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Pilgrims gather in St. Peter's Square for a Mass and canonization of 14 new saints on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. From lay catechists to...

Daniel Ibañez To date, approximately 1,250 priests have been commissioned by the Vatican; many gathered for a special Mass in Rome on Marc...

Pope Francis looks out at the crowd gathered below his hospital window at Rome's Gemelli Hospital on March 23, 2025. In a message wr...

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception choir performs at St. Mary Major in Rome. Through concerts in the E...

Credit: Vatican Media/Screenshot Pope Francis waves from a balcony at Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Sunday, March 23, 2025, following weeks...

Bertrand Langlois Frejus-Toulon Bishop Dominique Rey poses during a photo session in La Farlede, southeastern France, on October 4, 2017....

Jeffrey Bruno Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation died March 27, 2016. A reflection on a life transformed by grace — and ho...

Melinda Segal Planned Parenthood abortion facility Officials are mulling an immediate freeze of $27.5 million from the Department...

STR Nicaraguan Catholic bishop Rolando Alvarez prays at the Santo Cristo de Esquipulas church in Managua during a hunger strike on May 20,...

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

Rody Sher, editor-in-chief of ACI MENA, speaks on the second anniversary of ACI MENA in 2024 at the Catholic University in Erbil, Iraq, wher...

A 1962 file photo of author Flannery O’Connor, who was born Mach 25, 1925. COMMENTARY: Catholicism immersed her writing, but it was...

Rawpixel.com / Joorkan / Register Staff Illustration of Mary and Gabriel from Agostino Masucci’s “Annunciation” (1748) set against a backg...

Detail of ‘The Annunciation’ by George Hitchcock Mary didn’t have all the answers — just unwavering trust in God. On this feast of...

Mazur/cbcew.org.uk Father Taras Mykhalchuk attends a Feb. 24 prayer service in London’s Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family....

Pieter Jozef Verhaghen, “Abraham Drives Off Hagar and Ishmael,” 1781, Royal Fine Arts Museum, Antwerp, Belgium OLD TESTAMENT & ART:...

Clockwise from left: A painting of St. Mary Magdalene; ruins of the Magdala Synagogue and a replica of the famous Magdala stone Mag...

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

Daniel Ibáñez Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan, archbishop of Hong Kong, China ANALYSIS: The cardinal’s visit to Shanghai last month...

'Nosferatu,' the 1922 German silent horror film from F.W. Murnau, is on the Vatican's list of significant films. A silent horror fil...

EWTN Facebook Sister Clare Crockett of the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother From Hollywood to capturing hearts for Christ...

EWTN News Nightly Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schiavo and president of the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network, speaks with “EWTN Ne...

Students try out the new Minecraft Education experience during a press conference unveiling the project on March 18, 2025, at the Vatican....

Alexis Huguet Spanish Bishop Juan-José Aguirre Muñoz of Bangassou, Central African Republic, hears the confession of a Catholic CAR refuge...

Cardinal Marcello Semeraro discusses the canonization process — highlighting recent causes — with Andreas Thonhauser, EWTN Vatican bureau c...