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During Holy Week, the archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, and the second-in-command at the U.S. State Department, Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau, both expressed their concern for the persecution the Church in Nicaragua is suffering at the hands of the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo. At the March…
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Catholic activists have complained of “persecution” and “a clear bias against Christianity” in a controversy over public prayer in the U.K. following a recent outdoor Islamic prayer service in London. When thousands of Muslims took part in a prayer service in London’s Trafalgar Square in March to mark Iftar, the meal that breaks the Ramadan fast,…
Builders AI Forum (BAIF), an organization bringing together some of the world’s most consequential voices in artificial intelligence (AI) with visionary leaders of the Catholic Church, has announced the appointment of a new CEO, Vincent Higgins, a seasoned technology and AI executive. Dedicated to providing a Catholic moral framework for the use of artificial intelligence, BAIF works “to shape AI’s trajectory for humanity,” Higgins told EWTN News. The group was founded in October 2024 by Matthew Harvey…
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Pope Leo XIV on Holy Thursday proposed Christian mission as an antidote to what he called the “imperialist occupation of the world,” saying it is now a priority to remember that “neither in the pastoral sphere nor in the social and political spheres can good come from abuse of power.” At the Chrism Mass in…
DHAKA, Bangladesh — As the Catholic Church marks Holy Thursday — known in some traditions as Maundy Thursday — a senior priest in Bangladesh says the day remains a deeply joyful and defining moment for priests, rooted in service, sacrifice, and renewal. “Maundy Thursday is a very joyful day for our priests. It is the…
War tests our moral sensibilities. It reveals what we are willing to tolerate and justify and, ultimately, how we understand truth and power. In my estimation, war shouldn’t be treated merely as some philosophical abstraction just because the consequences are not immediately available to us. To be sure, it has concrete and devastating effects, such…
Yet again at around 3 p.m. tomorrow, for the 1,993rd year in a row, the Starved Man will make His plea. He’ll feel the same collapse of his lungs, and the familiar panic will rise. He will suffocate soon. Time is running short on the salvation of mankind. So with His consciousness fading, He begins…
The Visitation to Seven Churches is a Holy Thursday devotion primarily practiced in Latin America, Italy, Poland, and the Philippines — though it is also practiced in many other places. The devotion involves traveling to seven local churches after the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on the evening of Holy Thursday. These visits recall the…
