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A few prominent Catholics are scheduled to speak at a May 17 event on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., where President Donald Trump will rededicate the United States to “one nation, under God.”
Speakers will include Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire and member of the president’s Religious Liberty Commission, and Father Mike Schmitz, a Catholic media figure and host of “The Bible in a Year” podcast, according to an announcement by the White House.
Jonathan Roumie, the Catholic actor who plays Jesus Christ on the television series “The Chosen,” will also speak at the…
Teenagers and young adults are obtaining abortion pills through telehealth at high rates, a recent report found.
The report, published in the journal JAMA Health Forum, looked at telehealth abortion requests for an online provider across three age groups (ages 15–17, 18–24, and 25–49). The report found that young adults (ages 18–24) order abortion medication at much higher rates than older adults and that more teenagers order abortion pills in states with parental notification or consent laws around abortion.
The study found a “growing demand among adolescents and young adults in legally constrained environments.”
“Young people appear to increasingly rely on online…
California will pay $4.5 million to a Catholic legal advocacy firm after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state could not continue to hide student transgender identities from parents.
In March the Supreme Court blocked California’s rules that forbid schools from informing parents if their children believed themselves to be the opposite sex.
The high court had held that parents enjoy “the right not to be shut out of participation in decisions regarding their children’s mental health.” The ruling upheld a similar order issued in December 2025 by U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez.
On March 31, the Thomas…
More than half a century after humans last traveled beyond Earth’s orbit, a new National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) project for lunar exploration has begun, marking a historic day in the United States.
“The feeling is really palpable that now America is on its way back to the moon after more than five decades of waiting and planning,” Jonathan Lunine, chief scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and the founding vice president of the Society of Catholic Scientists, said in an interview with “EWTN News Nightly.”
On April 1 at 6:35 p.m. ET, the Artemis II rocket lifted…
Builders AI Forum (BAIF), an organization bringing together some of the world’s most consequential voices in artificial intelligence (AI) with visionary leaders of the Catholic Church, has announced the appointment of a new CEO, Vincent Higgins, a seasoned technology and AI executive.
Dedicated to providing a Catholic moral framework for the use of artificial intelligence, BAIF works “to shape AI’s trajectory for humanity,” Higgins told EWTN News.
The group was founded in October 2024 by Matthew Harvey Sanders, CEO and founder of Longbeard, a Catholic AI company that built Magisterium AI. BAIF held its first major conference at the Vatican in November 2025.
EWTN News spoke with Higgins about his vision for BAIF and the rumor that Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical will be…
The Visitation to Seven Churches is a Holy Thursday devotion primarily practiced in Latin America, Italy, Poland, and the Philippines — though it is also practiced in many other places.
The devotion involves traveling to seven local churches after the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on the evening of Holy Thursday. These visits recall the final seven places Jesus went from his arrest on Holy Thursday to his death on Good Friday.
In each church, the pilgrim kneels before the altar of repose, meditates on the appropriate Scripture, and offers prayers and adoration. In this way, pilgrims seek to spiritually accompany Christ…
President Donald Trump vowed stronger military action against Iran in an address to the nation on Wednesday night amid continued calls for peace and dialogue from Pope Leo XIV and other members of the Catholic hierarchy.
“We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong,” Trump said in remarks from the White House on April 1, adding that “in the meantime, discussions are ongoing.”
Trump said the military is “on track to complete all of America’s military objectives shortly, very shortly” but said he also intends to “hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.”
“If,…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether President Donald Trump’s executive order denying citizenship to children of parents without legal immigration status complies with the Constitution.
Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office to block children from automatically receiving citizenship if their parents were residing in the country unlawfully during the birth. It immediately faced legal challenges, based on the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, which established birthright citizenship.
The amendment guarantees citizenship to any person born in the country and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” The April 1 arguments, which Trump attended,…
Denver, Colo. /(CNA) - This month, the Church celebrates Pentecost, one of the most important feast days of the year that concludes the Easter season and celebrates the beginning of the Church.