4+ hour, 14+ min ago   (983+ words) André Escaleira Jr. / Denver Catholic, OSV News St. Margaret Mary Alacoque's relics drew pilgrims from across Northern Colorado for prayer, veneration and a historic meeting with Denver's own apostle of the Sacred Heart and a servant of God, Julia Greeley....

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (89+ words) Is it possible to reverse declining priestly vocations? ucanews.com In a recent article published in Global Catholic, Lavoisier Fernandes discussed the decline in priestly vocations I agree with him on several points For instance, the family remains the first…...

22+ hour, 57+ min ago   (541+ words) Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas intervenes in contemporary debates about artificial intelligence by reframing them as questions about the human person. At the heart of this anthropology is dignity. Magnifica Humanitas rejects the idea that human worth depends on…...

23+ hour, 23+ min ago   (266+ words) Why altar bells still ring, decades after Vatican II’s liturgical reform ucanews.com Why altar bells still ring, decades after Vatican II’s liturgical reform Though the ringing of altar bells became liturgically unnecessary once Mass moved into the vernacular after…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1553+ words) Paulina Guzik, OSV News Pope Leo XIV will make a four-day apostolic journey to France Sept. 25-28, with a program that stretches from the Élysée Palace and UNESCO in Paris to the Marian shrine of Lourdes and a final stop in…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (97+ words) Joseph You Guo Jiang SJ In 2020 Pope Francis promulgated the social encyclical Fratelli Tutti (FT). In it, he reflects on the pressing challenges of our time: war and armed conflict, global pandemics, hunger, nuclear threats, ecological collapse, and an increasingly…...

4+ day, 7+ min ago   (254+ words) An American Pope at the border ucanews.com An American Pope at the border Pope Leo XIV’s late-July remarks on his American roots and the Ceuta crisis reframe migration itself: stability without justice becomes containment, peace without dignity more than…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (241+ words) Mission reversed: a Bangladeshi nun serves Italy’s elderly sisters ucanews.com Mission reversed: a Bangladeshi nun serves Italy’s elderly sisters Sr. Shila Teresa Gomes, a Bangladeshi nun, has spent 16 years in Italy caring for elderly religious women, part of a…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (586+ words) Pope Leo XIV mourned Cardinal Júlio Duarte Langa, bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Xai-Xai in Mozambique, who died Aug. 3 while undergoing treatment in Maputo Central Hospital. The 98-year-old cardinal had remained an influential figure within the Catholic Church in…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1326+ words) Gina Christian, OSV News At an unprecedented moment in U.S. immigration policy, Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio is assuring migrants in a new pastoral letter that the Church will come to you. Drawing on Scripture, Church teaching, human rights reports,…...