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The Great Aunt Who Held My Family Together

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‘Family Gathering’

COMMENTARY: From a velvet chair, Great Aunt Wladyslawa reminded a crowded room of cousins and kin that family must be ‘nurtured like a plant,’ rooted in Catholic faith and shared tradition.

New Shrine Announced to Honor First US-Born African American Priest

St. Boniface Church in Quincy, Illinois, will be home to the future shrine; a photo of Father Augustus Tolton is inset.

EXCLUSIVE: On Venerable Augustus Tolton, former slave-turned-Catholic priest: ‘He carried his crosses in life quietly and heroically,’ says Bishop Thomas Paprocki.

Pope Leo XIV to Youth and Families: ‘Peace Be With You’

Pope Leo XIV greets a crowd under umbrellas during a meeting with families at Bata Stadium in Equatorial Guinea, Wednesday, April 22, 2026.

In Equatorial Guinea, the Pope told young people and families to let Christ’s light shape a future of love, responsibility, and hope.

German Cardinal Instructs Priests to Facilitate Same-Sex Couple Blessings

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Cardinal Reinhard Marx at the Vatican Press Office on Oct. 17, 2014. | Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News

Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising, has instructed priests and full-time pastoral staff to introduce the controversial handout 'Blessing Gives Strength to Love.'

Why Catholic Media Matters

Catholic media, including radio, saves souls.

COMMENTARY: Every radio broadcast, every podcast, every digital stream is a kind of procession where the Word is carried into homes, cars or earbuds.

‘Ecclesiacide,’ Then and Now

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St. George’s Cathedral in Lviv, Ukraine, was the site of a Soviet-backed ‘sobor’ in March 1946 that attempted to liquidate the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

COMMENTARY: What Stalin began in Lviv in 1946 — an attempt to liquidate a Church — persists today in Putin’s war on Ukraine.