How the movie 'Top Gun: Maverick' inspired a camp for Catholic fathers and sons

The annual camping event welcomes dads and sons for a mission to grow closer, strengthen their relationships through challenges and reflections, and partake in faith-filled adventures.

EWTN News explains: Why does the Catholic Church oppose surrogacy?

The practice of using women to gestate babies for other parents is contrary to the dignity of both marriage and the human person, the Catholic Church says.

Department of Justice says government can't restrict funding based on religious status

Such restrictions on federal funding are made "without any compelling government interest," the Justice Department said in a memorandum opinion.

Pope Leo XIV says Eastern synods can remove patriarchs for serious reasons

The pope made the declaration in an apostolic letter issued motu proprio titled Mutua Concordia.

Senate GOP report finds dangerous lack of guardrails for abortion pill prescribing

Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news.

How one Lithuanian cardinal resisted Soviet persecution from a KGB prison cell

A new biography traces Cardinal Sigitas Tamkevicius' imprisonment by the KGB and his decades leading Lithuania's underground Catholic resistance to Soviet persecution.

Nepal, China warn of second flood as Church launches relief efforts

Local Catholic families, foreigners, and tourists were among those affected as Caritas launched a flood appeal.

UPDATE: Nepal, China warn of second flood as Church launches relief efforts

Caritas Nepal has begun distributing relief and operating community kitchens as authorities warn of a second flood following the deadliest natural disaster in Nepal's recorded history.

Latin Patriarchate: Emergency relief alone will not secure a future for Holy Land Christians

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has called for and investment in education, work, and special projects so Christian families can remain in the Holy Land.

Bishop prays for Norway's King Harald V, hails 'stable pillar'

Bishop Erik Varden invoked a ninth-century prayer for the dying as he commended King Harald V to God's mercy on behalf of Norwegian Catholics.