Just a few months before he was assassinated on September 10, Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk — a conservative campus activist and an outspoken evangelical Christian — said that upon his death, he would want to be remembered for his Christian faith. “If everything completely goes away, how do you want to be remembered?”…
A group of Peruvian expats in Italy celebrated Pope Leo XIV’s 70th birthday on September 14 in true local fashion, bringing a beloved popular devotion in Chiclayo to the Pope’s front door. Every year during his time as Bishop of Chiclayo from 2015 to 2023, Pope Leo would visit the shrine of Jesús Nazareno Cautivo,…
In response to the September 9 airstrike by the Israeli air force against the Hamas leadership in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchal Diocese of Jerusalem of the Latins for Jordan, Bishop Iyad Twal, advocated for a two-state solution to achieve peace in the Middle East. Bishop Twal’s proposal aligns…
On an ordinary September morning in Salzburg, Austria, the improbable happened. Three elderly women, once cloistered nuns, packed their bags, left a retirement home, and marched back to the convent they had called home for most of their lives. They didn’t come alone. Cameras, journalists, and – in a detail that makes the whole episode…
A historic moment: for the first time since the Reformation, an English monarch took part in a Catholic funeral service for a British royal. The Pope also spoke. The Catholic funeral mass for the Duchess of Kent took place in London’s Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday. The liturgy was presided over by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the…
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich from Luxembourg sees a future for Catholicism in Europe despite profound changes. He told the weekly newspaper Die Furche that “many parishes will collapse” in the next ten years and the “system will come to an end”. However, the Church should not be fixated on the past: “We must accept that we…
While the fate of the people in Ukraine and Gaza concerns many, the civil war in Sudan concerns only a few. After a trip to Egypt in which he spoke to Sudanese refugees, Archbishop Stefan Heße of Hamburg hopes to remind politicians of the conflict in Northeast Africa. According to Archbishop Heße, refugees from the…
Pope Leo XIV discussed the conflict in Gaza, including a two-state solution, with Israel President Isaac Herzog in a private audience at the Vatican on September 4. According to a Vatican statement after the meeting, the talks focused on the political and social situation in the Middle East and the need to guarantee “a future…
Pope Francis’ environmental letter, Laudato Si’, is world-famous. His thoughts on environmental protection have now been put into practice – on papal territory, open to all. The first dedicated Vatican restaurant, a hotel open to everyone on papal grounds, home-grown wine – the plans for the Borgo Laudato Si’ ecology project, which was inaugurated by…
Bro. Francesco Ielpo, the Franciscan Custos in Jerusalem, is dismayed by the latest news of forced evictions in Gaza by Israel. In an appeal on September 3, Bro. Ielpo addressed “the conscience of those who can stop this senseless spiral of violence, so that they finally take effective measures to end this war and the…