Catholic News

• News from the Vatican

  • Vatican drops bid for Italian in fair trial extradition case
    The Vatican on Monday abruptly abandoned its extradition request for an Italian woman wanted on embezzlement-related charges in a case that had been set to test whether Italy considers the Vatican a...
  • Pope sees MLK’s plea to love, nonviolence as remedy to modern turmoil
    Amid a modern social and political climate laced with historic levels of vitriol and division, legendary civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. offers a message that also hits close to home...
  • Italy court weighs extradition to Vatican in fair trial case
    A Milan court on Monday begins weighing whether to extradite an Italian woman to the Vatican to face embezzlement-related charges in a case that could test whether Italy considers the Vatican a state...

• National Catholic Register

  • Pro-Life Leader Joe Scheidler Remembered as ‘Fearless Champion of the Unborn’
    Pro-life legend Joe Scheidler holds his grandchild 2020. During five decades of activism, stalwart saw prayer as the foundation of his work.
  • Communist crackdown in China is “Beyond George Orwell’s Imaginings” — and It’s Only Getting Worse
    NICOLAS ASFOURI Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sept. 8. A new human rights report “gives a terrifying view of the cruelty of Xi Jinping’s...
  • Connecticut Assisted Suicide Bill Would Not Safeguard Against Coercion, Opponents Say
    ashley rose via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Pills spill out from a prescription bottle. Various assisted suicide bills have been proposed in the state starting in 2013, though none have been passed...

• Catholic News Service

  • At national memorial, Cardinal Gregory prays for all who died of COVID-19
    WASHINGTON (CNS) — Saying the nation “reverently pauses in supplication to remember and to pray...
  • Joe Scheidler, known as ‘the godfather of pro-life activism,’ dies at 93
    CHICAGO (CNS) — Joe Scheidler, founder of the Pro-Life Action League in Chicago and one...
  • UPDATE: ‘9 Days for Life’ novena for the protection of human life set for Jan. 21-29
    WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholics across the country are invited to take part in the “9...