radio’s “Morning Glory.” Alyssa currently lives in New Jersey just outside Manhattan with her husband, Andrew, and young daughter, Annabelle.

Articles by Alyssa Murphy

Annunciation School shooting survivor Sophia Forchas in a photo before the incident and then posing with neurosurgeon Dr. Walt Galicich at Gillette Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis on a very happy day as she goes home to be with her family on Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: Photo courtesy of the Forchas family

Prayers answered: Annunciation shooting survivor Sophia Forchas finally comes home

Oct 24, 2025 / 12:02 pm

Sophia Forchas is finally home after spending 57 days in the hospital with severe injuries from the deadly shooting on Aug. 27 at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis.

St. Pio of Pietrelcina, better known as Padre Pio, at the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Rome, Italy on Feb. 3, 2016. Credit: Alexey Gotovskiy/CNA

Padre Pio: 13 facts about St. Pio of Pietrelcina to know and share

Sep 23, 2025 / 04:00 am

Padre Pio is known for his deep wisdom, his stigmata, miraculous reports of his bilocation, being physically attacked by the devil, and mastering the spiritual life.

Pope Leo XIV waves at the crowds of people who braved a rainy morning for the general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Sept. 10, 2025. Credit: Vatican Media

‘Happy birthday, Pope Leo!’: EWTN viewers around the world share songs, prayers

Sep 14, 2025 / 07:09 am

Here are some of the ways millions across the globe are celebrating Pope Leo XIV’s 70th birthday.   

The Caesars Superdome is seen on Feb. 7, 2025, ahead of Super Bowl LIX, where the Kansas City Chiefs played the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans. Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images

Super Bowl commercials: Rocket Mortgage, Google’s dream job were top life-affirming ads

Feb 10, 2025 / 16:30 pm

Here are the top pro-life commercials from Super Bowl 2025.

Martin Scorsese on the set of his new series on the life of the saints. The show premieres Sunday, Nov, 17, 2024, on Fox Nation. Credit: Slobodan Pikula/Fox Nation

11 things to know about Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Saints’

Nov 16, 2024 / 10:00 am

Here are 11 things Catholics should know about the new docudrama series from Martin Scorsese called “The Saints,” premiering Nov. 17 on Fox Nation.