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VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV said those who believe God created the world are called to take on a greater responsibility for caring for creation, describing it as a requirement of faith. In a video message to participants in the 10th Austrian World Summit — an annual international event on climate, sustainability, and the…
During his apostolic journey to Spain from June 6–12, Pope Leo XIV became the first pontiff in history to address the Spanish Parliament, using the occasion to urge the country’s political class to defend human dignity and protect life “from conception to its natural end.” The pontiff also joined the list of other pontiffs since…
Catholic church bells in Mexico will be rung on June 20 “as a call to build peace” and in memory of victims of violence in the country, marking the fourth anniversary of the murders of Jesuit priests Javier Campos Morales and Joaquín César Mora Salazar. In a statement released on June 14, the National Dialogue…
Church leaders in Bangladesh have welcomed Anna Minj, the countryʼs first Catholic Indigenous woman lawmaker, for using her first budget-session speech to press for the development of long-neglected Indigenous communities. On June 14, given the floor in the National Parliament during the budget session, Minj first thanked Almighty God. “Today I am representing the ethnic…
The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) in cooperation with the Caritas in Veritate Foundation organized a conference titled “Outer Space: A New Frontier of the Common Good.” Representatives from the Catholic Church and European Union, as well as diplomats, academics, and experts, gathered at the event in Brussels on June…
Russia’s “true goal” is “a war on Christianity in Ukraine,” Steven Moore, founder of the Ukraine Freedom Project, told “EWTN News Nightly” after the bombing of the 11th-century Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. “This is certainly deliberate,” Moore said, noting that Russia has destroyed 750 churches in Ukraine and killed as many as 80…
Canadaʼs government-sanctioned assisted suicide program — known as medical assistance in dying, or MAID — turns 10 years old this month, and in the decade since it was launched assisted dying has become a leading cause of death in the country. Yet Alex Schadenberg, the executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, says there is…
In Derry City, Northern Ireland, on June 13, to mark the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Our Lady of Fátima, and the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, 6,000 people took part in a Eucharistic procession that completed its route in the shadow of the city’s famous walls. The prayer event kicked off…
Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance discussed their family’s Mass attendance practices ahead of the release of Vance’s memoir, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” which is available June 16. JD Vance is the second Catholic to serve as U.S. vice president, following President Joe Biden, who held the office from…
A long-running legal dispute against a city in Ohio has received the backing of the U.S. Catholic bishops as it seeks to both assert a religious liberty claim and challenge a long-standing U.S. rule over when a lawsuit can be brought before a court. Daniel Grand filed a lawsuit against the city of University Heights,…
