“The situation has worsened” in Nicaragua following the ban on pastoral missions in the Diocese of León and the tightening of restrictions on religious events held by the Catholic Church in Managua and other cities, according to Martha Patricia Molina, a Nicaraguan researcher in exile. The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife and…
In his message for Lent 2026, Pope Leo XIV urges Catholics to listen more closely to God and others — and to “disarm” their language by fasting from words that wound. The Lenten season begins Feb. 18 with Ash Wednesday. In the message, released Feb. 13, the pope offers a simple definition of Lent as…
Context is important. We are in “Gesima” time, Pre-Lent, a time of preparation for the time of preparation for Easter. Holy Church, with the sober maternal realism of one who knows human nature, reminds us that obligations are coming due. After this “Sunday in the Fiftieth”, Quinquagesima, in three days comes Ash Wednesday and the…
The bishops of Venezuela said they seek to convey “a message of hope” to their fellow citizens amid “the anxieties and fears” the situation in the country is generating, especially after the U.S. military operation that led to the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on Jan. 3. Through a new…
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The third season of the award-winning online EWTN series “James the Less” will be released on Saturday, Feb. 14, on the EWTN YouTube channel. The first season introduced viewers to James Little, a student fresh out of college desperate for a job. James is an atheist. However, a “help wanted” sign on the church bulletin…
“Catholics of the Byzantine tradition are one of the various Churches that exist in the Christian East,” explained Bishop Manuel Nin Güell, who was recently appointed by Pope Leo XIV as the new apostolic exarch of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata Monastery. The Catholic Encyclopedia explains that “in Eastern Christendom an exarch is a bishop who…
The start of the holy season of Lent this year coincides with the beginning of the Islamic penitential observance of Ramadan on February 18, when Muslims, too, enter a season of prayer and fasting. Already, some of our shepherds are hailing it as a sign of God’s divine providence. Take for example Bishop Jose Colin…
The online Right lit up last week with the scandal of two right-wing influencers (one of whom was a Catholic who had her marriage blessed by the pope) cheating on their partners with one another. In itself the whole story was more salacious gossip than actual news, but in the context of today’s romantic wasteland,…
The Catholic Bishops of Cuba announced Thursday that they have asked Pope Leo XIV to postpone their upcoming visit to Rome due to the country’s grave situation, which is generating “so much instability and uncertainty.” The bishops had been scheduled to meet Pope Leo XIV on Feb. 20 as part of their periodic ad limina…
