A 72nd miracle has been confirmed at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France, for an Italian woman who suffered from Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS), a severe motor neuron disease.
This Easter Vigil on April 19, parishes across the U.S. will welcome thousands of new Catholics — and this year, numbers are notably on the rise.
Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and five men, including Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí. Best known for designing Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica, Gaudí dedicated over 40 years of his life to the masterpiece — experts say his life and work speak powerfully to today’s postmodern world.
On Palm Sunday: In Nicaragua, Catholics celebrated under intense government scrutiny, as police and paramilitaries surrounded Managua’s cathedral and restricted Holy Week activities to church grounds. In Jerusalem, some 4,000 Christians celebrated despite gray skies and the ongoing war in Gaza. In Ukraine, Catholic and other religious leaders condemned a Palm Sunday attack on a Ukrainian city that killed 34 — including two children — and injured 119.
Thousands of Catholics will unite in prayer for pregnant and parenting moms in need during an April 19-27 novena inspired by St. Gianna Beretta Molla, an Italian physician, wife and mother who sacrificed her own life for the life of her child.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance will be in Rome April 18 and has meetings planned with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, his office said.
In a powerful courtroom moment just before Holy Week, an Irish Army chaplain Father Paul Murphy forgave the radicalized teenager who tried to kill him in a 2024 knife attack, telling the court: “I am in the business of forgiveness.”
In Vatican decrees, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Clergy clarified and updated norms for stipends for Mass intentions. The Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life suppressed the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a Peru-based lay movement, and three related lay movements.
An Indiana seminarian will chant the Exsultet at the Easter Vigil in St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday, April 19 — the second seminarian from the diocese to have sung it in the past three years.
A U.S. District judge issued a permanent injunction against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, siding with the Catholic Benefits Association in its legal challenge of two EEOC regulations to carry out the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act that related to abortion, IVF and surrogacy, single-sex spaces and preferred pronouns.
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