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Jimmy Lai’s Family, Advocates Press for His Release Before Xi-Trump Meeting

Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, left, holds a congressional hearing with testimony from Sebastien Lai on Sept. 16, 2026, in Washington, D.C.

‘America understands, in its bones, that freedom dies with the last man willing to defend it and that the cost of not standing up for liberty is not felt until it is too late,’ Sebastien Lai said.

Archbishop Cordileone Warns of AI’s Dangers at ‘Pro-Human Assembly’

Dennis Callahan
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, whose archdiocese encompasses part of Silicon Valley, said that while he sees the possibility of great benefits to come from artificial intelligence, he has recently become concerned by humans’ apparent inability to control the technology.

Moved to Tears at the Altar: A Priest’s Experience Points to the Miracle of the Eucharist at Every Mass

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During a Sept. 14 school Mass on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Father Brent Bowman, chaplain for the local Chesterton Academy, was celebrating Mass at St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church in Hopkins, Minnesota. His reaction during the Eucharistic Prayer led countless Catholics to think he had experienced a Eucharistic miracle.

What many thought was a Eucharistic miracle is profound — and should move us at every single Mass.

Jimmy Lai, My Imprisoned Father, Taught Me That Suffering Is Not Meaningless

Anthony Wallace
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai during an interview at the Next Digital offices in Hong Kong on June 16, 2020.

COMMENTARY: The faith of my father has sustained him through years of imprisonment. Now, as I face cancer, his example is teaching me to find grace and meaning in my own suffering.

Gaza’s Only Catholic School Reopens After 3-Year Closure

Some children and teenagers from Gaza participate in a lesson on the veranda of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word house, inside the compound of the Holy Family parish in Gaza. “Engaging in studies helps to avoid thinking and talking only about the war, to not focus solely on the conflict. It is a small seed of hope,” Father Gabriel Romanelli explained to EWTN News.

Father Gabriel Romanelli told a visiting delegation he hopes the reopening of the parish school “will bring some sense of normality” to the students and their families.

German Bishop Backs Married Priests Ahead of Bishops’ Assembly

The Regensburg Cathedral and Stone Bridge are seen along the Danube River in Regensburg, Germany, in an undated photo.

Auxiliary Bishop Josef Graf of Regensburg said the Church could ordain married men of proven faith while affirming the value of celibacy and rejecting women's ordination.

Pope Calls for Respect and Love Toward Those Who Think Differently

Daniel Ibañez
Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims while riding in his popemobile at the end of his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Sept. 16, 2026. | Credit: Daniel Ibañez/EWTN News

According to Pope Leo, the message of Gaudium et Spes on “the growing interdependence of men” is especially urgent today.

The Vatican and Russia

Igor Ivanko
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Vatican envoy and Secretary for Relations with States and International Organisations of the Holy See, leads a mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary in Moscow on August 27, 2026.

COMMENTARY: Today’s world is desperate for serious moral leadership. That power of moral witness is the only real power the Holy See has in world politics.