4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1382+ words) On Tuesday, I published an essay arguing that Bishop Robert Barron contradicted Pope Leo XIV on empathy in the service of a MAGA culture war. By Wednesday morning, two clerics I respect had answered me on X, and their answer…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1230+ words) The pope clearly disagrees. Four months earlier, on May 11, he told a Vatican colloquium on compassion and empathy that the two “are not something additional or optional, but are a call from God to reflect his goodness in our daily…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (610+ words) The late Mark Shields once said that strong institutions seek converts and weak institutions punish heretics. Put another way, are we spending our time and energy making our communities bigger and more vibrant or smaller and more rigid? Pope Francis…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1409+ words) Cardinal Domenico Battaglia of Naples has written the preface to a new Italian book on transgender people, and Outreach, the LGBTQ Catholic ministry founded by Father James Martin, published the English translation on Thursday. The book, Persone transgender: Scienze, teologie,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1418+ words) Pope Leo XIV released his prayer intention for September on Tuesday, and it asks Catholics to pray for the care of water. The video runs under two minutes, and it landed the same day Leo opened the Season of Creation…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (754+ words) Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on Tuesday evening at a garden altar inside the papal grounds at Castel Gandolfo, opening the Season of Creation on the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. The homily was short, and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1207+ words) The Vatican has advanced Dorothy Day’s cause for inclusion among the Church’s recognized saints. On July 15, Casey Mullaney of the Dorothy Day Guild announced that the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints had approved the first portion of Day’s canonization…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (872+ words) Pope Leo XIV became the first pope to carry the statue of the Madonna del Lago across Lake Albano by boat on Saturday evening, and he used the homily before the crossing to warn that “hatred and violence bring nothing…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (376+ words) Today’s Scripture reflection is about St. Augustine, whose feast the Church keeps today, and about the two men who claim their heritage from him: the one who marched on Washington for civil rights, jobs, and justice on his feast day…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (493+ words) Letters from Leo is open to anyone who wants to be informed and inspired by our pope — and to turn that inspiration into action that leaves America and the world more just, less cold, and more alive with hope. Subscribe…...