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<p>Former President Barack&nbsp;Obama said in a YouTube interview posted Feb. 14 he wants to meet&nbsp;Pope&nbsp;Leo XIV. ... read more

Jesse Jackson, whose decades of activism included work in the Civil Rights Movement, two runs for the White House, and multiple meetings with Pope John Paul II, died on Feb. 17. He was 84 years old.His family announced his passing in a statement on social media. They described him as a “servant leader” with an ... read more

The longtime activist was a fixture in U.S. politics for decades, including two presidential runs. Jesse Jackson visits the Lorraine Motel, Tuesday, April 3, 2018, in Memphis, Tennessee. Jackson was present at the motel when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. | Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images ... read more

A newly released clerical sexual abuse report in Poland's Diocese of Sosnowiec is being described by investigators as a necessary step toward accountability, while Church leaders call it a painful but essential moment in rebuilding trust after years of scandals. ... read more

Paul Tuns: Kelowna Right to Life Society has been erecting billboards along B.C.’s Highway 97 for with pro-life messages for years, but now B.C. Billboards, the company that sells the ad space, said it will no longer run any advertising related to abortion. Sophie Harms, a local pro-abortion advocate, attempted to purchase pro-abortion ... read more

The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life said Tuesday the Church needs to maintain a dialogue with universities on the issue of abortion.Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro was responding to a question about controversy over the leadership appointment of a pro-abortion professor at the University of Notre Dame — and whether Catholic universities have a responsibility ... read more

Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, speaks at a press conference at the Vatican on Feb. 17, 2026. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life said Tuesday the Church needs to maintain a dialogue with universities on the issue of abortion. Monsignor ... read more

The role of chaplains at the Olympic Games is not just for Catholics and other believers, according to a priest currently serving at the Winter Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.“My service is much more individual and open to everyone, even nonbelievers,” Father Oldřich Chocholáč, chaplain of the Czech Olympic team, told EWTN News. “It ... read more

“My service is much more individual and open to everyone, even nonbelievers,” Father Oldřich Chocholáč, chaplain of the Czech Olympic team, told EWTN News. Father Oldřich Chocholáč, chaplain of the Czech Olympic team, stands at the entrance to the Olympic Village in Milan during the 2026 Winter Games in February ... read more

Data showing most individuals in immigration detention do not have violent criminal records highlights ongoing concerns expressed by the nation's Catholic bishops over the Trump administration immigration crackdown, said David Spicer, policy and engagement director for the USCCB's Secretariat of Migration. ... read more

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, strongly criticized the U.S.-led Board of Peace, an international body chaired by President Donald Trump to oversee the governance and reconstruction of Gaza. ... read more

Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: Operation Rescue investigates and documents botched abortions, abuse and negligence, and other “wrongdoings” at American abortion mills, and in its year-end report the organization said it conducted 56 investigations in 15 states. Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, describes the process of investigating the abortion industry’s harms to women. “Many of these ... read more

The story of the Cristero War in Mexico reached theaters a little over a decade ago with “For Greater Glory,” a film titled “Cristiada” in Spanish. Alongside the film, an official book was published to delve deeper into the history of the war, a spontaneous uprising by Catholics in response to religious persecution in the ... read more

Rubén Quezada, author of the book “For Greater Glory,” released along with the film of the same name in 2012, assesses the impact of the Cristero War on religious freedom in Mexico today. Part of the official poster for the film “Cristiada”/“For Greater Glory” | Credit: Dos Corazones Films ... read more

L to R: Pope Leo, Jimmy Lai and Fulton J. Sheen EDITORIAL: This spiritual trifecta can show us how to make this year’s Lent as fruitful as possible. ... read more