Dozens of Catholics and Protestants gathered at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., on March 18 to have discussions and find common ground on challenges facing Christianity today. The third Ecumenical Forum was intended to embody “the very prayer of Christ: that they may all be one.” The event is led annually by…
The 70th annual session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) concluded March 19 in New York City amid significant disagreement over the definition of “woman.” The commission adopted a text on “women, the girl child, and HIV/AIDS” but set aside a U.S.-sponsored resolution titled “Protection of Women and Girls Through…
Renowned American actor and martial artist Chuck Norris — who often bucked Hollywood trends by speaking about his strong Christian faith and staunch pro-life views — died Thursday, March 19, at age 86 after suffering from a medical emergency while vacationing in Hawaii. Norris’ family confirmed his death Friday in a post on Instagram and…
President Donald Trump says the White House is “not looking” to enact a ceasefire in the ongoing Iranian war after Pope Leo XIV called for dialogue instead of conflict there. EWTN News White House Correspondent Owen Jensen asked the president about the Holy Father’s March 15 calls for a ceasefire in the latest Middle East…
Aid to the Church in Need says Israeli authorities blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza and West Bank Amid the regional conflict spreading across the Middle East, Israeli authorities have ceased emergency aid shipments from entering the Gaza Strip, according to Aid to the Church in Need. Citing George Akroush, director of the Development Office of…
From the pre-Lent Sundays onward, Holy Mother Church has led us into a liturgical dying. First there was the silencing of the Alleluia and the Gloria. Violet appeared on Sundays as a herald of the coming fast. Then Lent itself deepened the deprivation day by day, save for the interruption of the greater feasts. Flowers…
News reports circulated this week claiming that a Georgia woman was charged with murder for having an illegal abortion, but Georgia’s pro-life law doesn’t criminalize women who have abortions — in fact, no U.S. state does. EWTN News took a closer look at the matter and found that the woman, Alexia Moore, was arrested for…
Paul Ehrlich, the biologist whose 1968 bestseller “The Population Bomb” warned of imminent mass starvation and environmental catastrophe from overpopulation and whose predictions proved spectacularly wrong, died March 13 at age 93. His death has prompted retrospection among Catholic scholars, who condemned his legacy as a “false prophet” whose ideas fueled deadly population control policies…
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News from around the Church and the world… Pope Leo has called for a meeting of the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences to Rome in October. The topic? The controversial document Amoris laetitia, Pope Francis’s document on the family that opened the door for divorced-and-remarried Catholics to receive Communion. My (unrealistic) hope is that…
