Wait, Who Trusts Disney+ These Days?
Terry Mattingly
Here is the good news: We live in an age in which emerging forms of digital technology will offer consumers an ever-growing number of content options on the dozen or more digital screens in their homes. Now, the bad news: We live in an age in which emerging forms of digital technology will offer consumers an ever-growing number of content options...

Fr. Vincent Capodanno, Servant of God, pray for us...
Chris Stefanick
Fr. Vincent Capodanno was a Navy chaplain serving with the Marines in the Vietnam War. His Marines loved him because he always made a point of being with them on the front line, in the thick of battle. Chaplains weren’t required to do that—in fact, they were encouraged to wait at base for the wounded to come back. He wanted to be where the men he called “my Marines” needed him most...

How Pope Leo XIV Became ‘More Peruvian Than the Potato’...
Jonathan Liedl
Spend any amount of time visiting the places that Robert Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — served in Peru, and those who knew him will invariably use the same Spanish word to describe the American missionary: amigo. In speaking of their former youth group leader, pastor or bishop as “a friend,” Peruvians often emphasize how Robert Prevost never used the loftiness of his office as an excuse to hold back from his people...

Pope Leo XIV Urges Youth to Shun ‘the Idols of Our Time’ and turn to Christ...
Francis X. Rocca
Pope Leo XIV appealed to young people to reject worldly distractions and follow Christ, assuring them that their past mistakes are no obstacle to joining the Church. “Dear young people, Christ loves us and wants us to share in his own life,” Leo told an estimated 1 million participants at a vigil on Nov. 10, his last night in Argentina...

What Killed Off Newspapers Is Killing Your Parish...
Marcel LeJeune
If you lived in the age of newspapers, then you probably have memories of reading them regularly, even if it was just the Sunday comics. Flash forward to today and we have had a sharp decline in the number of newspapers that still operate. In fact, nearly 40% of all U.S. newspapers have closed in the past 20 years. Some may say the internet killed newspapers...

Leo XIV Celebrates Mass in Buenos Aires After Warm Welcome in Argentina...

Pope Leo XIV Encourages Uruguay to Be ‘a Community of Prayer’...

This Sunday: It Is Dark, and the Lord Is Long Delayed — But Don’t Give Up Hope...
Tom Hoopes
Jesus reminds us in the Gospel reading at Mass this Sunday that we are like bridesmaids waiting out in the darkness with no light — and that he is the light of the world. Here are six takeaways from the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time taken from Sunday Readings columns at this site and The Extraordinary Story podcast. First: The 10 wise and foolish virgins seem to be doing everything right, at first...

Patrick Lencioni: Why You Feel Drained Even When You Love Your Work...

Young Men Need Helpful Church Ladies...

Feminists Seek Grievances; Christians Seek Grace...
Carrie Gress
The 1954 classic movie, White Christmas, features the relationship between media moguls Bob Wallace and Phil Davis. As soldiers during World War II, Davis (played by Danny Kaye), heroically saved the life of his future business partner, Wallace (Bing Crosby). Much of the story’s plot revolves around Davis’ pointing to his old war-injured arm as a reminder to Wallace that he saved his life...

Pope Leo Receives Bob Dylan at the Vatican...

5 Ways to Make Sure You Get Prayers and Masses After Your Death...

Kite Parades, Born Again Again, and Staying Outside...

In 1963, He Said Mass for JFK. The Communists Sentenced Him to Death...

Getting Low, Rorsach Report, and Virtually Prolife...

7 Ways Every Mother Can Learn to Say Yes Like Mary...

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