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Nearly 30 years ago, Brother Mickey McGrath, OSFS, an award-winning artist, found himself in a hospital room as his father battled colon cancer. One afternoon he came across a magazine and in it was the last interview with Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman — an African American woman who challenged the Church in the…
The monumental wooden doors at the entrance of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, one of the holiest sites for Christians of all denominations, were removed from their hinges on Feb. 19 by workers restoring the basilica’s floor and will undergo a restoration process. The work is part of the ongoing restoration of…
BRUSSELS — The European Commission has rejected a proposal to create a new European Union-wide financing mechanism for abortion access but said existing EU funds may still be used by member states to support women traveling abroad for abortion services. The decision, announced Feb. 26, comes in response to the European Citizens’ Initiative “My Voice,…
More than 60 years after the pinnacle events of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, a Catholic parish in Montgomery, Alabama, remains a “place set apart” due to its notable role in the push for racial justice in the segregated U.S. South. The City of St. Jude Parish, which sits on the outskirts of Montgomery, is…
“We’re going to Cairo.” That’s how husband and wife Father Albert and Abby Scharbach discovered that their pilgrimage in Israel had been cut short by the launch of the current Iranian conflict. The Scharbachs — Father Albert is a priest of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, having originally served as a priest…
Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen (1895–1979) was an award-winning radio and television personality who, amid fame and success, kept Christ at the center of his life. Now, he’s on the path to sainthood, with the Vatican recently announcing that his beatification — the second of three major steps in the canonization process — will be moving…
English professor Leanna Brunner devotes much of her time to educating prisoners — work that she says is “some of the most rewarding work of my entire career.” “The students are some of the most devoted, conscientious, and hardworking I have had,” Brunner told EWTN News. “Every week that I go in the prison to…
An Iraqi Catholic archbishop said his flock is frightened and communication with Tehran’s archbishop has been impossible as the Iranian conflict escalates. Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of Erbil, the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, told “EWTN News Nightly” that the situation is “quite frightening” because the Christian community is once more asking: “Will it reach…
Bishop Erik Varden continued leading the Vatican’s Lenten spiritual exercises on Feb. 26 with meditations on angels, trust in God, and St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s path from lofty ideals to what Varden described as a realism grounded in mercy. In his eighth meditation of the retreat, Varden recalled Christ’s temptation in the desert, when the…
International human rights advocates called on the Trump administration to caution Armenia’s government against veering into authoritarianism amid increased suppression of the country’s Apostolic Church. “The reality is that the government’s campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church, which has been going on for well over a year, continues unabated to this day,” said Ambassador Alberto…
