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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. / Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Former U.S. President Assassination Attempt: Catholic leaders Say "Our country needs God"

Catholic ecclesial and political leaders across the U.S. offered their prayers for Donald Trump after an apparent attempted assassination of...

Cardinal Sarah Warns of Dangers of ‘Practical Atheism’ Even Within Church

More than 30 years ago, Pope St. John Paul II helped bring about the downfall of the Soviet Union, which...

Pope Francis presides over a penitential service at St. Pius V Parish in Rome on March 8, 2024. | Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Vatican: Pope Francis’ ‘white flag’ remark a call for negotiations, not Ukraine’s surrender

The Holy Father made the remarks last month in a newly released television interview with Swiss broadcaster RSI.

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President of Hungary, Champion of Many Catholics Globally, Resigns

A hero to many Catholics worldwide because of her pro-family leadership, Novák stepped down unexpectedly Feb. 10 amid protests over...

Pope Francis smiles during his general audience in St. Peter's Square Sept. 27, 2023. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA

Pope Francis in New Interview: "Church has to change" in Favor of Human Dignity

Pope Francis, speaking in a new interview published by a media outlet in his native Argentina, said the Church must...

Cardinal-elect Víctor Manuel Fernández was appointed by Pope Francis on July 1, 2023, to become the next prefect for the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. | Credit: Courtesy of Archdiocese of La Plata

Doctrine of Faith Prefect Appointee Welcomes Debate, Warns Bishops about “schism” Risks

Cardinal-elect Víctor Manuel Fernández, who is poised to take up his position as the head of the Vatican’s chief doctrinal...

Pope Francis and José María Del Corral, president of the Scholas Occurrentes youth movement, smile during a meeting with the group's volunteers in Cascais, Portugal, on Aug. 3, 2023. | Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

"Attend to the planet and poor," Pope Francis Urges College Students

In his first encounters with young people ahead of his arrival at World Youth Day later in the day, Pope...

Sister Scholastica Radel (left) and Mother Abbess Cecilia Snell of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, discuss the recent exhumation of the order's foundress, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, in an interview with EWTN News In Depth on May 30, 2023, at their abbey in Gower, Missouri. | EWTN News

"A unifying moment": Sister Wilhelmina’s Nuns Share their Story in Exclusive TV Interview

Her flashlight was dim, so when Mother Abbess Cecilia Snell first peered inside the cracked coffin lid and saw a...

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, presides over a penitential rite on June 3, 2023, two days after a Polish man stripped naked and stood on the basilica’s high altar. | Vatican Media

Penitential Rite Held after Naked Man Stands on St. Peter’s Basilica’s Main Altar

Two days after a naked man stood on the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in a shocking security breach,...

Thousands of pilgrims have lined up at the Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus in Gower, Missouri, to view the remains of Sr. Wilhelmina Lancaster.

Thousands Visiting Sister Wilhelmina's Body Over Holiday Weekend

Thousands of pilgrims are descending on a Benedictine abbey outside rural Gower, Missouri, this Memorial Day weekend to view the...

Pope Francis addresses civil authorities and other dignitaries at a former a Carmelite monastery in Budapest, Hungary, on April 28, 2023, on the first day of his three-day pilgrimage to the country. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Calls Abortion "senseless" and Criticizes Gender Theory in Hungary Speech

Pope Francis spoke out strongly against abortion and gender ideology Friday, citing both as examples of “ideological colonization” during a...

EWTN CEO Michael P. Warsaw delivers the keynote address at conclusion of “Journalism in a Post-Truth World,” a conference held March 10-11, 2023, at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., co-sponsored by EWTN News and Franciscan University of Steubenville. | Shannon Mullen/CNA

Catholic Journalists Called to be "truth tellers": EWTN Chief Executive Officer

Catholic journalists are “called to do our part to be truth tellers,” even in the face of rising intolerance toward...

UPDATE: Murder Investigation Underway in Shooting, Death of Auxiliary Bishop in USA

Bishop David G. O’Connell, known affectionately as “Bishop Dave,” was shot in the torso on Feb. 18. He was pronounced...

Pope Francis, seated in a wheelchair, greets a child during the pope's general audience at the Vatican on Jan. 25, 2023. | Vatican Media

Pope Francis Says Intestinal Problems Have "returned", also Professes, "I’m in good health

Pope Francis has revealed a recurrence of the intestinal ailment that has plagued him in recent years while also professing...

The mortal remains of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI were moved early in the morning on Jan. 2, 2023, from his former residence in the Vatican's Mater Ecclesiae Monastery to St. Peter's Basilica, where the late pope is lying in state through Jan. 4. Thousands waited in line to pay their respects. | Daniel Ibañez / EWTN

Scenes From a Day of Grief and Gratitude: 65,000 Pay their Respects to Benedict XVI

Some 65,000 pilgrims waited in line to pay their respects to Benedict XVI Monday, providing moving scenes of grief and...

Pope Francis participated in a meeting with youth at the Sacred Heart School in Awli, Bahrain, on Nov. 5, 2022. | Alexey Gotovsky/EWTN

Pope Francis to youth in Bahrain: "The Church needs you!"

Pope Francis’ historic visit to Bahrain continued Saturday with a meeting with young people at a Catholic school in the...

Pope Francis reflected on the dangers of coveting wealth and possessions during his Angelus reflection in St. Peter's Square in Rome on July 31, 2022. Vatican Media

Coveting Wealth and Possessions Blind us to the "true goods of life": Pope Francis

Covetousness is the “unbridled greed for possessions, always desiring to be rich,” the pope explained.

Bishop Jude Arogundade in Washington, D.C., on June 30, 2022 outside the Belmont House, where he attended a breakfast social with U.S. congressmen and religious freedom advocates. Shannon Mullen/CNA

Nigerian Catholic Bishop Calls Church Massacre "my own September 11th"

Bishop Jude Arogundade wants the world to know that a genocide against Christians is happening in Nigeria. TRANSLATE with x...

Pope Francis gives his Regina Caeli reflections on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 24, 2022. Vatican Media

"The Lord is not looking for perfect Christians": Pope Francis

Jesus’ merciful words to a doubting St. Thomas reminds us that the Lord does not expect us to be “perfect...

Pope Francis waves to crowd gathered for the Angelus at St. Peter's Square on March 13, 2022. Vatican Media

Pope Francis: Ask the Holy Spirit to Awaken your Desire to Pray

Noting that the Gospel reveals that Peter, James, and John had fallen asleep prior to Jesus' Transfiguration, Pope Francis urged...