Vatican Diplomacy 101 with Archbishop Joseph Marino
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Archbishop Joseph Marino, former president of the Vatican’s diplomacy academy, joins Colleen Dulle to answer: Who are nuncios? What do they do? And what difference do they really make?
Trump education cuts will make it more difficult for low-income students to afford college
Catholic institutions cannot stand by while government policies systematically dismantle pathways to opportunity for the students we are called to serve.
What Pope Leo’s critics get wrong about Augustine and just war doctrine
The priority of peace fundamentally grounds Augustine’s just war theory. Pacifism is not incidental but essential to it.
For priests, ‘smelling like the sheep’ is not optional
The smell of the sheep is not something external to the priest that he may put on from time to time when engaging in ministry.
Buenos Aires archbishop laments political bickering at Mass for Pope Francis
Archbishop Jorge García Cuerva of Buenos Aires rebuked the country’s political class for ignoring Pope Francis’ magisterium on unity by bickering among themselves at a Mass celebrated on the anniversary of the late pope’s passing.
Interview: Craig Finn on the ritual of a rock concert
“There’s some part of a rock and roll show which obviously has its roots in church,” Craig Finn argues. In both places, you find a group of people gathered in a room looking for relief, or community or an encounter with the transcendent power of beauty.
Pope Leo speaks on same-sex blessings, migration and more on plane back to Rome
Pope Leo said “the unity or division of the church should not revolve around sexual matters,” and that we must not treat migrants “worse than animals, as often happens.”
Getting past headlines that pit the pope against the president: Leo has a bigger job in mind
The pope vs. the president melodrama has proved irresistible to global media; how could it not? It also produced a fair amount of backlash and whataboutism directed at Pope Leo XIV.
Lebanese Christians rejoice over new Christ statue brought by Italian soldiers after IDF desecration
Lebanese Christians in Debel are celebrating the gift of a new statue of Jesus on the cross after a recent act of desecration by two Israeli soldiers drew global outrage.
Let God lead you out of fear
A Reflection for the Friday of the Third Week of Easter, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.
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