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As the number of religious sisters declines, Catholic women continue to focus on Church’s mission

From March 8–14, religious sisters are celebrated during the annual Catholic Sisters Week.

10,000 Austrian students petition to end mandatory fees funding abortions

Pro-life students are demonstrating against the “Repro Fund,” a program that uses mandatory student fees to finance abortions.

The religious sisters in Vatican leadership

The percentage of Vatican employees who are women grew from 19.2% to 23.4% during the first decade of the last pontificate.

Pakistani bishops demand probe into death of Christian farmworker

Pakistan’s Catholic bishops have called for a transparent investigation into the death of a 22-year-old Christian laborer whose family says shows signs of torture.

As EU acts on children and social media, experts ask: What are we protecting them for?

European governments are moving to restrict children’s access to social media — but Catholic thinkers say the more important question is what kind of human beings those children are becoming.

Spanish bishops: Abortion can never be a right

In the context of the government's effort to enshrine abortion in the consititution, Spain's bishops present the moral and scientific grounds for why abortion can never be a right.

Lebanese Christians refusing to flee war zone, fearing occupation of homeland

“Their fear was that if they did leave, that they would never be able to get their land back again,” Jesuit Father Daniel Corrou told “EWTN News Nightly.”

Pope Leo calls Maronite priest killed in bombing ‘a true shepherd’

“I am close to all the Lebanese people at this time of grave trial,” the pope said on March 11.

During Lent, a bishop invites people to practice ‘spiritual intelligence’

“Spiritual intelligence is being attuned to God,” the bishop of San Ignacio de Velasco in Bolivia, Robert Flock, explains.

Lebanon asks Vatican to help protect threatened Christian villages in the south

Caught between Hezbollah and Israeli strikes, Lebanon’s Christian villages in the South seek Vatican support.