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Screenshot Jesse and Ashley Ridgeway, professional YouTubers, shared a video on social media May 27, 2026, discussing their decision to possibly abort their unborn son due to a possible Down syndrome diagnosis. Parents and pro-life leaders react, calling children with Down syndrome ‘a light in the world.’ ... read more

The Globe and Mail said the “starting point for the media” in 2021 should have been searching for evidence and admitted to a “failure of journalism.” The Globe and Mail is considered Canada’s “newspaper of record” and is headquartered in Toronto. | Credit: Paul Schratz ... read more

The Globe and Mail newspaper in Canada, considered the most widely read newspaper in the country, has admitted to a “failure of journalism” in 2021 with its reporting of “mass graves” at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.In a May 30 editorial, the newspaper’s editorial board wrote that the claim that 215 childrenʼs remains had been ... read more

Spain’s long-delayed reckoning with sexual abuse within the Catholic Church entered a new phase this year with the launch of a reparations program for cases that involve accused clergy members who have died and whose alleged crimes are too old to be prosecuted. ... read more

A new poll shows President Donald Trump trailing Pope Leo XIV by 54 percentage points in net favorability. ... read more

An independent, civilian-led fact-finding body has been launched in the Philippines to uncover new evidence and details about the killings carried out during former President Rodrigo Duterteʼs drug war.Cardinal Pablo Virgilio S. David, former president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines and bishop of Kalookan, serves as adviser to the Philippine Truth and ... read more

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David is advising a new civilian-led body seeking to document the thousands killed during Rodrigo Duterteʼs anti-drug campaign. Members of the Philippine Truth and Reconciliation Commission read a press statement during the body’s launch in Manila on May 27, 2026. From left: Carlos Conde, Al Fuertes, Dr. ... read more

Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: A foreign pro-abortion activist group is interfering in a pro-life country by distributing illegal abortifacient pills to women. On April 15, Women on Waves, a pro-abortion activist group from the Netherlands, announced that it would be helping women in Malta and nearby Gozo to illegally access abortion pills through the ... read more

Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent:  On May 14, the Supreme Court of the United States permitted the on-going mail distribution of the abortion pill when it stayed a lower court decision that sided with the state of Louisiana in its challenge against the Food and Drug Administration’s 2023 rule that allowed mifepristone to be ... read more

An independent report shows that two priests who oversaw University of Notre Dame residence halls sexually abused several students during their tenure in the 1980s and 1990s, with both continuing their abuse in parish settings after leaving the school. ... read more

Pompeo Batoni, ‘Sacred Heart of Jesus,’ Church of the Gesù, Rome COMMENTARY: Beholding the Heart that loves us so greatly impels us to be witnesses of his love in the world. ... read more

In just a few days, Pope Leo XIV will land in Barcelona for the second leg of a historic trip to Spain, scheduled for June 6–12.Bishop Xabier Gómez of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, which lies west of Barcelona, has been in his own words “blessed” to be designated to accompany the Holy Father during his ... read more

The bishop of Sant Feliu de Llobregat near Barcelona said the popeʼs visit to a prison in his diocese will send a powerful message that the Churchʼs path is one of mercy. Bishop Xabier Gómez García, OP, of San Feliu de Llobregat, Spain. | Credit: Spanish Bishops’ Conference ... read more

(See the readings for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ) St. Carlo Acutis was canonized the first millennial saint last September by Pope Leo. He died young, 15 years old, after falling ill two weeks earlier. In his short life we see the power of God’s grace drawing Carlo into ... read more

Vatican City - On May 25, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization , confirmed Fr. Junior Phares Larosiliere, of the diocesan clergy of Port-au-Prince, as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Haiti, for the five-year period 2025-2030 . ... read more