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Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Island Known For Migrant Crossings
4+ hour, 8+ min ago (680+ words) Pope Leo XIV will spend July 4 visiting a Mediterranean island known for migrant crossings into Europe. The Vatican announced this week that the first American leader of the Catholic Church will visit the small Italian island of Lampedusa, a gateway…...
U.S. Archbishop Will Be Beatified, One Step Away From Sainthood
1+ week, 4+ day ago (850+ words) The Vatican will allow an American archbishop, who was one of the best-known Catholic clergy of the last century, to be beatified, ending a six-year delay and placing him one step away from sainthood. The announcement about the archbishop, Fulton…...
Vatican again OKs Archbishop Fulton Sheen beatification after 2019 ceremony derailed at last minute
1+ week, 5+ day ago (409+ words) ROME'The Vatican has given the green light, again, to beatify Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the popular U.S. radio and TV preacher whose path to sainthood was derailed first by a lengthy court battle over his remains and then by concerns about how…...
American Pope Snubs U.S. on Holy Tour
1+ week, 6+ day ago (577+ words) The first American Pontiff is skipping a visit to his home country in the first year of his papacy. The Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV has not visited the United States since assuming the papacy last year, and it appears that…...
Pope Orders Trump Ally’s Face Removed From Restored Church Fresco
2+ week, 4+ day ago (416+ words) The Roman diocese headed by Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV has ordered a church in Rome to fix a fresco of an angel that was updated to bear a suspicious resemblance to one of President Donald Trump's closest allies in Europe....
Pope Leo faces crisis as a traditionalist group plans bishop consecrations without consent
2+ week, 4+ day ago (581+ words) VATICAN CITY'Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics, after a breakaway group attached to the traditional Latin Mass announced plans to consecrate new bishops without papal consent in a threatened revival of schism. The Swiss-based…...
For traditional Catholics, Charlotte Communion dispute is a battle line
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1090+ words) The edict from Charlotte's Catholic bishop came just before Christmas with a benign title: "Pastoral letter on norms for Holy Communion." Bishop Michael Martin decreed parishioners could no longer use kneelers and altar rails during the sacrament. It was an…...
Catholic Paper Slams JD Vance for Putting MAGA Over Jesus
3+ week, 3+ day ago (477+ words) A leading Catholic newspaper has made it clear that Vice President JD Vance has chosen to serve Trump rather than follow the teachings of Jesus. Following the shooting, 41-year-old Vance'who converted to Catholicism in 2019 and wrote that his conversion "demanded…...
The Troubling and Paradoxical Nature of Christian Nationalism
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (723+ words) Re "What We Get Wrong About Christian Nationalism," by Molly Worthen (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 29): As a Christian believer who has worshiped in Baptist, Presbyterian and Anglican churches " including in Durham, N.C. " I share many theological convictions with my charismatic brothers…...
Is Hope Impossible? This Philosopher Might Change Your Mind.
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (568+ words) There's a certain sect of philosophers who believe that hope, the one thing to which we all cling to provide a little bit of light at the end of the dark and dreary tunnel that is existence, might be entirely…...