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An ‘Undeniable Testament to Mercy’: Family of Girl Who Was Shot in Head Thanks Prayer Warriors

September 23, 2025 by Kateri

Courtesy photoSeventh-grader Sophia Forchas, 12, was shot during the Annunciation shooting on Aug. 27, 2025, in Minneapolis. She has been fighting for her life, and now her parents say prayer has brought their little girl back to them. Doctor calls Sophia Forchas’ survival a ‘miracle’ as she continues to recover from the Annunciation Catholic school … Read moreAn ‘Undeniable Testament to Mercy’: Family of Girl Who Was Shot in Head Thanks Prayer Warriors

Cardinal Koovakad Defends Catholic Dialogue With Other Religions As Global Tensions Rise

September 23, 2025 by Kateri

EWTN NewsCardinal George Jacob Koovakad speaks to EWTN News in September 2025. The cardinal’s comments come at a time of mounting global tensions, including armed conflicts and renewed geopolitical rifts. Read More

German March for Life Draws Bishops and Thousands in Peaceful Protest

September 23, 2025 by Kateri

EWTN GermanyThousands of demonstrators joined the March for Life on Cologne, Germany, on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2025. Simultaneously, Switzerland’s March for Life in Zurich drew approximately 2,000 participants. Read More

Is Santa Muerte Catholic?

September 23, 2025 by Kateri

During the early years of the Church’s mission in Mexico, there were few conversions among the natives; Christianity was the religion of the Europeans. Our Lady of Guadalupe, though, who appeared in 1531 to St. Juan Diego and requested a church to be built on the site of her apparition, was one of their own. … Read moreIs Santa Muerte Catholic?

Archbishop Coakley Urges Prayers After Oklahoma Priest Dies From Fall Through Ceiling

September 23, 2025 by Kateri

Courtesy photoFather Linh Bui celebrating Mass. In addition to the brain injury, Father Bui also suffered chest trauma, a collapsed lung, and arterial bleeding. Read More

Mothers Urge Lawmakers to Ban Assault Weapons After Minneapolis Catholic School Shooting

September 23, 2025 by Kateri

Chad Davis, CC BY 4.0Police gather at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, 2025, following a mass shooting that killed two children and injured 17 others, 14 of them children. Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moyski, 10, were killed in the attack. Read More

The Catholic Church Should Be Doing What Charlie Kirk Did

September 23, 2025 by Kateri

Maxim ElramsisyCharlie Kirk speaks July 15, 2024, at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. COMMENTARY: Of all the diabolical smears in the world, none have the sticking power of false witness, when people want to believe it. Read More

How St. Joan of Arc Won Mark Twain’s Skeptical Heart

September 23, 2025 by Kateri

Left: John Everett Millais, “Joan of Arc,” 1865. Right: A.F. Bradley, “Portrait of Mark Twain,” 1907. COMMENTARY: Though known as America’s great humorist, Twain called his novel on Joan of Arc the ‘best of all my books.’ Read More

Tiring of God

September 23, 2025 by Kateri

It refuses to end. Synoding, that is. That clever term is George Weigel’s and captures the whimsical inanity of the Bergoglian invention of synodality. In a recent essay of Mr. Weigel’s in that estimable journal First Things, he was rather irenic about the past aims of synodality. To me, he was straining a bit too … Read moreTiring of God

Understanding What the Magisterium Can and Cannot Do

September 23, 2025 by Kateri

Pope Leo XIV raised eyebrows when he prompted last week during an interview with CRUX the possibility that Church doctrine can be changed. When asked to touch upon the LGBTQ+ situation within the Church, he said: “I find it highly unlikely, certainly in the near future, that the church’s doctrine…[will change].” And with regard to … Read moreUnderstanding What the Magisterium Can and Cannot Do