How the Extinction of the Dinosaurs Gave Us Fruit...
Holiness and Evangelization Are Inseparable...
If you want to be a great evangelist, you have to be a saint.If you want to be a saint, you have to evangelize. This is because holiness and mission are inseparable. Holiness makes our evangelization credible, believable, and attractive. Evangelization makes our holiness bloom as we take on the mission of Christ who was sent to save the world. The two are really parts of one whole life of a disciple.
Dropping the Atomic Bomb Was Wrong. Period...
There you are, beer in hand, watching the pig turn on its spit at the parish picnic. (If there is no beer or roast pig at your parish picnic, you need to find a new parish.) The conversation lags for a moment, but because you enjoy some good verbal sparring, you know just how to get it going. You ask a question. “What about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945?” The reaction from the group is mixed...
Are All Religions Different Paths Up the Same Mountain?
Stephen Prothero, professor of religion at Boston University, doesn’t think all religions are different paths up the same mountain. In his book God Is Not One, Prothero points out, “The world’s religious rivals do converge when it comes to ethics—no religion tells you it is OK to have sex with your mother or to murder your brother—but they diverge sharply on doctrine, ritual, mythology, experience and law.” Why is there this divergence?
Here’s why your ears pop on a plane — along with some tricks to fix it...
Transfiguration Reimagined: A Flat Canvas That Reaches Heaven...
The Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord on Aug. 6 is a major feast of both the Catholic and Orthodox Churches and has often been depicted by both in art. In the West, the Transfiguration has been shown in various artistic styles. In the East, it has primarily been represented by icons. One exception is the 19th-century Russian neoclassicist painter, Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806-1858). He appears to have returned to the theme of the Transfiguration...
Where Does the Bible Talk About Mortal Sin?
The Catholic Church teaches that there are two kinds of sin: venial and mortal. While venial sin offends and wounds charity in the soul, mortal sin destroys it. Mortal sin occurs when a gravely evil act is chosen with full knowledge and freedom. The Catechism defines it as “a grave violation of God’s law” which “turns man away from God, who is his ultimate end and his beatitude”...
Why are some Catholics scared of studying the Bible themselves?
Amish Kids Almost Never Get Allergies and Scientists Finally Know Why...
The Risk of Acknowledging the Creed of Jesus Christ...
There is a prevailing mindset within the current strata of human society that every individual human being has the right to live by their own creed. Creed, from a secular human perspective, can be defined as the way a person chooses to live their life based on their own personally developed civil and moral code. The content of this personal code may involve how the person views the existence of a God...
Feast of Our Lady of the Snows: St. Mary Major Shines in the Jubilee Year of Hope...
Jesus Our Hope, and Buying an Ostrich...
It’s the feast of Our Lady of the Snows, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post. There was no Pillar Post last week because I was in Peru in dire straits, but I have returned, and I’ve got stories. First, I’ll tell you, I didn’t eat guinea pig. Eating “cuy” — it’s guinea pig — is a well-known custom in Peru, but mostly in the Andean region, not on the coast, and seemingly not in the town of Pope Leo XIV, where I was working.
Pope’s Sunday Mass at Jubilee of Youth: ‘The Lord Is Gently Knocking at the Window of Your Soul’...
Pope Leo XIV Announces Dates for 2027 World Youth Day in Seoul, South Korea — August 3-8, 2027...
This Sunday, Don’t Let Greed Twist Your Soul Into a Grotesque Hellscape...
Thousands Visit Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati’s Mortal Remains in Rome for Jubilee of Youth...
8 Ways St. John Henry Newman Is the Doctor of the Church We Need Now...
St. John Henry Newman to Be Declared Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIV...
Cardinal Pell Ordered Investigation Into ‘Potentially Illegal’ APSA Banking System...
The Fool’s Vanity: A Reflection on the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time...
Pilgrims Travel to Rome for Jubilee of Digital Missionaries...
Here in Chiclayo, everybody’s got a story about Pope Leo XIV...
A Castel Gandolfo Encounter With St. John Paul II...
Listen to Pope Leo: Take a Summer Vacation...
Warsaw Archbishop Asks Vatican to Defrock Priest Charged With the Killing of a Homeless Man...
The Prayer That Will Stop Worry From Running Your Life...
Can AI Ever Understand Purpose?
Ozzy Osbourne, Heavy Metal, and the Sound of Searching Souls...
‘This News Came as a Shock’: Ralph Martin Speaks Out on Detroit Seminary Firings...
The Chaotic, Crash-tastic Sport of Auto Polo from the 1910s...
This Sunday, Fellow Beggars, There is One Ask Our Father Never Refuses...
On the Way, On the Road, and Nuclear Winter...
The 10-Point Plan to Overcome Hyperactivity...
Learning From Trees Like St. Bernard of Clairvaux...
“He has no other teachers besides the oaks and beeches.” Words we might expect about Thoreau in fact are about one of the great Christian intellectuals of the Middle Ages. Today when a focus on trees too often betokens a turning away from the Creator of trees, we can restore trees, and the whole natural world, to their proper place in God’s plan for our life. William of St. Thierry in the earliest biography of St. Bernard of Clairvaux wrote...
‘It Was What God Wanted’: How a Mother’s Faith and Youth Group Led 2 Brothers to the Priesthood...
As teenagers growing up in northeastern Pennsylvania, brothers Michael and Robert Bollinger had a secret they shared with no one, not even each other. Each was interested in becoming a priest. “We’re German-Irish. We just don’t say anything,” said Michael, now 30 and now known as Father Mike. “You should see our house. It’s quite quiet.” The secret is out now: In May, the brothers were ordained a week apart, one for the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, and one for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Why America Built a Wall of 220 Million Trees From Canada to Texas...
Someone once asked Karl Rahner why he remained Catholic. Here’s his sharp response...
Karl Rahner, SJ (1904-1984), one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, is a favorite whipping boy for many traditionally minded Catholics. Yet Rahner was something of a split personality. Part of him was the pious Swabian who, shortly after Vatican II, sat on stage at Notre Dame telling his rosary beads while another scholar read his lecture in English for him — and, who, at the same event...
As AI advances, remember: We’re never as smart as we think we are, and we’re rarely as wise as we need to be...
If you don’t know about Waymo, the autonomous taxi service, now’s the time to learn, because it’s coming to a neighborhood near you. Maybe not now or next year. But inevitably, like death and taxes. Except it’s more fun, more fun, that is, unless you’re the one guy in 10,000 who gets stuck in a rogue AI vehicle with a software glitch that won’t stop driving and won’t let you out until its battery runs down. But hey, nothing in this life is perfect.
How Did Doctors Operate Before Anesthesia?
‘I Couldn’t Believe What I Was Seeing’: Miracle of the Oil of St. Charbel in Naples Church...
Remembering Jane Greer: A Poet Who Reanchored Us to What Matters...
On the last Saturday night of July, a group got together virtually for a poetry reading. We were fans — and some, friends — of Jane Greer. You may not know her name, but some considered Greer to be the greatest living American poet. She died in a hospital after a few weeks of health complications, having prepared spiritually in the ways one does when one’s earthly days are winding down. Greer lived in North Dakota, so most of us, scattered across the country, wouldn’t be making it to her funeral Mass...
We Tested 7 Ways to Make Bacon — One Was the Clear Winner...
Faith of Our Fathers: A Reflection on the Upcoming Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time...
We are born of the faith of our fathers, descending from a great cloud of witnesses whose faith is attested to on every page of Scripture (see Hebrews 12:1). We have been made His people, chosen for His own inheritance, as we sing in this Sunday’s Psalm. The Liturgy this week sings the praises of our fathers, recalling the defining moments in our “family history.” In the Epistle, we remember the calling of Abraham...
New Gallup Poll: Pope Leo XIV Has ‘Most Positive Image by Far’ of Major Newsmakers...
This is Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of August...
Five Years on From Port Blast, Pope Expresses Closeness With People of Beirut...
Pope Leo XIV Speaks to Massive Crowd of Youth at Jubilee in Rome: ‘Stay With Us, Lord’...
Artificial Intelligence and the Faith...
Artificial intelligence is hot right now. There are lots of news stories about it. Search engines are starting to use it in a new way. So are robots. And some speaking of a coming singularity. What do faith and reason tell us about all this? Can a robot have a soul? Is there any truth to sci-fi movies like Blade Runner? Does a point come where we should consider artificial intelligences “our neighbor” (see Luke 10:29-37)? Let’s take a look at these issues.
Florida woman gets data back after Google blocked her account following pro-life emails...
St. John Henry Newman’s Elevation as Doctor of the Church Seen as a Gift for Our Times...
I do hope Pope Leo gives us an encyclical on Artificial Intelligence, and soon...
Now is the time to end organ harvesting from “dead” donors...
The Risk of Responding to God...
Canon-Law Expert Edward Peters Is Third Faculty Member Fired by Detroit Archbishop...
10 Things You Should Know About the Psalms...
Pope Leo XIV: May Blood of 38 ‘Martyrs’ in Sunday’s Congo Church Attack Become Seed of Peace...
‘The Wizard of Oz’ as You’ve Never Seen It Before...
‘A Voice Told Me Not to Be Afraid’: Sudden ALS Healing Declared 72nd Miracle of Lourdes...
Banana Boat S‘mores Are the Ultimate Campfire Dessert...
James Hitchcock, Church Historian and Popular Author and Professor, Dies at 87...
Despite rainy weather, Catholics in a Paraguayan town dress as birds to honor their patron saint...
Ralph Martin on His Firing: ‘This News Came as a Shock’...
Shake-Up in Detroit: New Archbishop Fires Ralph Martin and Eduardo Echeverria...
Caught on the Kiss Cam: 8 Catholic Lessons From a Scandal That Went Viral...
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The Complete List of Popes
- St. Peter (32-67)
- St. Linus (67-76)
- St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88)
- St. Clement I (88-97)
- St. Evaristus (97-105)
- St. Alexander I (105-115)
- St. Sixtus I (115-125)
- St. Telesphorus (125-136)
- St. Hyginus (136-140)
- St. Pius I (140-155)
- St. Anicetus (155-166)
- St. Soter (166-175)
- St. Eleutherius (175-189)
- St. Victor I (189-199)
- St. Zephyrinus (199-217)
- St. Callistus I (217-22)
- St. Urban I (222-30)
- St. Pontian (230-35)
- St. Anterus (235-36)
- St. Fabian (236-50)
- St. Cornelius (251-53)
- St. Lucius I (253-54)
- St. Stephen I (254-257)
- St. Sixtus II (257-258)
- St. Dionysius (260-268)
- St. Felix I (269-274)
- St. Eutychian (275-283)
- St. Caius (283-296)
- St. Marcellinus (296-304)
- St. Marcellus I (308-309)
- St. Eusebius (309 or 310)
- St. Miltiades (311-14)
- St. Sylvester I (314-35)
- St. Marcus (336)
- St. Julius I (337-52)
- Liberius (352-66)
- St. Damasus I (366-84)
- St. Siricius (384-99)
- St. Anastasius I (399-401)
- St. Innocent I (401-17)
- St. Zosimus (417-18)
- St. Boniface I (418-22)
- St. Celestine I (422-32)
- St. Sixtus III (432-40)
- St. Leo I (the Great) (440-61)
- St. Hilarius (461-68)
- St. Simplicius (468-83)
- St. Felix III (II) (483-92)
- St. Gelasius I (492-96)
- Anastasius II (496-98)
- St. Symmachus (498-514)
- St. Hormisdas (514-23)
- St. John I (523-26)
- St. Felix IV (III) (526-30)
- Boniface II (530-32)
- John II (533-35)
- St. Agapetus I (535-36)
- St. Silverius (536-37)
- Vigilius (537-55)
- Pelagius I (556-61)
- John III (561-74)
- Benedict I (575-79)
- Pelagius II (579-90)
- St. Gregory I (the Great) (590-604)
- Sabinian (604-606)
- Boniface III (607)
- St. Boniface IV (608-15)
- St. Deusdedit (Adeodatus I) (615-18)
- Boniface V (619-25)
- Honorius I (625-38)
- Severinus (640)
- John IV (640-42)
- Theodore I (642-49)
- St. Martin I (649-55)
- St. Eugene I (655-57)
- St. Vitalian (657-72)
- Adeodatus (II) (672-76)
- Donus (676-78)
- St. Agatho (678-81)
- St. Leo II (682-83)
- St. Benedict II (684-85)
- John V (685-86)
- Conon (686-87)
- St. Sergius I (687-701)
- John VI (701-05)
- John VII (705-07)
- Sisinnius (708)
- Constantine (708-15)
- St. Gregory II (715-31)
- St. Gregory III (731-41)
- St. Zachary (741-52)
- Stephen II (III) (752-57)
- St. Paul I (757-67)
- Stephen III (IV) (767-72)
- Adrian I (772-95)
- St. Leo III (795-816)
- Stephen IV (V) (816-17)
- St. Paschal I (817-24)
- Eugene II (824-27)
- Valentine (827)
- Gregory IV (827-44)
- Sergius II (844-47)
- St. Leo IV (847-55)
- Benedict III (855-58)
- St. Nicholas I (the Great) (858-67)
- Adrian II (867-72)
- John VIII (872-82)
- Marinus I (882-84)
- St. Adrian III (884-85)
- Stephen V (VI) (885-91)
- Formosus (891-96)
- Boniface VI (896)
- Stephen VI (VII) (896-97)
- Romanus (897)
- Theodore II (897)
- John IX (898-900)
- Benedict IV (900-03)
- Leo V (903)
- Sergius III (904-11)
- Anastasius III (911-13)
- Lando (913-14)
- John X (914-28)
- Leo VI (928)
- Stephen VIII (929-31)
- John XI (931-35)
- Leo VII (936-39)
- Stephen IX (939-42)
- Marinus II (942-46)
- Agapetus II (946-55)
- John XII (955-63)
- Leo VIII (963-64)
- Benedict V (964)
- John XIII (965-72)
- Benedict VI (973-74)
- Benedict VII (974-83)
- John XIV (983-84)
- John XV (985-96)
- Gregory V (996-99)
- Sylvester II (999-1003)
- John XVII (1003)
- John XVIII (1003-09)
- Sergius IV (1009-12)
- Benedict VIII (1012-24)
- John XIX (1024-32)
- Benedict IX (1032-45)
- Sylvester III (1045)
- Benedict IX (1045)
- Gregory VI (1045-46)
- Clement II (1046-47)
- Benedict IX (1047-48)
- Damasus II (1048)
- St. Leo IX (1049-54)
- Victor II (1055-57)
- Stephen X (1057-58)
- Nicholas II (1058-61)
- Alexander II (1061-73)
- St. Gregory VII (1073-85)
- Blessed Victor III (1086-87)
- Blessed Urban II (1088-99)
- Paschal II (1099-1118)
- Gelasius II (1118-19)
- Callistus II (1119-24)
- Honorius II (1124-30)
- Innocent II (1130-43)
- Celestine II (1143-44)
- Lucius II (1144-45)
- Blessed Eugene III (1145-53)
- Anastasius IV (1153-54)
- Adrian IV (1154-59)
- Alexander III (1159-81)
- Lucius III (1181-85)
- Urban III (1185-87)
- Gregory VIII (1187)
- Clement III (1187-91)
- Celestine III (1191-98)
- Innocent III (1198-1216)
- Honorius III (1216-27)
- Gregory IX (1227-41)
- Celestine IV (1241)
- Innocent IV (1243-54)
- Alexander IV (1254-61)
- Urban IV (1261-64)
- Clement IV (1265-68)
- Blessed Gregory X (1271-76)
- Blessed Innocent V (1276)
- Adrian V (1276)
- John XXI (1276-77)
- Nicholas III (1277-80)
- Martin IV (1281-85)
- Honorius IV (1285-87)
- Nicholas IV (1288-92)
- St. Celestine V (1294)
- Boniface VIII (1294-1303)
- Blessed Benedict XI (1303-04)
- Clement V (1305-14)
- John XXII (1316-34)
- Benedict XII (1334-42)
- Clement VI (1342-52)
- Innocent VI (1352-62)
- Blessed Urban V (1362-70)
- Gregory XI (1370-78)
- Urban VI (1378-89)
- Boniface IX (1389-1404)
- Innocent VII (1404-06)
- Gregory XII (1406-15)
- Martin V (1417-31)
- Eugene IV (1431-47)
- Nicholas V (1447-55)
- Callistus III (1455-58)
- Pius II (1458-64)
- Paul II (1464-71)
- Sixtus IV (1471-84)
- Innocent VIII (1484-92)
- Alexander VI (1492-1503)
- Pius III (1503)
- Julius II (1503-13)
- Leo X (1513-21)
- Adrian VI (1522-23)
- Clement VII (1523-34)
- Paul III (1534-49)
- Julius III (1550-55)
- Marcellus II (1555)
- Paul IV (1555-59)
- Pius IV (1559-65)
- St. Pius V (1566-72)
- Gregory XIII (1572-85)
- Sixtus V (1585-90)
- Urban VII (1590)
- Gregory XIV (1590-91)
- Innocent IX (1591)
- Clement VIII (1592-1605)
- Leo XI (1605)
- Paul V (1605-21)
- Gregory XV (1621-23)
- Urban VIII (1623-44)
- Innocent X (1644-55)
- Alexander VII (1655-67)
- Clement IX (1667-69)
- Clement X (1670-76)
- Blessed Innocent XI (1676-89)
- Alexander VIII (1689-91)
- Innocent XII (1691-1700)
- Clement XI (1700-21)
- Innocent XIII (1721-24)
- Benedict XIII (1724-30)
- Clement XII (1730-40)
- Benedict XIV (1740-58)
- Clement XIII (1758-69)
- Clement XIV (1769-74)
- Pius VI (1775-99)
- Pius VII (1800-23)
- Leo XII (1823-29)
- Pius VIII (1829-30)
- Gregory XVI (1831-46)
- Blessed Pius IX (1846-78)
- Leo XIII (1878-1903)
- St. Pius X (1903-14)
- Benedict XV (1914-22)
- Pius XI (1922-39)
- Pius XII (1939-58)
- St. John XXIII (1958-63)
- St. Paul VI (1963-78)
- John Paul I (1978)
- St. John Paul II (1978-2005)
- Benedict XVI (2005-2013)
- Francis (2013-2025)
- Leo XIV (2025—)
