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Salesian Sisters Go Viral After Attending San Antonio Spurs Playoff Game

Salesian Sister Bernadette Mota, left, and Salesian Sister Cherilly Galley discuss their viral moment at a recent San Antonio Spurs game with 'EWTN News Nightly' on May 27, 2026.

Salesian Sisters say their viral appearance at the San Antonio Spurs game has drawn an interest in Catholicism.

Vatican Offers Pastoral Support to Promote ‘Magnifica Humanitas’

A hard copy of Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, is held by an attendee at the document’s presentation on May 26, 2026, in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican.

The pastoral aid kit includes summaries of key themes, questions for reflection, concrete cases, and prayers along with activities designed for children and young people.

What Eid Tells Us About Islam and Christianity

Francesco Guardi, “The Sacrifice of Isaac,” ca. 1750-1759, Cleveland Museum of Art

COMMENTARY: Islam is a mixture of affirming, as well as denying, those truths that compose the Truth.

Vatican Announces Global Rosary for Peace With Pope Leo XIV

A pilgrim prays the rosary at a Marian vigil in St. Peter’s Square, Rome, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. |

A worldwide Rosary, coordinated by the Dicastery for Evangelization, will be prayed at the Lourdes Grotto in the Vatican Gardens on May 30.

Pope Sets Up Commission to Tackle $290 Million Debt at Padre Pio’s Hospital

Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News
The Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, founded by St. Pio of Pietrelcina, in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. Pope Leo XIV has established a commission to oversee the hospital, which is facing a crisis of hundreds of millions of euros of debt.

The hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, where the saint known as Padre Pio lived for most of his life, has debts estimated to run between about $290 million to $350 million.