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Summer school at Vatican Observatory offers unique opportunity for young scientists — By: Catholic News Agency

Jesuit Guy Consolmagno at the Vatican Observatory in Castel Gandolfo. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 31, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition. During the month of June, 25 students who were selected from among 120…

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Women Don’t Need More Ministerial Roles—We Need Churching! — By: Crisis Magazine

The close of the synod a few months ago created a media buzz around the discussion of increasing women’s ministerial roles within the Church hierarchy, including ordination to the diaconate. There was a worldly clamor for “inclusiveness” and to “enlarge the spiritual motherhood” of women. The question of a female diaconate was seemingly punted down…

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Catholic priest at crash site of deadly midair collision: ‘It was my duty’ to be there — By: Catholic News Agency

Father Frederick Edlefsen is pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Arlington, Virginia. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot CNA Staff, Jan 31, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA). After the tragic plane crash in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, a local priest made his way to the scene “to be present” with the grieving families. …

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Here’s how U.S. bishops have responded to Trump’s immigration orders — By: Catholic News Agency

Migrants walk alongside the railroad tracks after dismounting from the “La Bestia” train, which they rode through Mexico to reach the Mexico-U.S. border near Chihuahua, Mexico, on Sept. 27, 2025. / Credit: David Peinado Romero/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jan 30, 2025 / 18:25 pm (CNA). Since last week, Catholic bishops across the country have publicly responded…

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