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Maryland Parish Pays Off Public School Lunch Debt for Entire County

The Social Justice Ministry of St. Katharine Drexel Parish in Frederick, Maryland, attends a weekend food-bagging session for Yellow Springs Elementary School in 2026.

A Maryland Catholic parish paid off $11,800 in school lunch debt in Frederick County, expanding a ministry that has provided weekend meals to children since 2014.

Vatican Denies Marko Rupnik Has Been Acquitted

Father Marko Rupnik, in an interview with EWTN in 2020

The Holy See said the canonical criminal trial remains open and judges are continuing to review evidence in the case involving the former Jesuit accused of sexual and psychological abuse.

Pope Leo XIV Visits Sanctuary Dedicated to the Trinity Near Rome

Pope Leo XIV prays before a famous fresco of the Holy Trinity at the Sanctuary of the Most Holy Trinity in Vallepietra in Italy on July 22, 2026.

The Pontiff left Castel Gandolfo on July 22, where he was on vacation, to visit a major pilgrimage site nearby.

Ukraine and the Limits of Dialogue

Genya Savilov
Dormition Cathedral at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra is engulfed in smoke after a Russian missile strike on Kyiv on June 15, 2026.

COMMENTARY: What Russia is doing is not war. It is terrorism. Its aim is to destroy national morale. And it isn’t working.

Caritas Venezuela Adds Recovery Component to Ongoing Relief Efforts

A Caritas Venezuela volunteer distributes food supplies in the city of La Guaira.

The Catholic Church’s social services arm in the country reports that its operations are in a transitional phase, as it shifts from immediate assistance to the recovery of those who lost everything.