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Season 2 of the EWTN web series "James the Less" premieres June 9, 2025. / Credit: EWTN YouTube channelCNA Staff, May 27, 2025 / 16:06 pm (CNA).The second season of the award-winning online EWTN series "James the Less" will be released on Monday, June 9. The first season introduced viewers to James Little, a student fresh out of college desperate for a job. James is an atheist. However, a "help wanted" sign on the church bulletin board catches his eye and entices him to interview for the position: handyman. James accepts the position at St. James the Less Church and starts to encounter Catholicism. Soon, James finds his ideals challenged by the no-nonsense pastor Father Lambert Burns and through his romantic pursuit of parishioner Anne-Marie.EWTN Director of Studio Operations Stephen Beaumont told CNA that the idea for the series came from his desire to "create a series of short videos about a character growing in virtue.""The idea for the title came from a Mass I attended...
Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, presides over a celebratory liturgy at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on the occasion of the World Day of Eastern Christians on May 25, 2025. / Credit: L'Œuvre d'OrientACI MENA, May 27, 2025 / 17:18 pm (CNA).To mark the World Day of Eastern Christians, held every year on the sixth Sunday of Easter and organized by the association L'Œuvre d'Orient, Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, presided over the Divine Liturgy in the Chaldean rite at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Sunday, May 25. The celebration brought together bishops and faithful from various backgrounds. According to Vatican News, the World Day of Eastern Christians is for prayer, encounter, and communion between Eastern and Latin Christians.On the occasion of the World Day of Eastern Christians on May 25, 2025, a Divine Liturgy was celebrated at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris presided over by Cardinal Louis Raph...
Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro is the new president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. / Credit: ACI StampaNational Catholic Register, May 27, 2025 / 19:06 pm (CNA).Pope Leo XIV has appointed as head of the Vatican's bioethics think tank Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro, the longtime deputy of its outgoing president, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, signaling a desire to continue the course set under Pope Francis.Until his appointment on Tuesday, Pegoraro, 65, had served since 2011 as chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Life, acting as a close aide to Paglia throughout his turbulent term as president, which was marked by the appointments of pro-abortion members and problematic statements regarding assisted suicide and contraception. Paglia is retiring after turning 80.Dr. Thomas Ward, who is founder of the U.K.'s National Association of Catholic Families, expressed concern about the appointment, saying he never recalled Pegoraro "disassociating himself from any of the egregious positions an...
Mildred, the Peruvian goddaughter of Pope Leo XIV, with then-Father Robert Prevost. / Credit: Courtesy of Mildred CamachoACI Prensa Staff, May 26, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA)."Godfather, we love you! Long live the pope!" Mildred exclaimed as she shared her moving testimony about Father Robert Prevost, who was a young Augustinian priest in Chulucanas, Peru, when she was born and who today leads the Church as Pope Leo XIV.Mildred, a 29-year-old Peruvian mother of two daughters and a devotee of St. John Paul II, is justifiably proud of her godfather: "I would love to tell him that I have admired him since I was little, that it's not just a recent thing," she said in an interview with EWTN Noticias, the Spanish-language broadcast edition of EWTN News.The connection between the two began decades ago, when her father, Héctor Camacho, was a teenager serving as an altar boy at the cathedral in Chulucanas in the Piura district of the country. At that time, then-Father Prevost had just arrived...
The nave of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral on Nov. 29, 2024. / Credit: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesParis, France, May 25, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).The 16th annual Vigil for Life was held in the newly restored Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on the evening of May 21 as the French Parliament continues to debate legislation that would legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia.Organized by the bishops of the Île-de-France region, the vigil has taken place annually since 2009. The 2025 edition, which gathered approximately 2,000 faithful, centered on the theme?"Builders of Love, Let Us Live in Hope!"The 2024 edition, also marked by the national conversation on end-of-life issues, carried the theme "When I Am Weak, Then I Am Strong"?(2 Cor 12:10).This year's gathering featured a series of testimonies from individuals with diverse personal and professional backgrounds, offering reflections on the ethical and human dimensions of end-of-life care and the responsibilities socie...
A priest celebrates the Traditional Latin Mass at the Church of St. Pancratius in Rome. / Credit: Thoom/ShutterstockCNA Staff, May 24, 2025 / 12:30 pm (CNA).The Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, will significantly restrict the practice of the Traditional Latin Mass, limiting it to a single chapel in what Bishop Michael Martin, OFM Conv, said is a bid to "promote the concord and unity of the Church."Martin issued a statement on Friday announcing the new policy, directing that the ancient liturgy would henceforth be celebrated in an as-yet-unnamed chapel in the town of Mooresville. Martin in his statement said the measure was meant to bring the Charlotte Diocese in line with Pope Francis' 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, which greatly restricted the Latin Mass "in defense of the unity of the body of Christ."The pope said at the time that he was saddened that the celebration of the extraordinary form was characterized by a rejection of the Second Vatican Council and its...
Priest celebrating the traditional Latin Mass at the church of St Pancratius, Rome / Thoom/ShutterstockCNA Newsroom, May 24, 2025 / 12:30 pm (CNA).The Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina will significantly restrict the practice of the Traditional Latin Mass, limiting it to a single chapel in what Bishop Michael Martin OFM Conv. said is a bid to "promote the concord and unity of the Church." Martin issued a statement on Friday announcing the new policy, directing that the ancient liturgy would henceforth be celebrated in an as-yet-unnamed chapel in the town of Mooresville. Martin in his statement said the measure was meant to bring the Charlotte diocese in line with Pope Francis' 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, which greatly restricted the Latin Mass "in defense of the unity of the Body of Christ."The pope said at the time that he was saddened that the celebration of the extraordinary form was characterized by a rejection of the Second Vatican Council and its liturgical...
null / Credit: sergign/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 23, 2025 / 15:51 pm (CNA).A federal court in New York has ordered the state to halt its enforcement of a law against a Christian photographer and blogger that would force her to express ideas on human sexuality that conflict with her religious faith.U.S. District Judge Frank Geraci wrote in his Thursday decision that a New York law guaranteeing "equal access to publicly available goods and services" in the marketplace regardless of a person's sexuality cannot be used to force a business to provide services that convey ideas about human sexuality with which the provider disagrees.Emilee Carpenter, who operates Emilee Carpenter Photography, sued the state over the law, arguing that it would force her to produce photographs and blogs for same-sex civil weddings and polyamorous engagements despite her religious belief that marriage is between one man and one woman.Violations of the law could land Carpenter up to one ...
Alasdair MacIntyre in March 2009. / Credit: Sean O'Connor/Flickr via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0)CNA Staff, May 23, 2025 / 16:30 pm (CNA).Alasdair MacIntyre, a towering figure in moral philosophy and a Catholic convert credited with reviving the discipline of virtue ethics, died on May 21 at age 96. His seminal 1981 work "After Virtue" reshaped contemporary moral and political philosophy, emphasizing virtue over utilitarian or deontological frameworks. Known by many as "the most important" modern Catholic philosopher, MacIntyre's intellectual and spiritual journey spanned atheism, Marxism, Anglicanism, and ultimately Roman Catholicism. MacIntyre's striking intellect, razor-sharp wit, and exacting teaching profoundly influenced generations of students and academics."A great light has gone out," wrote Patrick Deneen, a political philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame, in response to the news of MacIntyre's death."I have never met, nor do I ever expect to meet, a ...
"Leo XIV: Portrait of the First American Pope," written by Matthew Bunson, vice president and editorial director at EWTN News. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNACNA Staff, May 23, 2025 / 17:14 pm (CNA).EWTN officially launched the first authoritative biography of Pope Leo XIV, which is available for purchase now, during an event at the Vatican on May 22."Leo XIV: Portrait of the First American Pope," written by Matthew Bunson, vice president and editorial director at EWTN News, tells the story of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, who was elected the new Holy Father on May 8.Bunson, a Church expert and longtime Vatican journalist who has written over 50 books, said at the book launch at the Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome that Leo's diverse experience as a pastor, prior general, missionary and bishop in Peru, and as a cardinal have given him a profound understanding of the global Church.Pope Leo XIV, in his first weeks as pope, has also proven to be a unifying figure who has brought ...
