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Bishop Fulton Sheen is on his TV show, ‘Life Is Worth Living.’ Tens of thousands of tickets have already been sold for the upcoming beatification of the Emmy-winning American prelate. ... read more

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signs the bill for abortions up to birth, on August 10, 2026. (Image: Screen shot / X.com) Last week, Massachusetts’ Democratic governor Maura Healey signed a law removing existing restrictions on late-term abortion, thereby legalizing it to the moment of birth. The move has prompted widespread outrage, as has the ghoulish ... read more

A California couple is suing their surrogate mother for refusing to abort the child she was carrying for them, alleging that she violated her contract by not killing the baby prior to his birth.Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed have filed suit against McKenna West seeking more than $100,000 in damages, alleging she breached their surrogacy ... read more

McKenna West fled to Texas to give birth to the baby after his parents demanded he be aborted due to a heart condition. McKenna West, a surrogate mother and cardiac nurse who gave birth to a boy she named Gabriel on Aug. 12, 2026, is being sued by the contracting ... read more

The Iona Institute has found the number of Catholic baptisms in Ireland declined by 29.6% from 2015 to 2025.According to an Aug. 18 press release, the “two big drivers of the decline are falling births and rising secularism,” with birth rates accounting for about 60% of the decline. “In a way the figures are not ... read more

OMAR AL-QATTAA Jerusalem’s Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa (2nd R) and Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III (R) meet with children during a visit to Holy Family Church in Gaza City on June 22, 2026. Cardinal Pizzaballa pledged on June 22 not to abandon Gaza’s Christian community as he visited the territory with ... read more

Our Lady is processed down the street in New York City marking the Solemnity of the Assumption 2026. At the edge of what was once Five Points, an old stone church has watched New York’s immigrant story unfold for more than two centuries — and the story is still being written today. ... read more

Two recent decisions by French Bishop Jean-Marc Micas have positioned the Marian shrine at Lourdes as a microcosm for church issues ahead of the pope's visit there at the end of September. ... read more

The case heads back to a lower state court — and potentially to the U.S. Supreme Court. These statues of St. Florian, left, and St. Michael, right, will remain off the 120,000-square-foot public safety building of Quincy, Massachusetts, the state’s highest court ruled Aug. 20, 2026. | Credit: Photos courtesy ... read more

Two statues of Catholic saints will remain off of a Massachusetts city’s new public safety building for the foreseeable future now that the state’s highest court has upheld a lower court order prohibiting them from being erected.The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday that the $850,000, 10-foot-tall bronze statues of St. Michael and St. Florian ... read more

Asher Ben-Dashan Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, joined by state officials and advocates, signs legislation expanding access to abortion at the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Aug. 10, 2026. EDITORIAL: The glee with which the group of women celebrated infanticide with Gov. Maura Healey signing the Bay State’s new abortion legislation provoked a visceral ... read more

A daughter of a Bissau-Guinean imam has made her first profession as a Catholic religious sister, describing the milestone as a response to God’s call and a moment of “joy, emotion, and profound gratitude.”Aicha Settimia Canté, 27, made her temporary profession on Aug. 15, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in ... read more

Aicha Settimia Canté, 27, made her temporary profession on Aug. 15, describing the milestone as a response to God’s call and a moment of “joy, emotion, and profound gratitude.” Aicha Settimia Canté, 27, makes her temporary profession on Aug. 15, 2026, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin ... read more

Lusaka – President Hakainde Hichilema has won the August 13 elections with more than 50% of the vote. This was stated by the Christian Churches Monitoring Group , which conducted a parallel vote count alongside the official tally carried out by the Electoral Commission of Zambia. The CCMG, however, recorded irregularities in 30 constituencies.The CCMG ... read more

Tacloban City – Mission is also expressed in the Church’s ability to accompany people in the concrete issues that shape their lives, including participation in public life. This was the perspective outlined by Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines , during the 70th National Assembly of the ... read more