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Canonisation cause for Mother Angelica’s spiritual mentor, Rhoda Wise, reaches next step

A positio for Servant of God Rhoda Wise was submitted to the Vatican – a step towards canonisation. She has

Chinese Pilgrims celebrate Chinese Martyrs in Rome. Holding the flag.

Feast of Chinese Martyrs an opportunity to pray for persecuted Christians in China

Today, July 9, the Church celebrates the feast day of Chinese Martyrs, 120 faithful Catholics assassinated for their faith between

The EWTN Summer Academy 2026 participants in Rome on July 1, 2026. | Credit: Lemmy Ogbonnaya Ijioma/EWTN Summer Academy

Training journalists to be peacemakers: EWTN Summer Academy concludes in Rome

EWTN hosted 43 young media professionals from around the world for an intensive journalistic training program June 22 to July

Priests wearing golden vestments during entrance a mixture of processing with two genuflecting and one holding up the Gospel as they enter the Church of St Pauls to be Consecrated.

After 150 years, Norway’s largest Catholic church is finally consecrated

More than 150 years after it first opened, St. Paulʼs in Bergen — now Norwayʼs largest Catholic parish, with faithful

Artwork by Caravaggio of 4 men, 3 on the right are apostles and on the left foreground is Jesus with open wound and St Thomas placing his finger into the side of Christ with a startled look on his face.

St. Thomas Apostle: more than just a doubter

A closer look at Scripture reveals that there’s a lot more to the story of the apostle who went on

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, taking at a microphone with a serious look on his face.

Cardinal Parolin: SSPX ordinations are ‘schismatic’

Cardinal Pietro Parolin said the episcopal ordinations carried out without papal mandate by the Society of St. Pius X “deeply

Sr Smerilli smiling at a microphone.

Pope Leo XIV names Sister Alessandra Smerilli to lead Vatican Dicastery and pro-prefect Cardinal Baggio to succeed Cardinal Czerny at human development office

Sister Alessandra Smerilli, FMA, is the third woman in history to be nominated to lead a Vatican dicastery. By Hannah Brockhaus

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EWTN Earns 75+ Honors, Including 30 First-Place Awards, at 2026 Catholic Media Awards

Irondale, AL (PRNewswire) — EWTN Global Catholic Network received widespread recognition at the 2026 Catholic Media Awards, earning more than 75 honors,

Monks of Norcia in procession singing Gregorian Chant

‘Chant GPT’: How Catholics are responding to AI-generated Gregorian chant

As AI encroaches on sacred music, Catholics still hold true to Gregorian chant, a historical form of sacred music that

Missionaries of Charity sisters serve food to a man at the Jail Road convent in Ranchi, India.

Church hails acquittal of Missionaries of Charity nun in India trafficking case

An Indian court has cleared an elderly nun and two others from the Missionaries of Charity after an eight-year ordeal