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His Mercy Endures: A Reflection on Divine Mercy Sunday...
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We are children of Jesus’ Resurrection from the dead. Through this wondrous sign of His great mercy, the Father of Jesus has given us new birth, as we hear in today’s Epistle. Today’s First Reading sketches the “family life” of our first ancestors in the household of God (see 1 Peter 4:17). We see them doing what we still do—devoting themselves to the Apostles’ teaching, meeting daily to pray and celebrate...
Entertaining Angels in Transit...
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I am probably more likely to entertain strangers when on the road than I am at work or at home. While traveling on a plane, a train, or a bus, one of my favorite positions is the seat behind a baby over six months. At that age, the child can explore his setting and discover rather quickly that he can see someone through the crack between his mother’s seat and the person next to him...
I can’t read John Chapter 20 without cracking a smile...
Pope Leo XIV Denounces Trump ‘Whole Civilization Will Die’ Threat Against Iran...
Easter Sunday Urbi et Orbi: Pope Leo Urges World Leaders to Lay Down Weapons...
Pope Leo XIV Carries Cross for Via Crucis at Colosseum in Rome...
Facing Away, Franciscan Horseshoe Theory, and a Moon, If You Can Keep It...
‘Hamnet’ and the Quiet Triumph of the Christian Patriarchy...
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A few weeks ago, Jessie Buckley videos saturated my social media feed. I guess I lingered too long on the video of her receiving an academy award. But who could blame me? It isn’t every day that you see an award-winning actress telling her husband she loves him...
Washington Post: Why Catholicism Is Drawing in Gen Z Men...
Returning to the Moon, Returning to God...
Via Crucis, 2026...
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The Way of the Cross — and the third, seventh, and ninth stations in particular — has been an especially appropriate Lenten devotion this year. Every day, it seems, some new craziness erupts in the world, the country, or the Church. Every time we think we see rays of hope and possibility, we take another fall. So it’s good to remember this Holy Week...
When the Pope (Maybe) Invented April Fool’s Day...
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Before we get to the invention of April Fool’s Day, we first need to pay homage to the only pontiff to have died on this particular day of the year. Pope John XV served as Bishop of Rome for a decade at the end of the 10th Century, one of the most fraught and, frankly, dark periods of the papacy the Catholic Church has ever seen. Not much of John’s reign was remarkable...
The Nails of the Crucifixion...
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It seems like an easy question to answer, but the Gospels are silent on this moment of the crucifixion. If you look at the four Gospel accounts of the crucifixion itself, nowhere do they specify that Jesus was nailed to his cross. We have such specific images in our minds of this scene that this may come as a shock to some, but let’s look at the passages.
Something Beautiful Has Changed...
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The moment someone recommends a change in your life, the reaction can either be met with resignation, realizing that change is necessary, or resistance because you simply do not want to. The human perspective on change in relation to God involves a tension between a personal human desire and the desire for God in our lives. When Israel was liberated from Egyptian bondage, as recorded in the book of Exodus, change was about to occur...
Fake Cops, Fake Judges: The Hollywood-Style Scam Poised to Go Global...
Vatican Affirms Future of Anglican Ordinariates: ‘A Precious Gift and a Treasure to Be Shared’...
Jerusalem Churches Reach Temporary Deal with Israeli Authorities over Holy Week Access...
Pope Leo at Palm Sunday Mass: ‘Jesus Does Not Listen to Prayers of Those Who Wage War’...
The 1966 Romantic Comedy That Accidentally Became a Pro-Life Classic...
The Saving Sadness of Christ...
Pope Leo XIV Makes First Papal Visit to Monaco in 500 Years...
‘Something’s Happening’: Catholic Converts Surge in Many U.S. Dioceses...
Venerable Fulton Sheen Beatification Set for Sept. 24 in St. Louis...
Shia Culture of Martyrdom Is Key to Understanding Iran...
Boys Town Founder Father Flanagan Moves One Step Closer to Canonization...
Pope Leo’s Sunday Angelus: ‘Like Lazarus, May We Hear the Lord’s Call to New Life’...
5 Lines You May Have Missed Reveal the Meaning of Lazarus...
The American Catholic Philosophical Association at 100...
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage registration opens; schedule released...
Rome’s Colosseum gets a fresh look that recreates the footprints of long-gone columns...
When will Pope Leo come home to the United States?
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Despite the hopes of American Catholics, Pope Leo XIV will not be returning to his home country for its 250th anniversary celebrations. With the diplomatic distance between Rome and Washington widening over the war in Iran, what hopes there might have been for an early papal visit to the United States seem all but extinguished...
Artemis II: A Time to Look to the Heavens...
The Lesson of Emmaus: Hospitality Is a Duty...
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Of the various appearances of the Lord after his resurrection, the story of the road to Emmaus is especially beloved. It seems unmatched for accessibility and richness of lessons. One lesson emphasized by two major fathers of the Church might take us by surprise: the duty of hospitality...
Archdiocese of Atlanta Makes Bid to Host 2030 World Youth Day...
How Catholic Underground’s Eucharistic Adoration Draws Hundreds to Manhattan Church...
This Sunday, Christ Rose and Will Convince the World, If We Tell Them...
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On Sunday, the day after the Saturday Sabbath, Mary Magdalene set out for Jesus’s tomb before the sun had even risen. When she found the stone rolled away and the tomb empty, the Gospel reading tells us she “ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple,” John. In other words, her first thought was...
Did Jesus have to suffer to save us?
Good Friday Via Crucis in Rome: ‘Faith, Hope, Love Must Be Incarnated in Real World’...
Hallow Crunches the Numbers: Catholic Church Sees Massive Growth in New Members in 2026...
NASA’s Artemis II Begins Easter Week Mission Around the Moon...
National Catholic Register Editorial: Holy Week in a Time of War...
The Word That Towers Over Betrayal...
Estranged Families Walk the Way of the Cross...
How You Walk Might Reveal Your Risk of Death...
Seeing and Believing: A Reflection on Easter Sunday...
An Invitation to Know Jesus...
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When I began my time in the Diocese of Colorado Springs, I said I was fascinated by Jesus Christ, and I have been for much of my life. What was true then, and what was true in the Scriptures, is only truer today. I am fascinated by the way that Jesus makes himself present in our world today. I am fascinated by Jesus’ words...
This Sunday, the Passion Means the Innocent Die for the Guilty, Even Now...
All Is Fulfilled: A Reflection on Passion Sunday...
In Holy Week, Life’s Indignities Reveal Our Eternal Dignity...
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I am just back home from an unexpected trip to my hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, where I was needed by my siblings to aid in getting my 90-year-old mother, who has advanced Alzheimer’s, into a nursing home. She had fallen at home in the bathroom and cracked five ribs and punctured a lung, which, beyond her major injuries, indicated that my father...
Cuba looks to Vatican for help to ease US oil embargo, Washington Post reports...
Living Lent, the Single Life, and the Price of Authenticity...
Our Quest to Live Forever...
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“Behold, I will open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you home into the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves.” God created us to live forever. Our longing for eternal life unfolds as a continuum of human love finding its fulfillment in divine union...
Mission Received, Mission Given: Archbishop James Golka Installed as Archbishop of Denver...
Pew Research: What Do Americans Consider Immoral?
I Stole a Lemon on St. Joseph’s Day — Will It Bear Fruit?
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St. Joseph’s Day has come and gone. The novenas are finished, the festive outfits retired and perhaps most tragically, the brief Lenten excuse to eat pastries without guilt has expired. But Catholics aren’t meant to forget St. Joseph after one day. The Church dedicates the entire month of March to him, after all.
Why Does the Annunciation Loom so Large in Catholicism?
‘A Cathedral in Print’: The Rise of the Catholic Premium Bible...
100 Questions Jesus Asked and You Should Answer...
Pope Leo Calls Bishops to Rome to Discuss Families, ‘Amoris Laetitia’ in October...
Sin is the monster in the room. Suffering is our personal encounter with it...
Watch: Robot plays tennis with humans, returns shots with 96% accuracy...
What the Vatican court ruling means for papal sovereignty, and Cardinal Becciu...
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