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Dec 29, 2025 / 17:21 pm In a new sit-down interview with Father Mike Schmitz, who is best known for the “Bible in a Year” podcast and YouTube videos on Ascension Presents, actor Jonathan Roumie [...]

Dec 29, 2025 / 14:48 pm Pope Leo XIV on Monday explained that in order to allow God’s action in our personal lives, people must “empty” themselves and cultivate a deep inner life. The pontiff [...]

Bishop Earl Fernandes of Columbus, Ohio, carries the Blessed Sacrament during a procession at Pickaway Correctional Institution on June 28, 2024, at one of the stops on the Seton Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. Credit: Catholic Tim... [...]

A rise in executions in the United States in 2025 occurred alongside “shifting public opinion” against the death penalty, offering anti-death-penalty advocates a hopeful sign going into 2026 even amid high levels of capital punishment. [...]

Wrapping up the Jubilee Year 2025, with its theme centered on hope (Pilgrims of Hope) such that it has been called the Year of Hope, has most of us asking: What’s next? There is already one clear answer to that question. The 2,000th anniversary of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus is coming soon-ish: in Read More…

Is 2026 the Year of Something? On to the next holy year or jubilee

Graduates pose with their degrees at St. Mary’s University College in Belfast, Northern Ireland. / Credit: St. Mary’s University College EWTN News, Dec 29, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Four generations of teachers, a Nobel Prize winner, and a kicker ... [...]

“I’ve been a fan of yours since San Remo! And my secretary is your biggest fan, if not in the world, then at least in Latin America!” Receiving such spontaneous compliments from a Pontiff is no small thing … Received in a private audience on November 12, Italian singer Laura Pausini didn’t hide her surprise Read More…

Pope Leo’s first year: Encounters with celebrities

Pope Leo XIV, Pope Francis, Michael Iskander, Bishop Mark Seitz, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and Andrea Bocelli. Credit: Vatican Media; ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images; Jason Davis/Getty Images; Hakim Shammo/EWTN News; Latin Patriarch... [...]

When Pope Leo XIV released his message for the 59th World Day of Peace, he did not offer a diplomatic checklist or a spiritual abstraction. Instead, he presented peace as a lived Christian posture—unarmed, disarming, and urgently relevant in a world shaped by fear, rearmament, and technological warfare. The World Day of Peace is celebrated Read More…

World Day of Peace: 5 Takes from Pope Leo’s message

Now that TV and smartphones are everywhere, we forget how things used to be.  There was a time when reading classic books was the go-to entertainment for people from all classes and backgrounds. Don’t believe me? Check out Louis L’Amour’s fascinating memoir, Education of a Wandering Man.  L’Amour spent more than a decade wandering the Read More…

2026 goal: Bring back the lost art of self-education