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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

May 3, 2024

Boyle, ordained a priest in 1984, founded Homeboy Industries in 1992 while pastor of Dolores Mission, a Catholic church and school in Los Angeles.

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

May 3, 2024

World Press Freedom Day is celebrated every May 3, drawing attention to the importance of free and independent news media.

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

May 3, 2024

Father Joseph Williams, the pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish near downtown Chicago, is seen in an April 22 video shared on Instagram giving the blessing.

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

May 3, 2024

“Peace needs the testimony of clear and strong gestures on the part of all believers, but it also needs to be announced and defended by equally clear words.”

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

May 3, 2024

In an exclusive interview with EWTN News, Cardinal William Goh spoke about Pope Francis, the Synod on Synodality, being a cardinal, and the Church in Asia.

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

May 2, 2024

Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes of Oviedo, Spain, delivered a fiery response to the government’s plan to address abuses committed within the Catholic Church.

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Florida issues emergency rules to combat Biden abortion ‘misinformation’ 

May 2, 2024

The rules establish guidance for lifesaving measures and clarify that certain procedures are not considered abortion and remain legal.

Fertility rose at the end of the Depression and the end of World War II with the baby boom, to more than 3.5 births for every woman by 1960 — then plummeted immediately thereafter.

What is causing our fertility crisis? Catholic experts weigh in

May 2, 2024

The 2023 American fertility rate fell to 54.4 births per 1,000 women, which is the lowest in recorded history.

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Trump polls ahead of Biden among Catholic voters with shift in Hispanic vote

May 2, 2024

Overall, Pew has Trump leading by only 1% among the general voter population. His support among Catholics, however, shows signs of growth compared with 2020.

Pope Francis tells world’s parish priests: The Church could not go on without you

May 2, 2024

Pope Francis published a letter on Thursday addressed to all parish priests in the world with his advice for building a missionary Church.

Priest shot dead in South Africa; Catholic bishops there decry ‘pandemic’ of murder

May 2, 2024

Father Paul Tatu Mothobi, CSS, was found dead of gunshot wounds last weekend in South Africa.

Pope Francis to speak at event on Italy’s record-low birth rate

May 2, 2024

Pope Francis will address “The General State of the Birth Rate” conference on May 10 at the Conciliazione Auditorium close to the Vatican.