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House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks with EWTN News in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024.

Speaker Mike Johnson on EWTN News: Catholics, Pennsylvanians are key to election

Nov 5, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

“[Trump] often asks me, ‘Will the Catholics like this? Will the evangelicals like this?'” Speaker Mike Johnson said. Read more

Missionaries of Charity during a religious procession in the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Convent founded by Mother Teresa burned down in continued escalation of violence in Haiti

Nov 5, 2024

By Madalaine Elhabbal

According to a report, the devastating attack took place on the night of Oct. 26. The group of attackers was... Read more

Interior of St. George Martyr Parish in Paiporta in Valencia province, Spain, in the aftermath of recent flooding in Spain.

Torrent of mud catches parishioners by surprise during Eucharistic adoration in Spain

Nov 5, 2024

By Nicolás de Cárdenas

“We’re not dead because a neighbor came looking for her mother [and warned us] while we were adoring the Blessed... Read more

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, OFM Cap, president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), speaks at a press briefing for the Synod on Synodality at the Vatican on Oct. 24, 2024.

Cardinal raises questions on ‘hasty beatification’ plans for King Baudouin of Belgium

Nov 5, 2024

By ACI Africa

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo raised a “red flag” about the pope’s announcement in Belgium about opening the beatification cause of King... Read more

Activist Marguerite Stern poses for a picture in an artist squat in Paris on Sept. 6, 2019.

Radical feminist who desecrated Notre Dame Cathedral apologizes to Catholics

Nov 5, 2024

By Solène Tadié

In a video posted on social media, Marguerite Stern said she believes that by attacking the Catholic religion, she has... Read more

Rita Marker, a longtime advocate against assisted suicide, died Oct. 30, 2024, at the age of 83. She was the founder, with her husband, Mike, of the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, later renamed the Patients Rights Council, where Rita served as the executive director until early 2024.

Rita Marker, prolific anti-euthanasia advocate, dies at 83

Nov 5, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

Marker, a mother of seven, was appointed with her husband of six decades, Mike, to the Vatican’s Pontifical Council on... Read more

Lila Rose, founder of Live Action.

Overcoming prior hesitation, Catholic Live Action President Lila Rose votes for Trump

Nov 5, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

“I will be voting for Donald Trump,” Lila Rose, who is Catholic, said in a Nov. 2 post on X,... Read more

The Vatican on Oct. 31, 2024, inaugurated a center to welcome pilgrims and tourists before they visit St. Peter’s Basilica.

Vatican opens visitor center for St. Peter’s Basilica

Nov 5, 2024

By Hannah Brockhaus

The space, inaugurated Oct. 31, is intended to provide practical, artistic, and spiritual information to visitors of the Vatican basilica. Read more

Pope Francis speaks to the academic community at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome on Nov. 5, 2024.

Pope Francis at Gregorian University warns of ‘Coca-Cola spirituality’

Speaking at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, the pope told faculty and students to avoid superficial approaches to faith... Read more

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Britain to get its first Catholic medical school in 2026

Nov 5, 2024

By Madalaine Elhabbal

“We are proud to be London’s Catholic university and to launch the first school of medicine at a Catholic university... Read more

Consultant Surgeon Andrew Ready and his team conduct a live donor kidney transplant at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham on June 9, 2006, in Birmingham, England.

Can Catholics donate their organs? Here’s what the Church says

Nov 5, 2024

By Daniel Payne

The Catholic Church states that organ donation is an acceptable and even morally laudable practice, but it must always be... Read more

The blood of St. Januarius liquefied on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, before a Mass in Naples, Italy, where Archbishop Domenico Battaglia said that the blood of the fourth-century martyr is a powerful reminder that “love is stronger than death.”

Pope Francis includes Naples, Italy, archbishop among new cardinals

Nov 5, 2024

By Hannah Brockhaus

During his tenure in Naples, Italy, the archbishop has spoken out strongly against the violence of organized crime in the... Read more

Bishop Robert Barron is the founder of Word on Fire, a media apostolate focused on evangelization.

Bishop Robert Barron pans ‘Conclave’ movie: ‘Run away from it as fast as you can’

Nov 5, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

“If you are interested in a film about the Catholic Church that could have been written by the editorial board... Read more

Sister Clare Crockett is the subject of the documentary “All or Nothing.”

Cause for beatification of Sister Clare Crockett opened

Nov 4, 2024

By Walter Sánchez Silva

The congregation of Sister Clare Crockett, a young nun who died in 2016 during an earthquake in Ecuador, announced the... Read more

Delegates at the 2024 Synod on Synodality participate in roundtable meetings on Oct. 10, 2024, in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican.

4 German bishops praise Rome synod, criticize German Synodal Way

Nov 4, 2024

By CNA Deutsch

The statement of the four bishops said “the goals of the German Synodal Way and the global Church process of... Read more

Members of a rescue team search for victims at Klatanlo village in East Flores Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, on Nov. 4, 2024, after Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupted overnight.

Volcano destroys Indonesia Catholic convent, killing religious sister

Nov 4, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

Sister Nikolin Padjo, head of a local monastery in Boru, Wulanggitang, died in the eruption, according to a report by ... Read more

Sister Annella Zervas, OSB, in her casket, after she died at 26 of a debilitating skin disease. August, 1926.

Sister Annella Zervas’ sainthood cause could be opened this month

Nov 4, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

At their planned annual plenary meeting in Baltimore, which begins Nov. 11, the USCCB plans to discuss opening her cause... Read more

Heralds of the Gospel founder Monsignor João Scognamiglio Clá Dias.

Heralds of the Gospel founder dies at 85 

Nov 4, 2024

By Monasa Narjara

Monsignor João Scognamiglio Clá Dias, founder of the Heralds of the Gospel, died in the early morning hours of Nov.... Read more

Pope Francis on Nov. 4, 2024, named Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Jeffrey Grob as archbishop of Milwaukee.

Pope Francis appoints Chicago auxiliary bishop to lead Milwaukee Archdiocese

Nov 4, 2024

By Hannah Brockhaus

With the Nov. 4 appointment, 63-year-old Bishop Jeffrey Grob will be returning to his birth state of Wisconsin. He was... Read more

Pope Francis prays during a Mass of suffrage for deceased cardinals and bishops in St. Peter’s Basilica on Nov. 4, 2024, at the Vatican.

Pope Francis offers Mass for over 120 deceased cardinals and bishops

Nov 4, 2024

By Kristina Millare

Seven Catholic cardinals and 123 Catholic bishops died within the last 12 months. Six U.S. bishops were among the deceased... Read more