Once-secret Emperor Commodus’ passage to Rome Colosseum opens to public for the first time...
Reflections on Dilexi Te, the first magisterial document of Leo XIV’s pontificate...
Pope Leo XIV’s first magisterial document of his papacy, Dilexi Te (“I have loved you”), has understandably generated a lot of interest. An apostolic exhortation is a fairly low-level document in terms of the classical criteria for adjudicating the authority of magisterial texts. Pope Leo has played his cards close to the vest during these first months of his papacy, doing and saying little that would generate much controversy...
‘Dilexi Te’: Pope Leo XIV, in His First Major Document, Says the Poor Evangelize Us...
Apostolic Exhortation ‘Dilexi Te’ on Love for the Poor...
“I have loved you.” The Lord speaks these words to a Christian community that, unlike some others, had no influence or resources, and was treated instead with violence and contempt: “You have but little power. ... I will make them come and bow down before your feet.” This text reminds us of the words of the canticle of Mary: “He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty”...
Remains of St. Francis of Assisi to Be Publicly Displayed for the First Time in 800 Years...
Hollywood Has Made Many Movies About Exorcism. But None Has Had Christ at Its Heart...
These special-effects-driven exorcism movies threaten to turn this holy rite into nothing more than a ludicrously unbelievable subgenre of Hollywood horror, and not a very important one. When that happens (if it hasn’t already), the rite of exorcism and the office of exorcist may become a joke. The line between horror and humor is thin. Jesus cast out demons. But he also gave his Apostles the power, which they used...
Our Lord warned about ‘vain repetition’ in prayer. So what about the Rosary?
Are Catholics guilty of “vain repetition” in prayer? Protestants often make this accusation. They say that repeated standard prayers, rather than spontaneous, improvised prayers, is pointless and even damaging. Typically, this comes up with regard to the holy rosary, but it is often applied more broadly. The claim is that Our Lord specifically condemned repetitive prayer during his earthly ministry, and Catholics are in violation of this prohibition.
Returning Thanks: A Reflection on the upcoming 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time...
A foreign leper is cleansed and in thanksgiving returns to offer homage to the God of Israel. We hear this same story in both the First Reading and Gospel today. There were many lepers in Israel in Elisha’s time, but only Naaman the Syrian trusted in God’s Word and was cleansed (see Luke 5:12–14). Today’s Gospel likewise implies that most of the ten lepers healed by Jesus were Israelites—but only a foreigner, the Samaritan, returned.
Jason Kelce’s wife Kylie has a popular podcast — where she just upstaged Taylor Swift with her remarks about unborn children...
In Respect Life Month, Kylie Kelce did the impossible: She upstaged Taylor Swift, who is engaged to become her sister-in-law. And she did it by talking about how deeply we mourn unborn children. Taylor Swift’s new album should have been the talk of the week, but for many families, its risqué photography and explicit lyrics made it a nonstarter.
Mary Shows Up, and Mrs. Bucket...
It’s the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary — and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post. You probably know the story of Our Lady of Victory, and the Oct. 7, 1571, Battle of Lepanto. A European armada of warships aimed to defend Venetian outposts on the island of Cyprus. The Ottoman Empire wanted Cyprus, so that it could use the island as a launching point to invade Italy and take the city of Rome...
What Do We Know of Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s Unhailed Holy Queen?
How to Answer 4 Common Jewish Objections to Jesus...
The Risk of Teaching Against Christ...
6 Strange Time Zone Disputes Around the World...
All About Me, Cause and Effect, and Secret Policemen...
6 Reasons You Should Look to Christ and Stop Paying Attention to Celebrity Exorcists...
Good luck Limiting AI Slop in YouTube Land...
Stop lying to yourself. And stop texting while driving...
‘I Must Believe in God’: How Dr. Jane Goodall’s Visit to Notre Dame Cathedral Changed Her Life...
Statement of Cardinal Blase Cupich on the Keep Hope Alive Award...
Not More Infantile Claptrap...
Catholics in Slovakia Welcome Constitutional Amendment Protecting Family and Marriage...
‘Patient preparation’ - Cardinal Czerny on integral ecology in a Leonine papacy...
Cardinal Cupich Meetings With Illinois Catholic Leaders Canceled Amid Durbin Award Controversy...
Could Jesus Really Be Tempted?
To Prepare for Death, Think Often of the ‘Last Things’: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell...
Pope Leo XIV to Proclaim St. John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church on Nov. 1...
Why Charlie Kirk’s Death Felt So Personal for Me and So Many Others...
Leo’s First Move, All to Play For, and Let Them Eat Swan...
Wisdom in ‘The Wind in the Willows’...
Last week, my daughter and I went to watch a local production of the recent musical adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, which has proved very successful on the other side of the Pond since its premiere in the English county of Devon in 2016. As a family, we like to support local cultural initiatives and this was emphatically local. We knew several members of the cast and many members of the audience...
Loyola University Basketball’s Sister Jean Dolores Dies at 106...
‘Dilexi Te’: The Franciscan Framework of Pope Leo’s First Document...
The first major document of a pontificate is highly anticipated as an indication of the new Pope’s agenda. Pope Leo XIV has chosen to place his first document, the apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te (I Have Loved You) into a Franciscan framework. The Vatican press office, unusually, carried a news item that Dilexi Te had been signed on Saturday, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Oct. 4...
The problem(s) with ‘LGBTQ Catholic’...
The late Father Richard John Neuhaus had a love/hate relationship with the New York Times. Richard was a passionate partisan of New York City, which he sometimes described as a preview of the New Jerusalem, but the Grey Lady’s parochialism nonetheless led him to occasionally dismiss New York’s most prestigious daily as a “parish newsletter.” He regularly castigated the Times’ editorials for their air of smug infallibility...
The Devil and the Duckspeakers...
Every few years, I reread a couple of my favorite authors. George Orwell, despite his disdain for things Catholic, has always been on my list. This time I paid special attention to his essay, “The Principles of Newspeak.” He appended it to his dystopian novel 1984. As Orwell noted in his text, Newspeak – the language of Oceania’s Airstrip One...
Go Behind the Scenes of the ‘Hallow’ App With Co-Founder Alex Jones...
It’s a simple idea with profound results: use a smartphone app to guide people into a habit of daily prayer. Through monthly prayer challenges, reflections, videos, and music from some of the most recognizable and influential Catholics in the world (and I’m on there, too!), Hallow has recently crossed the incredible milestone of logging 1 billion prayers. Praise God! In this episode of The Chris Stefanick Show...
How you will never hear the seamless garment theory used...
In commenting on the Durbin-award controversy, when Pope Leo XIV made comparative remarks about related contemporary moral positions, he put it this way: Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life...
12 Failed Constitutional Amendments That Could Have Reshaped American History...
The Rosary, the Battle of Lepanto and More in Voyage Comics’ New Comic Book...
Earlier this year we released Messages from Our Lady #1, a new comic book series that follows two middle school students, Adele and Francisco, as they struggle to find their place in the world. Included in each issue of this series is a visual illustration of Marian apparitions or remarkable miracles associated with Our Lady. This second issue will include the origin of the Rosary, the Battle of Lepanto and more...
What Awaits Pope Leo XIV in Lebanon...
How should Catholics think about Islam?
Is My Body Mine? - LifeCraft...
True Christian Charity Is Sacrificial and Personal...
Pope Leo XIV Signs First Apostolic Exhortation, ‘Dilexi Te’ — Text to Be Released Thursday...
Life by Faith: A Reflection on the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time...
This Sunday, You Will Reject Everything Jesus Says in This Gospel — At First...
Pontifical Swiss Guard Restore Historic Dress Uniform Dropped 50 Years Ago...
Shackleton’s Fourth Man: The Mysterious Phenomenon That Guided 27 Men Home...
‘Last opportunity’ to leave: Catholics and Orthodox in Gaza City face agonizing decision...
Leah Libresco Sargeant on the Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto...
If you don’t care for the poor, you will go to Hell...
British Catholic Bishop Condemns Manchester Synagogue Attack That Killed Two on Yom Kippur...
Durbin Declines Cupich Award Ahead of Looming USCCB Response ...
Pope Leo XIV Wades Into Debate Over Cardinal Cupich Award for Pro-Abortion Sen. Durbin...
How Should Catholics Respond to a Cross-Dressing Man at Mass?
Pope Leo Channels His Inner Benedict XVI by Extolling ‘Healthy Secularism’...
Why Earth Is the Only Place in the Solar System That Has Fire...
Seamless Garment? Cardinal Cupich Mixes the Metaphor...
Will ‘Ugly Mess’ in Becciu Case Obscure the Real Issue Facing Vatican Justice?
The Erika Kirk Moment and the Kamala Harris Presidency That Wasn’t...
Pope Leo Names Archbishop Filippo Iannone, Italian Carmelite, as Prefect of Dicastery for Bishops...
Dick Durbin Should Not Be Honored by the Catholic Church in Chicago...
A Great Chasm: A Reflection on the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time...
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The Complete List of Popes
- St. Peter (32-67)
- St. Linus (67-76)
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- St. Clement I (88-97)
- St. Evaristus (97-105)
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- St. Pius I (140-155)
- St. Anicetus (155-166)
- St. Soter (166-175)
- St. Eleutherius (175-189)
- St. Victor I (189-199)
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- St. Callistus I (217-22)
- St. Urban I (222-30)
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- 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)
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- St. Caius (283-296)
- St. Marcellinus (296-304)
- St. Marcellus I (308-309)
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- 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)
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- St. Simplicius (468-83)
- St. Felix III (II) (483-92)
- St. Gelasius I (492-96)
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- St. Symmachus (498-514)
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- John II (533-35)
- St. Agapetus I (535-36)
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- Vigilius (537-55)
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- Benedict I (575-79)
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- Boniface III (607)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- Stephen VIII (929-31)
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- Marinus II (942-46)
- Agapetus II (946-55)
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- Leo VIII (963-64)
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- John XIII (965-72)
- Benedict VI (973-74)
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- John XIV (983-84)
- John XV (985-96)
- Gregory V (996-99)
- Sylvester II (999-1003)
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- Sergius IV (1009-12)
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- St. Leo IX (1049-54)
- Victor II (1055-57)
- Stephen X (1057-58)
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- St. Gregory VII (1073-85)
- Blessed Victor III (1086-87)
- Blessed Urban II (1088-99)
- Paschal II (1099-1118)
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- Honorius II (1124-30)
- Innocent II (1130-43)
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- Lucius II (1144-45)
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- Anastasius IV (1153-54)
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- Lucius III (1181-85)
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- Gregory VIII (1187)
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- 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)
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- Blessed Gregory X (1271-76)
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- Blessed Urban V (1362-70)
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- Urban VI (1378-89)
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- Innocent VII (1404-06)
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- Clement VIII (1592-1605)
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- Innocent X (1644-55)
- Alexander VII (1655-67)
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- Clement X (1670-76)
- Blessed Innocent XI (1676-89)
- Alexander VIII (1689-91)
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