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“Man Can Kill the Body, But Not Love” — Pope Leo XIV’s First Easter Vigil Homily Confronts the Powers of Death
2+ hour ago (991+ words) Pope Leo XIV delivered his first Easter Vigil homily on Saturday night in St. Peter's Basilica, standing before thousands of candles lit from a single Paschal flame. The occasion " the "mother of all vigils," as the Church has called it…...
A Letter to New Catholics Entering the Church Tonight
5+ hour, 2+ min ago (1570+ words) Tonight, across the country, thousands of men and women will walk into Catholic churches, step into baptismal waters, receive the oil of chrism on their foreheads, and take the Eucharist for the first time. If you are one of them,…...
Something Strange is Happening
9+ hour, 31+ min ago (1210+ words) Each meditation explores what it means to follow Jesus more faithfully " not as partisans first, but as Christians whose consciences are shaped by the Cross. It's Holy Week, which means these are the most important reflections of the year, and…...
Trump-Vance White House Escalates Holy Week Assault Against Catholic Church
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1454+ words) On Holy Thursday afternoon, Father Juan Vargas knelt on the floor of the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility west of Chicago and washed the feet of a man in shackles. Sister Alicia Gutierrez, SH, distributed Communion. Father David…...
Bishop Barron Rewrites Pope Leo’s Anti-War Message on Ben Shapiro’s Show
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (1265+ words) Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester has spent Holy Week on a whirlwind tour of right-wing media " the Will Cain Show, the Ben Shapiro Show, the Hugh Hewitt Show " after sitting like a potted plant at the White House while Paula…...
Pope Leo XIV Condemns the “Imperialist Occupation of the World” in Holy Thursday Homilies
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (1008+ words) Pope Leo XIV delivered two homilies on Holy Thursday in Rome " one at the morning Chrism Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, one at the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper at Saint John Lateran. Together they formed a sustained theological…...
The Forgotten Hero of Christ’s Passion
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (441+ words) Each day during Lent, I'm sharing a short meditation rooted in the day's scripture readings. These reflections are my most personal writing: vulnerable, searching, and grounded in the conviction that repentance, renewal, and resolve are not abstract concepts but daily…...
Rocca Is Right: Abortion Isn’t the Top Issue for the Catholic Church Anymore
5+ day, 55+ min ago (532+ words) Rocca gets the "what" exactly right: the American bishops have undergone a genuine shift in emphasis, from the Communion wars of the Biden era to the USCCB's rare "special message" on deportation to the border bishops' letter on the morning…...
“A Grave Precedent” — Israel Bars Cardinal Pizzaballa from Palm Sunday Mass at the Holy Sepulchre
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (1399+ words) In a stunning violation of religious liberty, Israeli police blocked Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday morning....
“The Small Make History” — Pope Leo XIV Tells Monaco’s Billionaires to Reject War and Greed
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (1383+ words) Pope Leo traveled to the richest square mile on earth today and said what the wealthy rarely hear from anyone, let alone a pope: your prosperity belongs to the poor. Your smallness is a gift only if you spend it…...