Maria “Montse” Montserrat Alvarado, president of EWTN News (the “global Catholic network”), was speaking to the women of the Knights of Columbus, gathered in Washington, D.C., for the annual convention of the Catholic fraternal organization.
ANigerian priest was giving a weekday sermon at a suburban church in New Jersey, urging us to stop and make time for prayer and quiet contemplation. The priest knew what a countercultural thing he was insisting on.
God bless Martina Navratilova. She said an honest, courageous thing about surrogacy.
The quote, “I feel the nuns have been expecting us. They knew our last nerve would disappear at some point,” comes from a piece in the online publication Vice: “Gen Z Women Are Booking Convents Instead of Beach Houses This Summer.”
(RNS) — Faith Radio president Scott Beigle’s quest for Christian radio started with 1070AM, a former CNN news station in Tallahassee, Florida.
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV kicked off a weeklong celebration of Catholic clergy Tuesday by encouraging seminarians to be joyful and honest, offering an uplifting message after Pope Francis frequently castigated priests and decried what he called the sin of “clericalism.”
Liz Carr was accepting an award for her work on a BBC documentary of the same name. She’s an actress and a disability rights activist, who’s been using her platform to highlight the evils of legal medically assisted suicide, the topic of the documentary.
Down by the Fraunces Tavern, the city doesn’t fully resemble the New York of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Empire State Building. Some of the New Yorkers among a group of “public intellectuals” had no recollection of being at the landmark before. George Washington had his farewell address here? Or slept here? We knew both were wrong. But we should get partial credit. Washington was here, on Dec. 4, 1783, for a farewell to troops. The point of the story: Americans are so awash in history, we can’t even keep track of it.
It’s been three years since the Supreme Court ended Roe v. Wade. Can we begin to start to talk about it?
My favorite early fact about Pope Bob from Chicago comes from his talkative brother, John. Local reporters found John right away as the world met Pope Leo XIV.