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US Military Archbishop: Ceasefire must lead to real peace
1+ hour, 53+ min ago (462+ words) Senior Airman Kristin High, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In an interview with EWTN News Nightly, Timothy Broglio, Archbishop for the US Military Services, cautiously welcomed the two-week ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, while raising concerns about…...
Korea received the faith from France, now they're sending it back
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (503+ words) Shutterstock I Nghia Khanh The 20th century saw Christianity decline in much of the Western world " but not in the East. And now, centuries after European missionaries carried Christianity to Asia, evangelization is happening in reverse. On February 20, the Archdiocese of…...
Pope Leo XIV creates new diocese in Philippines
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (356+ words) Pope Leo XIV has elevated the Apostolic Vicariate of Calapan to a diocese, giving Oriental Mindoro a new place on the ecclesial map of the Philippines and naming Bishop Moises Magpantay Cuevas as its first bishop. The announcement was made…...
US Catholic bishops have great idea for 7 weeks of Easter
1+ hour, 53+ min ago (268+ words) Easter is the longest celebration of the Church -- 50 days of celebrating, longer by 10 than the 40 days of fasting in Lent. This extended time of feasting is symbolic of the triumph of life over death, of joy over sorrow. This year,…...
Why does international law only apply sometimes? : Parolin
2+ hour, 28+ min ago (265+ words) TIZIANA FABI | TIZIANA FABI The cardinal does not deny that power has always shaped international relations. What he says troubles him is the growing resignation to it. War, he notes, is increasingly presented as a necessary solution, almost inevitable, while…...
This Paschal homily highlights the joy of the Resurrection
3+ hour, 33+ min ago (251+ words) After 40 days of Lent, Christians could be tempted to be a bit grouchy, having given up a number of things and gone through all sorts of privations. Yet, those days are now over and the gloominess of Good Friday opens…...
Theologians, a martyr, and more: Aquinas Institute at 100
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (185+ words) Aquinas Institute of Theology In 1825, what was then the Center for Institutional Studies was founded by the Order of Preachers to form friars in the Dominican "Ratio Studiorum" (plan of studies). One hundred years later, what is now Aquinas Institute…...
A baptism, a new muse, and 500, 000 watching
19+ hour, 5+ min ago (316+ words) There are moments on social media that feel fleeting, and then there are those that linger, not because they are loud, but because they carry something deeper. And the recent baptism of Spanish influencer Susana Arocha is one of them....
Nuns who care for dying poor face jail time under NY law
19+ hour, 41+ min ago (518+ words) Robert Harding Video | Shutterstock For 125 years, the Dominican Sisters in Hawthorne, New York, have provided comfort and nursing care for under-resourced patients suffering from incurable cancer. But a new law has the sisters in fear of fines, court orders, potential…...
70 Remain lost at sea in Easter shipwreck
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (323+ words) SAMEER AL-DOUMY | SAMEER AL-DOUMY Hailing merchant ships in the area, Sea-Watch was able to oversee the rescue of 32 and the recovery of two bodies. They brought the survivors to Lampedusa, the Italian island that serves as a landing point for…...