by Edie Heipel, Jonah McKeown Washington D.C., Sep 26, 2022 / 18:00 pm Italy’s national elections on Sept. 25 ended with Giorgia Meloni, a Catholic mother, poised to become the country’s first female prime minister. In the snap elections — called after former prime minister Mario Draghi’s unity government collapsed due …

by Zelda Caldwell, Jonah McKeown Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 20, 2022 / 15:51 pm More than a day after Hurricane Fiona dumped 30 inches of rain on Puerto Rico before heading toward the islands of Turks and Caicos, a million people still do not have electricity, and 760,000 are without running …

by Jonah McKeown Denver Newsroom, Sep 16, 2022 / 12:00 pm Pope Francis expressed his “availability” to meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping while both men were in Kazakhstan this week, but China declined, according to a Reuters report citing an unnamed Vatican official. Pope Francis was in Nur-Sultan, the Kazakh capital …

by Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Sep 9, 2022 / 12:12 pm A new report from the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) quantifies and analyzes the many reported incidents of violence against pro-life people and entities since May and offers recommendations for government officials on how to respond. The RFI concluded that conditions …

by Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Sep 10, 2022 / 06:00 am The Catholic Church’s teaching on purgatory — the “cleansing fire” that prepares the elect for heaven — can be difficult to understand. But for one saint, the Catholic imperative to pray for the dead was made very real …

By Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Sep 8, 2022 / 10:03 am Updated Sept. 8 at 2:07 pm EST. Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, England, offered prayers for and paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who died Sept. 8 while under medical supervision at Balmoral Castle in Scotland with multiple family members by …

by Jonah McKeown Denver Newsroom, Aug 13, 2022 / 06:00 am Among the many Black men and women who have been declared saints in the Catholic Church, not one of them — yet — has been American. But that does not mean there aren’t numerous good candidates for the first …

by Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Aug 5, 2022 / 12:47 pm On the day of a controversial visit to Taiwan by U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the Chinese Embassy in France tweeted a political cartoon that is drawing criticism for its apparent anti-Catholic message. The image, created …

by Jonah McKeown Denver, Colo., Aug 5, 2022 / 17:00 pm After years of service to the elderly in the Archdiocese of Denver, the Little Sisters of the Poor announced this week their intention to withdraw from a nursing home they have operated for more than a century, citing the …

by Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Aug 3, 2022 / 14:38 pm Vin Scully, who called Los Angeles Dodgers baseball games for more than two-thirds of a century, died Tuesday at his home at the age of 94. A gifted orator and storyteller who was dubbed a “poet-philosopher of baseball,” …