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Catholic Charities Boston has seen a surge in the numbers of families who need food pantry assistance, offering nearly 3 million pounds of food over the past year.  Over the past three months, Catholic Charities Boston has “seen over 2,000 new households register who have never come to our food pantries before,” said Jonathan Tetrault, ... read more

Catholic priest found guilty of sexually abusing women under his spiritual care in Texas ... read more

Florida judge rules against Planned Parenthood in false advertisement caseA circuit court judge in Florida said the state can continue legal action against Planned Parenthood over the abortion giantʼs claims that the abortion pill is safer than Tylenol.In a May 27 ruling, First Circuit Court Judge J. Scott Duncan of Santa Rosa County struck down ... read more

Spanish missionary priest Father Julio Alonso Ampuero dedicates every weekend to evangelizing in the Diocese of Lurín in South Lima, Peru. He gives retreats, hears confessions, and provides biblical formation and pastoral care to vulnerable individuals, a ministry through which he says he frequently witnesses “many miracles” in the form of conversions and renewed closeness ... read more

by Chiara Dommarco Brno – “Regimes, ideologies, and fears pass away, but truth, love, and fidelity have a strength that survives history itself,” said Father Karel Orlita in an interview with Fides about the lives of Jan Bula and Václav Drbola, the two Czech priests who will be beatified in Brno on June 6. During ... read more

Outside the packed school chapel, Benedictine College students continued to gather, kneeling on the ground to pray for Alex Lynch.On the night of May 8, the news had spread across the campus that Lynch, a Benedictine student suffering from cancer, had died.A college senior, Lynch had just had his graduation ceremony. He didn’t walk the ... read more

As the 2025-2026 United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) term came to a close, Commissioner Stephen Schneck detailed the declining religious freedom abroad and the severe violations against people of faith. “The problems not only are very, very present, but worsening,” Schneck told EWTN News. “I think the situation for religious freedom in ... read more

In the Louvre’s Richelieu wing, there is a marble statue, sculpted by François Rude in 1852, titled Jeanne d’Arc écoutant ses voix. Rude captures the young St. Joan of Arc in a moment of complete attentiveness. Her mouth is open, her head tilted, her right hand raised as she listens to “her voices”—St. Michael the ... read more

Here’s a take-home question for you. Are you at home in the world? I mean, entirely and completely at home? Are you, to put it in a boringly pedantic way, perfectly reconciled with your place of residence in a world bound by space and time, a world framed by the window of the five senses ... read more

Fr. Art Pucaro discusses how Catholic social teaching and communal living inform Augustinian spirituality. ... read more

Our small acts of caring can turn a life around, and we may never even know it. ... read more

Brendan Fraser talks about his role as General Eisenhower in the new movie "Pressure," which finds him tormented by the decision over whether to deploy troops on D-Day. ... read more

Whoever will proudly dispute and contradict will always stand outside the door. Christ, the master of humility, manifests his truth only to the humble and hides himself from the proud. — St. Vincent Ferrer ... read more

The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Joan of Arc (1412-1431), the patron saint of France. In her day, the English were allied with the Burgundians in a war against the rest of France. Joan was compelled by voices of her favorite saints to take up arms in defence of her country. Dressed in a suit of ... read more

Most abortion drug sellers are flouting a federal rule that protects women from complications from chemical abortions, according to a recent report.The May 26 report by Charlotte Lozier Institute, a think tank affiliated with Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America, examined the telehealth abortion landscape and investigated whether abortion drug providers follow U.S. Food and Drug ... read more