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Netanyahu Claims Unnamed Lebanese Christian Villages Sought Annexation

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 4, 2025.

Alberto Fernández, a former U.S. ambassador and contributor to EWTN News, said the prime minister's claim 'only makes sense within the context of him trying to look good to his own Israeli audience.'

Various US Bishops ‘Invite Home’ SSPX Attendees After Excommunications of Leadership

‘The Holy See has made clear that the clergy of the Society [of St. Pius X] are now to be regarded as schismatic,’ Bishop Frank Caggiano said in a statement.

Catholic bishops with Society of St. Pius X locations in their areas are forbidding Catholics from attending SSPX services and urging attendees and SSPX priests to return to the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church’s Summer of 1776

From left: Chester Harding, “Charles Carroll of Carrollton,” ca. 1828, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Pompeo Batoni, “Pope Pius VI,” 1775, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. “Old St. Joseph's Church in Philadelphia,” 1740, Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

COMMENTARY: What were some of the events and trends that preoccupied leading Catholic statesmen and churchmen in that notable summer?

‘You Don’t Have to Do to Be’: Women at GIVEN Reflect On Identity, Mission and Spiritual Motherhood

(L-R) Jennifer Cole-Shaefer, Executive Director of GIVEN, Montse Alvarado, President and COO of EWTN News, and Sister Mary Gabriel Devlin, GIVEN Board Chair, pose for a selfie with the 2026 GIVEN Forum participants.

A religious sister, a consecrated virgin and a Catholic wellness founder discuss the GIVEN Forum’s deeper invitation: to receive one’s life as a gift before giving it away in love.