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Ben Sasse on Facing Mortality: ‘Death Is Evil, but Death Doesn’t Get the Final Word’

Win McNamee
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, questions U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2022, in Washington.

The former senator now battling stage-4 cancer, who has always been a defender of Catholics, talks about death and ways ‘to redeem the time.’

School Choice Movement Seeks to Build on a Decade of Gains in 2026

Dennis MacDonald
Students participate in daily classroom prayer at St. Mary Catholic Elementary School in St. Clair, Michigan, on May 11, 2024.

With a federal tax credit launching and state programs expanding, supporters say 2026 could mark another turning point for school choice.

Georgia Martyrs Killed for Defending Marriage to Be Beatified in U.S. This October

Diocese of Savannah
Five Spanish Franciscan missionaries — Father Pedro de Corpa, Father Blas Rodríguez, Father Miguel de Añon, Brother Antonio de Badajóz, and Father Francisco de Veráscola — were martyred in 1597 in the present-day state of Georgia.

Five Spanish Franciscan friars, collectively known as the 'Georgia Martyrs,' will be beatified in Savannah, Georgia, on Oct. 31.

Former Head of Influential Anglican Seminary Received Into Catholic Church

Canon Robin Ward announced on social media Feb. 14 that he had been received into the Church at St. Michael’s Benedictine Abbey, Farnborough, by its abbot, Benedictine Dom Cuthbert Brogan. The new Catholic said in his post: ‘Has been received into the Catholic Church. Please pray for me.’

Robin Ward, a patristics scholar who formed generations of clergy at St. Stephen’s House in Oxford, says he now ‘rejoices without regret or hesitation’ in the Catholic Church.