Extraordinary consistory signals Pope Leo’s push to work with cardinals on global challenges
As the second consistory of the year, the pope is making good on the cardinals’ requests for further collaboration, which the college expressed during the general congregations prior to his election last year.
Vatican to German bishops: No lay people preaching homilies at Mass
The Vatican has rejected a request from the German bishops for special permission to allow lay men and women to preach homilies during Mass.
The moral witness of doctor and writer Robert Coles
Robert Coles—a psychiatrist, sociologist, historian and storyteller—was in many ways the moral conscience of his generation.
Father James Martin and Hasan Minhaj on Islam, comedy and the spiritual life
Hasan Minhaj is best known as a comedian. But given his intense interest in different faith traditions, he could also be considered a student (or maybe even a teacher) of comparative religion.
Laboring for Beauty: The Tradition of Catholic Worker Art
Since the first Catholic Worker artists filled the pages of its newspaper with woodblock prints, art has been an important dimension of the organization’s vision of the reconstruction of the social order.
What I learned from (temporarily) losing my home
A Reflection for Thursday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time, by Maurice Timothy Reidy
The extraordinary existence of each person—flaws and all
A Reflection for the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, by Heather Trotta
Pope Leo XIV exalts first American saint Cabrini as a model for Christians for her care of migrants
St. Frances 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.
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