By Jimmy Akin | Palm Sunday — or is it Passion Sunday? — marks the beginning of Holy Week. This day commemorates not one but two very significant events in the life of Christ. Here are 9 things you...
By Deacon Steven D. Greydanus | When the nurse practitioner said, “Your test was positive,” I almost involuntarily burst out, “Oh, thank goodness.” I had been fearing a negative result for days. I...
By Daily Mass | During this time, especially during the Lenten season, we wanted to remind you that EWTN broadcasts the daily Mass live at 8 a.m. Eastern from Our Lady of the Angels Chapel on the...
By Elizabeth McClung | During these surreal times, the strength and resiliency of Americans in every sector shines. The working mother who has adjusted to a new normal juggling working from home...
By Coronavirus Update | Updated April 4 at 11:50 a.m. Eastern. Prayer April 3: Priests and Bishops to Offer 40 Hours of Eucharistic Adoration Via Facebook Live (Mary Farrow/CNA) April 3: St.
Italians sitting down for dinner and turning on the evening news were greeted by Pope Francis. RAI state TV broadcast a recorded message from the pope, who said: “Let pray to the Lord for all those...
While Pope Francis’s Way of the Cross service on Good Friday has been transferred to the Vatican because of the coronavirus pandemic, the meditations focus, as always, on those who share the pain...
On the Friday before Holy Week, Pope Francis asked people to keep a long tradition of Catholic piety by focusing on "the suffering and sorrows of Our Lady."
In a recent interview Vatican Secretary of State Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin said the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is an opportunity to practice solidarity with others, particularly developing...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz Muth By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The number of Masses, Stations of the Cross, meditations and other devotions being livestreamed by dioceses, parishes and other groups around country...
IMAGE: CNS Photo/courtesy Tanya Granillo de Vasquez By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Before Juan Vasquez says goodbye to wife Tanya Granillo de Vasquez and 1-year-old son Robert as he goes off to...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Yves Herman, Reuters By Jonathan Luxmoore OXFORD, England (CNS) -- The Commission of Bishops' Conferences of the European Union has urged member-states to stop "capitulating to...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Lucy Nicholson, Reuters By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) -- After 11 years of U.S. economic growth, the statistics are staggering. First-time applications for unemployment benefits...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy The Walters Art Museum By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Correspondence can reveal a lot about periods of history and the letters written by popes during the Black...