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‘My Catholic faith guides me’: HHS assistant secretary speaks on policy, saints

Adm. Brian Christine, a practicing Catholic, talked about the state of the pro-life movement and how his faith guides him. [...]

Leo XIV: “Teach us to recognize Your face in every suffering child”

“For children with incurable diseases” is the intention that Pope Leo XIV is carrying in his heart for the month of February, and is distributed through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network in collaboration with the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication. Through the “Pray with the Pope” campaign launched in January, which also includes The Pope Video Read More…

Leo XIV: “Teach us to recognize Your face in every suffering child”

Pope Leo writes letter on “Church’s interest in sport”

“‘I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly’ ( Jn 10:10). These words of Jesus help us to understand the Church’s interest in sport and the manner in which Christians approach it.” This is Pope Leo’s reflection in a new letter on the “value of sport,” released February 6, as the Winter Olympics are Read More…

Pope Leo writes letter on “Church’s interest in sport”

English archdiocese responds to a surge of conversions

There has been a rise in conversions to Catholicism in England in recent years and the Archdiocese of Southwark is ready to meet them with their brand new Ambassadors for Christ initiative. A survey from the Bible Society reports that 31% of churchgoers in 2024 identify as Catholics. This percentage is up from 23% in Read More…

English archdiocese responds to a surge of conversions

Interview with Sr. Brambilla, a woman pioneer in the Vatican

“I still consider myself very new, a sort of ‘beginner,’” Sister Simona Brambilla admits one year after her appointment as the first female prefect of the Roman Curia, in an interview with I.MEDIA. The Italian nun at the head of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life outlines the main Read More…

Interview with Sr. Brambilla, a woman pioneer in the Vatican

Where would you have stood on Good Friday?

Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to witness the Passion, death, and Resurrection of Jesus? Would you have gone along with the crowds — or stood apart from them? Would you have acted like Joseph of Arimathea, risking your life to ask for the body of Jesus? Or like John, the Read More…

Where would you have stood on Good Friday?

Science shows why some people risk their lives for others

As a teenager, Abigail Marsh was driving along a freeway when a dog darted across her path. She swerved to avoid it, sending her car spinning into oncoming traffic. The engine stalled. The car came to rest in the fast lane. In that suspended moment, she was certain she was about to die. Then a Read More…

Science shows why some people risk their lives for others

Philippines bishops call for stronger efforts to stop human trafficking

“Peace begins with dignity,” Bishop Socrates Mesiona of the Diocese of Puerta Princesa, Philippines, said in a statement released on February 1. Bishop Mesiona, chair of the Philippine Catholic bishops’ Commission on Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, warned that human trafficking continues to pose a threat to vulnerable people, including migrants, women, and Read More…

Philippines bishops call for stronger efforts to stop human trafficking

Chile moves to ban surrogacy, joining growing number of nations

Weeks after Pope Leo XIV spotlighted the Church’s position on surrogacy as a violation of human dignity, lawmakers in Chile have taken a major step toward banning the practice nationwide. On January 9, 2026, the Pope reminded the Diplomatic Corps that surrogacy turns pregnancy into a negotiable service and undermines the dignity of women and Read More…

Chile moves to ban surrogacy, joining growing number of nations