Pope Leo XIV exalts first American saint Cabrini as a model for Christians for her care of migrants
St. Francis Cabrini, the patron saint of migrants, is well known to many Americans for her work caring for Italian immigrants in the U.S. at the turn of the last century.
Pope Leo: War is ‘fed more easily’ than the hungry
“The world today could live without hunger,” but “conflicts are ‘fed’ more easily than people are nourished,” Pope Leo XIV said when he visited the United Nations World Food Program.
Survey: Pope Leo is very popular—though partisan polarization is growing
Broken down across party lines, 84% of U.S. Catholics who lean Democratic approved of Leo in Thursday’s poll, as did 72% of Catholics who lean Republican.
500 years later, the Spanish conqueror of Mexico still stirs controversy on both sides of the Atlantic
While many Mexicans consider Cortés a rapacious historical villain, Hispanophiles, both in Spain and across the Americas, lionize him for bringing Catholicism and Spanish culture to Mesoamerica.
Migrant farmworkers are lonely and scared. This Jesuit leads a ministry to serve them.
Tom Florek, S.J., is the executive director of the Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network, a national nonprofit made up of 40 dioceses that minister to the thousands of people.
The Foundation of Unconditional Love
June 28, 2026, Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: This Sunday’s Gospel passage focuses upon two sets of instructions, each aimed at a different audience.
Let God be the only one to judge you
A Reflection for Monday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
‘Like I’ve rarely seen him’: Pope Leo’s visit to Spain
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Gerard O’Connell recaps for Colleen Dulle the highlights from the pope’s three stops: Madrid, Barcelona and the Canary Islands.
Andre Dubus’s ‘A Father’s Story’: a short story with theological heft
For Andre Dubus, writing was a question of deciphering what was happening in the lives of his characters and translating that for others to see and understand—all of which can be seen clearly in “A Father’s Story.”
Will the ’Nova Knicks pay a visit to Pope Leo?
The Knicks are the 2026 N.B.A. champions. And New York right now may be the closest thing to heaven on earth.
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