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Tyler Arnold March for Life 2026 attendees carry signs that reference Scripture or popular culture. EDITORIAL: Topping the list for Trump is rolling back the Biden-era policy of wide distribution of the abortion pill. ... read more

The time he spent as a volunteer and later as the director of “Our Little Brothers” home for disadvantaged children in Latin America profoundly marked the new archbishop of New York, Ronald A. Hicks. Bishop Ronald Hicks celebrates a school graduation Mass for children in Miacatlán, Morelos state, during his ... read more

Sarah Mullally walked into St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday morning as the bishop of London. When she walked out in the afternoon as bells rang out, she was the spiritual leader of millions of Anglicans around the world. ... read more

The message of the clock "cannot be clearer," said Alexandra Bell, president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer and University of Chicago scientists who developed the first atomic weapons. ... read more

The Catholic college launched an energy program that has nearly eliminated the college’s carbon footprint while saving $600,000 a year. Mark Kretschmer, vice president for operations at Thomas Aquinas College (TAC), pictured with Thomas Kaiser, a biologist and researcher, and Lawerence Youngblood, an electrical engineer and director of Brompton Energy. ... read more

According to local media reports, armed men in pickup trucks stormed a soccer field in the small town of Loma de Flores in the afternoon of Jan. 25 and opened fire. Mexican flag | Credit: David Ramos/ACI Prensa The Mexican Bishops’ Conference (CEM, by its Spanish acronym) condemned the massacre ... read more

Father Christopher Hartley says he is not afraid as he continues to bring the Gospel to the materially and spiritually poor of southern Mexico. Father Christopher Hartley says Mass in the mountains of Guerrero in southern Mexico. He told EWTN News: “I was deeply moved at the end of this ... read more

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, warned that blogs and online commentators increasingly claim a theological authority they do not possess. ... read more

Australia’s Jan Ruff-O’Herne’s most distinguished accolade of all may lie in the future, if she is one day to share the title of “saint” with Mary MacKillop. Jan Ruff-O’Herne. | Credit: Photo courtesy of The Southern Cross/Archdiocese of Adelaide Before she died at the age of 96 in 2019 in ... read more

The Holy Father appealed to communities of nations “to be ever vigilant, so that the horror of genocide may never again befall any people.” Pope Leo XIV speaks during the general audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Jan. 28, 2026. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News ... read more

Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry In Scotland, a former Sister of Nazareth religious sister has been jailed for 15 months for abusing children and vulnerable young people. The offenses took place at Nazareth House homes in Lasswade, Midlothian, and Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. ... read more

Pope Leo XIV called for an end to all antisemitism, prejudice, oppression and persecution worldwide. ... read more

More U.S. Catholic bishops are sounding the alarm over an increasingly frayed social order both at home and abroad — while calling for a renewal of heart and a recommitment to Gospel values safeguarding God-given human dignity. ... read more

A Georgetown report reveals most religious institutes in the U.S. had no one making perpetual vows in 2025. Nuns walk in front of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., at Easter 2018. | Credit: Kristi Blokhin/Shutterstock The large majority of religious institutions in ... read more

In Scotland, a former Sister of Nazareth religious sister has been jailed for 15 months for abusing children and vulnerable young people. Nazareth Home in Kilmarnock. | Credit: Photo courtesy of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry In Scotland, a former Sister of Nazareth nun has been jailed for 15 months ... read more