A former SSPX priest embraces life as a gay man and tattoo artist
Francis Palmquist, a tattoo artist and former priest, describes his new life away from traditionalist Catholic circles.
After botched execution in Tennessee, Catholics pray for the end of the death penalty
“We have, unfortunately, a lot of examples that point to why the death penalty should be ended once and for all,” the head of the Catholic Mobilizing Network said after a woman survived two failed attempts to execute her by lethal injection.
Cycling for vocations in the birthplace of American Catholicism
Catholics have been talking about the vocations’ shortage for a long time. What I saw in southern Maryland was lots of ordinary Catholics taking responsibility for doing something.
The bold canon law changes from the synod now on Pope Leo’s desk
Though published to little fanfare, recommendations from the synod’s canon law commission represent the first step toward codifying synodality into the church’s law.
‘Primetime’ brings ‘To Catch a Predator’ to the big screen—but looks for evil in all the wrong places
‘Primetime’ gives us an easy target for our disgust so we can ignore the finger pointing back at us.
How to worry about A.I. without despairing
You’re probably worried about A.I. for the wrong reasons—or at least not all of the reasons.
A Cormac McCarthy novel tore my parish book club apart
I found no hope, no goodness, no warmth to redeem the post-apocalyptic world of ‘The Road.’ My fellow parishioners disagreed.
Reach out to others—even those you don’t like
A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Alexandra Pfau
Bishop Barron meets Pope Leo XIV at Vatican
Bishop Robert E. Barron met Pope Leo XIV for a private audience at the Vatican Oct 1, describing his first extended, one-on-one conversation with a pope as covering “a lot of different topics.”
Global Catholic charity head says they’re doing ‘less with less’ after Trump’s foreign aid cuts
Even as some foreign aid has been revived, pledges from donor states remain far below the world’s needs and humanitarian groups are still struggling to recover from 2025’s debilitating cuts.
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