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Paul Tuns: On July 14, Angela Costigan died at the age of 83. Costigan, originally a high school teacher, left that profession at the age of 33 to attend law school, and after she became a lawyer took on numerous cases in pursuit of obtaining legal rights for the unborn child, leading Jakki Jeffs, director ... read more

As France puts the finishing touches on preparations for Pope Leo XIVʼs visit, excitement is building across a nation that one French cardinal says is resisting secularization.Nearly 600,000 people registered for the open-air papal Mass at the Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Élysées before sign-ups closed on Sept. 16, according to Archbishop Laurent Ulrich ... read more

The French bishops’ conference is still short more than 21 million euros to cover the cost of Pope Leoʼs Sept. 25–28 visit. Meanwhile, demand for the Paris Mass forced a major expansion of the route. Volunteers set up religious banners on the Champ de Mars in Paris ahead of World ... read more

The Vatican secretary of state expressed his concerns about artificial intelligence at a conference at the Italian Parliament on Sept. 16. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, answers questions from journalists during a conference at the Vatican Apostolic Library on March 26, 2026. | Credit: Ishmael Adibuah/EWTN News ... read more

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, said nations should work together to face the challenges of artificial intelligence (AI).Parolin expressed his concerns about AI on the sidelines of the conference “Faith and Reason in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” held Sept. 16 in Rome at the Palazzo Montecitorio, the seat of the Italian ... read more

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Brendan Cahill of the Diocese of Victoria, Texas, as the seventh bishop of Joliet, Illinois.Cahill’s appointment, announced by the Vatican on Sept. 17, makes him the successor to then-bishop Ronald Hicks, who led the diocese from 2020 to 2026. The pontiff appointed Hicks as archbishop of New York in ... read more

Jambalaya is a tradition with Cajun and Creole cooks in Louisiana. This recipe, from River Run, by Jimmy and Maya Kennedy and Marialisa Calta won the 1996 Catfish Institute’s Restaurant Award, which was given to ten restaurants nationwide. It’s got a lot going for it — it’s easy, you can mak it ahead of time, ... read more

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, Bishop John Dolan of Phoenix, Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo Nevares, and other project leaders hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Diocese of Phoenix’s new education center. The Diocese of Phoenix teams up with the University of Mary to support seminarians and Catholic counselors, and more in this week’s Catholic education ... read more

Preserving Assisi is dedicated to safeguarding the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, using 27,000 photographs, 3D surveys, and immersive tours. A look at the Preserving Assisi digitization campaign by Haltadefinizione. | Credit: Haltadefinizione In honor of the 800th anniversary of the death of ... read more

In honor of the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, a new digital platform has been launched dedicated to the preservation of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy.Preserving Assisi combines ultra-high-resolution photography, 3D surveying, immersive virtual tours, and a digital archive to create an unparalleled record of the basilica ... read more

There are currently more than 100 Americans with active or open causes for canonization, according to the shrine’s ‘Saints on Their Way’ database. The second annual ‘Saints on Their Way’ event brought together those working on causes at various stages of the canonization process. ... read more

The Diocese of Phoenix opened its education center with a mental health ministry in collaboration with North Dakota’s University of Mary.Bishop John Dolan of Phoenix, Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo Nevares, and Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego took part in a Sept. 9 ribbon‑cutting ceremony marking the opening.“The people formed here will carry what they learned beyond these ... read more

The Diocese of Phoenix teams up with the University of Mary to support seminarians and Catholic counselors, and more in this week’s Catholic education news roundup. Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, Bishop John Dolan of Phoenix, Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo Nevares, and other project leaders hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Diocese ... read more

It takes a very singular, and a very dark, moment in history to be grateful for encountering the Chestertonian proposal that it is better to believe in the wrong thing than in nothing at all. Those words play out in strange and sometimes stunning moments in this day of unimaginable topsy-turvydom, when the madness of ... read more

Commenting on the new Vatican document on interreligious dialogue, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith said that dialogue does not entail downplaying one’s identity. Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández recalled that Pope St. John Paul II “emphasized the urgency of combining the strongest sense of identity with the greatest ... read more