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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

Ruslan Lytvyn
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.

The Marriage Crisis Driving America’s Fertility Decline

Married women’s birth rates fell from about 87.4 per 1,000 in 2017 to 80.8 in 2020, before edging up slightly by 2023.

CDC data shows overall births falling, but the real concern is a decline in marriages — a trend with profound implications for the life of the Church.

U.S. Dioceses Observe Child Abuse Prevention Month

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Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, who posted a video message on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) about Child Abuse Prevention Month, delivers remarks at a Georgetown University forum Oct. 30, 2025.

Bishop Barry Knestout of Richmond, Virginia, urged vigilance in child protection, and Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago posted a video message about the month's observance on behalf of U.S. bishops.