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2 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Pablo Kay |Justin Mclellan |Scott Hahn
President Donald Trump signed an executive order May 12 that he said would lower prescription drug costs -- an issue the U.S. bishops have flagged in recent years -- but the exact potential impact of the order was the subject of debate. Trump signed an executive order to implement what is known as the "most favored nation" policy, which he said would tie the prices of some drugs in the U.S. to lower prices abroad, such as in Europe.
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2 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Kate Scanlon |Pablo Kay |Justin Mclellan |Scott Hahn
Planned Parenthood's latest annual report shows an increase in abortions from the previous year's report, while also showing a $100 million increase in government funding amid an overall decrease in cancer screenings and prevention services. The organization's 2023-2024 annual report, titled "A Force for Hope," detailed its operations from 2022-2023, most of which followed the June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that overturned Roe v.
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2 days ago | 
angelusnews.com | Scott Hahn |Mike Cisneros |Pablo Kay
What happened in the 40 days between Easter Sunday and Ascension Thursday? It’s a reasonable question to ask about an important history in the life of the early Church. Yet Scripture is curiously vague. The Gospels give us vivid accounts of Jesus’ resurrection, and the Acts of the Apostles later gives us a spectacular account of the first Christian Pentecost.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Scott Hahn |Tom Hoffarth |Justin Mclellan
May is Mary’s month. Let’s begin it this year by looking at her place in the classic Christian confessions of faith, the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed. A creed is a historical record, and so it names names. It calls upon the witness of real historical figures — not only Jesus, but also his mother, Mary, and even the man who condemned Jesus to death, Pontius Pilate. Pilate is well known from ancient sources. His memory was preserved by his contemporaries, almost always in an unflattering light.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Tom Hoffarth |Scott Hahn |Justin Mclellan
News of the first sighting of black smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney, following the first vote in the cardinals’ conclave at the Vatican in Rome, coincided with the start of a special Mass in Los Angeles to pray for the election of a new pope at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on May 7. Archbishop José H.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Inés San Martín |Nora Miller |Heather King |Scott Hahn
In the heart of Vatican City, the usually quiet Casa Santa Marta is abuzz with workers, engineers, and Vatican officials transforming the guesthouse that was the residence of Pope Francis into a secure, secluded place of lodging that would put Fort Knox to shame.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Nora Miller |Heather King |Scott Hahn
When Lily Rivera planned her trip to Rome for the weekend of April 25, 2025, she knew that she was going to witness an influential moment in Church history. She just wasn’t expecting that moment to be the mourning and funeral Mass of Pope Francis. Rivera, a high school theology and math teacher at Cantwell-Sacred Heart of Mary High School in Montebello, planned to come to the Eternal City for the canonization of Carlo Acutis, which was originally scheduled for April 27.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Heather King |Scott Hahn
“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.” — Joan Didion, “Notes from a Native Daughter,” 1965John Steinbeck’s 1945 novel of the Central Coast, “Cannery Row,” begins like this: “Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.”It’s also a close-knit, if volatile, community.
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2 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Heather King |Tom Hoffarth |Scott Hahn
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a Jewish author from Austria who, having emigrated in 1934 due to the rise of Hitler in Germany, was living in London as a refugee. In his day, he was one of the most popular and translated writers in Europe. His 1939 novel, “Beware of Pity” (NYRB Classics, $18.95), tells the story of a twisted psychological “romance” grounded in a deeply disordered concept of compassion. It’s been called frightening, gripping, intoxicating, and Zweig’s single greatest work.
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4 weeks ago | 
angelusnews.com | Heather King |Robert Brennan |Scott Hahn
“When the images of earth cling too tightly to memory, when the call of happiness becomes too insistent, it happens that melancholy rises in man’s heart: this is the rock’s victory, this is the rock itself. The boundless grief is too heavy to bear. These are our nights of Gethsemane.” — Albert Camus, from “The Myth of Sisyphus”Many years ago, I had a thought that has stayed with me ever since: Maybe the whole reason I was born is so I can sit with Christ for an hour in the Garden at Gethsemane.
