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God or Nothing? Modern Science Points Only One Way, Says French Author


New Study of St. Teresa of Avila’s Relics Reveals ‘Incredible’ Initial Findings ...


The Vatican Pushes for Peace as the War in Ukraine Approaches Its Third Winter...
Peter Laffin
As the brutal fighting in Ukraine approaches its third winter with no end in sight, the Vatican has once again dispatched Italian Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi to push for peace. Cardinal Zuppi, who is Pope Francis’ special envoy to Ukraine, embarked on his second visit to Moscow on Monday, where he will “assess further efforts to facilitate the reunification of Ukrainian children with their families...


Neutrality and Nobility: How the Order of Malta Runs Its Diplomatic Service...


How to Make a Family Necrology — and Why You Should Do It...


The 4 Forgotten Martyrs of the American Southwest...


Carry No Purse, No Bag, No Sandals...
Tom Neal
Today’s Gospel at Mass had me thinking about a homily I heard a few years ago in Omaha on Luke 10:4, which contains Jesus’ instructions for the disciples as he sends them out on mission: “Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals.” How does ditching your purse, bag and sandals even work for me? Not a rejection of legitimate self-defense, possessions. It’s a mindset. Priorities. Different for each, detachment is the key. Not being possessed by possessions...


Pope’s Sunday Angelus: ‘True Wealth Is to Be Looked Upon With Love by God’...


Mater Et Magistra, La Suprema, and Disordered Desire...


How ‘Wir sind Papst!’ Became a Headline for the Ages...
Luke Coppen
Hours after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in 2005, the German journalist Georg Streiter came up with a headline that’s still remembered almost 20 years later. Streiter, the political editor of the Bild newspaper, condensed Germany’s excitement at the election of its first native son in 482 years into three words: “Wir sind Papst!” (“We are pope”).


3 Simple Rules for the Rosary, from Actor David Henrie (‘Wizards of Waverly Place,’ ‘How I Met Your Mother’)...
Fr. Patrick Briscoe
As Catholics around the world celebrate October, the month of the holy Rosary, actor and director David Henrie recently shared with Our Sunday Visitor how this powerful prayer has impacted his life. Known for his roles in Disney’s “Wizards of Waverly Place” and the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” Henrie has been open about the central role that the Rosary plays in his personal and family life...


Why the Príncipi Case Matters...
Ed Condon
The Vatican Secretariat of State’s “extraordinary procedure” to reinstate a laicized priest, blocked this week by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, may prove to be the most significant Vatican story of the year. Little is known, as yet, about why sostituto Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra issued an order trying to reinstate a man convicted of child sexual abuse by two interdiocesan tribunals in Argentina. But his decision to do so, and the DDF’s move to publicly void the attempt, raises real questions about the role of Pope Francis, the rule of law, and the exercise of power in the Vatican...


Jesus Does Not Follow the Science...
Fr. Jerry Pokorsky
Patients use Internet medical portals to make appointments, ask questions of medical personnel, and check laboratory results. But do the medical portal masters follow the science? The portal masters now ask: What was your sex assigned at birth? (Me: “I don’t remember.”) What are your preferred pronouns?


States Continue to Report High Levels of Home Schooling After Pandemic Boost, Study Finds...


What We Can Learn from Falling Leaves...
John Cuddeback
Though I love autumn and the fall of leaves, at the same time something in me rebels. Even as I think, “I don’t want to miss their turning,” part of me just wants it to be over. Somehow, like life itself, autumn in its beauty and drama can be just too much. But maybe I need to learn something from the leaves. Hilaire Belloc often puts to words sentiments I had not realized I was feeling...


‘Go and Fear Nothing’: How Our Lady of Champion’s Message Still Inspires Today...


The owner of the White Sox wasn’t really sorry for his losing team...


Snubs and Surprises: Making Sense of Pope Francis’ Latest Cardinal Picks...

The Third Crisis of the Church: What It Means and 5 Things You Can Do...
Tracey Rowland
The Cambridge historian Richard Rex has noted that the first great crisis in Christianity was over the nature of the Trinity, especially over the nature of Christ, hence the early Christological heresies. The second great crisis, associated with the Reformation, was over the nature of the Church. This entailed the Protestant attack on sacramentality and the sacred hierarchy...


Catholic’s Ministry Is Collecting Used Religious Objects to Give to Churches in Need of Them...


How ‘Special Interest Advocacy’ Works at the Synod on Synodality...
Jonathan Liedl
In the next day or two, don’t be surprised to see a fresh round of news stories about support for ordaining women at the Synod on Synodality. It’s a reasonable prediction, given that, earlier today, an advocacy group blasted out an email, obtained by the Register, inviting synod delegates to join them tomorrow at an event promoting the cause...


Archaeologists Uncover One of the World's Oldest Churches: ‘Sensational Testimony to Early Christianity’...


Catholic Priest Celebrates Mass Atop All 54 of Colorado’s Soaring 14ers...


What Does Heaven Cost? A Homily for the 28th Sunday of the Year...
Msgr. Charles Pope
A rich man asks Jesus, Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? Jesus decides to follow up on the man’s premise, saying to him, You know the commandments: You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defraud; honor your father and your mother.


Pope Francis Writes Letter to New Cardinals: ‘You Express the Church’s Unity’...


Doctrine Dicastery Overturns Vatican Ruling in Priest Laicization Case...


Growing Seeds of Faith in America: Catholicism in ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’...
Susanna Spencer
Sadie stood on the boat, heavy with child, a toddler clinging to her hand, the shores of France shrinking into the distance. It had been weeks already since she had left her home in Lebanon—where she had lived with her fellow Christians in fear and poverty due to Ottoman persecution. At the age of eighteen, she was going with...


This Sunday, Give Up the Lie: Meet Jesus and Offer Him Your True Self...
Tom Hoopes
Too often, when we look in the mirror, we see a dream version of ourselves instead of what is in front of our eyes. We so badly want to be the “best version of ourselves” that this is all we see. But then, when we get a glimpse of our true selves, it can be jarring — like seeing a picture of ourselves and saying, “Yikes. I thought I looked better than that!”


Report: Nearly 150 Catholic Hospitals Provided Transgender Surgeries or Drugs to Children...


My truth? The real Personal truth is neither mine nor yours...
Jeff Mirus
Back in August, on the Feast of the Assumption, I did a round-up of Six inspiring books to jump-start your inner evangelist. Today I want to return to one page of one of those books, the collection of brief extracts from the addresses and writings of Pope Benedict XVI, God Is Ever New: Meditations on Life, Love, and Freedom. I have just finished using this book as part of my nightly spiritual reading.


Indifference Is Irresponsible...
George Weigel
I can understand why many Americans seem dispirited about world affairs. Things are indeed a mess. What I cannot understand, however, is the electorate’s seeming indifference to the global mess: an indifference that manifests itself in our national failure to demand that our wannabe leaders address the new world disorder seriously rather than through sound bites and snarky slogans...


A Renaissance of Aquinas at 800...


St. Daniel, and Some Trolley Problems...


The Essential Nature of the Church: Communio and Mystery...


Bases Loaded with History: The Catholic Ties Between the Dodgers and Padres...


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