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Daniel IbanezPope Leo XIV smiles during his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square on May 21, 2025. The Holy Father sent a message to participants commemorating the 500th anniversary of the movement in Zurich, Switzerland. Read More
Don Landwehrle Diane Pearce, mayor pro tem of Clovis, where the girls state track and field championships are taking place, said during a press conference Thursday that the integrity of girls sports is undermined by the presence of male competitors. Considered favorite to win triple jump. Read More
Support in the Republican party for same-sex “marriage” has dropped 14 percentage points over the past three years, according to a Gallup study released May 29. In 2021 and 2022, 55% of GOP voters who responded to a poll of whether they “think marriages between same-sex couples should or should not be recognized by the … Read morePoll: Republican backing for same-sex ‘marriage’ falls to lowest level since 2016
Over the past week, Bishop Michael Martin, OFM Conv., of Charlotte, North Carolina, has faced resistance from his own clergy and faithful — and reportedly from the Vatican — as he seeks to implement significant liturgical reforms. On May 23, the bishop released a pastoral letter detailing plans to end parish-based celebrations of the Extraordinary … Read moreLiturgical controversy unfolds in North Carolina: The latest
A peer-reviewed analysis by the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) not only confronts the widely-professed claim of abortion activists that abortion-inducing drugs are “safer than Tylenol,” but also finds no evidence of its credibility. Published Tuesday in the journal BioTech, the research, titled “The Origins and Proliferation of Unfounded Comparisons Regarding the Safety of Mifepristone,” … Read moreStudy debunks widespread claim that abortion-inducing drugs are ‘safer than Tylenol’
Courtesy photo2025 Bradley Prize recipient Jimmy Lai. Imprisoned for over four years and currently in solitary confinement, Lai, 77, faces potential life imprisonment under Beijing’s 2020 national security law. Read More
Bohumil Petrik/CNACardinal Willem Eijk. According to Cardinal Eijk, the Pontifical Academy for Life has more opportunity to talk about the Church’s teachings on the relationship between sex and gender at a time when the appeal of ‘gender theory’ appears to be now ‘less strong’ than it was in the past. Read More
Bohumil Petrik/CNACardinal Willem Eijk. According to Cardinal Eijk, the Pontifical Academy for Life has more opportunity to talk about the Church’s teachings on the relationship between sex and gender at a time when the appeal of ‘gender theory’ appears to be now ‘less strong’ than it was in the past. Read More
A Catholic church in Ohio that was built more than 100 years ago was devastated by a May 29 fire, leading a local fire department to declare the structure lost May 30. Nearly 20 local fire departments worked together to put out the fire at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Maria Stein, Ohio, … Read moreFire department declares blaze destroyed Ohio Catholic church built in 1891
A large-scale floral representation of Pope Leo XIV’s coat of arms has been completed and unveiled in the Vatican Gardens, according to Vatican News. The installation is on the slope in front of the Governor’s Palace, facing the apse of St. Peter’s Basilica. Visitors can view it annually from the dome of the basilica. The … Read moreVatican Gardens unveils Pope Leo’s floral coat of arms