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The World Day of Social Communications will be celebrated on May 9, 2027, the Sunday before Pentecost. A woman records Pope Leo XIV on her cellphone during the general audience on Sept. 9, 2026, in St. Peter’s Square.

The Diocese of Ghent in Belgium is contesting an individual’s request to be removed from Church records. Flags line an entryway at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg on Dec. 10, 2014. (Photo: John Thys / Getty) WorldOctober 1, 2026 Europe’s data protection rules may require the erasure of personal data from Catholic baptismal records in some cases when an individual requests it, a top European Union official said Thursday. The Oct.

‘Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s St. Thérèse’ offers beautiful insights into the Little Flower. St. Thérèse offers a road map for the Christian life. (Photo: Amy Smith) BooksOctober 1, 2026 Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s St. Thérèse offers beautiful insights into the Little Flower and Blessed Fulton Sheen’s personal devotion to her — expressed through talks and sermons Sheen gave in 1973, the centenary of St. Thérèse’s birth, in Dublin. “How are we going to live in these troubled times?

COMMENTARY: The justices are again being asked to referee who gets to worship, preach or educate without being treated as a second-class citizen. The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Gdisalvo / Shutterstock) NationOctober 1, 2026 The Supreme Court will open its new term on the first Monday of October with a docket that is shaping up to be a syllabus in religious liberty and parental rights, and that is no coincidence.

Now available at a handful of Catholic churches in the country, the innovation takes the generations-familiar collection basket and adds a tap-to-pay terminal. Parishioners pass the digital-age collection basket, using technology from a company called Woven, at Immaculate Conception Jesuit Church in New Orleans. (Photo: Courtesy of Woven) NationOctober 1, 2026 For years, Cory Howat pondered a mystery of the age: It’s easier to pay a modern vending machine than a Catholic parish.

COMMENTARY: Sixty years later, the Church continues to give thanks for the fruits of ‘Nostra Aetate’ while cultivating a fervent hope in its future promise. Pope Leo XIV greets Eric Goldstein, CEO of the UJA-Federation of New York, during a June 15, 2026, meeting with Jewish representatives at the Vatican.

The Catholic evangelist discussed America’s 250th anniversary at the Pontifical North American College on Sept. 30. Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, speaks to EWTN News at the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See in Rome on Sept. 30, 2026. (photo: Alberto Basile / EWTN News) World September 30, 2026 Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, argued that Catholic theology is deeply compatible with the founding of the United States as it marks its 250th anniversary.

A week spent following the life of Fulton Sheen left me thinking less about his fame and more about the discipline of prayer. Families pose in front of a cardboard cutout of Blessed Fulton Sheen hours before the beatification Mass at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis. (photo: Gigi Duncan/National Catholic Register) Features September 30, 2026 Growing up, I had always had a vague sense of who Fulton Sheen was.

ANALYSIS: Schuman — who lived and is now buried in Metz — was not just an extraordinary politician, but a visionary. Robert Schuman attends the first meeting of the European Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg on March 19, 1958.

Monsignor Anthony Ekpo, a Nigerian official at the Secretariat of State, spoke at a Rome conference on financial reform on Sept. 29. A flag of Vatican City State flies outside the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome on July 30, 2026. (photo: Ishmael Adibuah / EWTN News) Vatican September 30, 2026 A Vatican official called for greater scrutiny of Vatican finances after roughly 15 years of reforms.