Why are presidential candidates chasing the evangelical vote in Catholic-majority Brazil?
Home to more than 100 million faithful, Brazil has been called the world’s most Catholic nation. But in the upcoming presidential election, candidates are chasing evangelical voters the hardest.
True power begins with humility
A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kerry Weber
France trip showed the miracle of rebirth out of tragedy is possible, Pope Leo says
Pope Leo XIV’s journey to France aimed to show that a joyful or serene rebirth is always possible even after tremendous tragedy or terrible suffering, he said.
Mother: Pope Leo’s blessing of special-needs daughter recognizes ‘segment of humanity often set aside’
A photo of Pope Leo blessing Marie-Garance, a 10-year-old girl who has multiple disabilities, went viral after their encounter in Paris on Saturday.
Remembering Peter Henriot, a Jesuit scholar who helped put Catholic social teaching on the map
While U.S. Catholics might remember Peter Henriot, S.J., best for his social justice advocacy, he was better known in the minds of many for his decades of service to the church in Africa.
Fulton Sheen’s beatification ceremony was a model of evangelization for the whole church
Sometimes the best evangelization is not trying to evangelize.
Canadian bishops hear from Latin American archbishop about building a synodal church at annual plenary
The whole concept of synodality came from the Vatican to Canada, while in Latin America and the Caribbean it was an outgrowth of existing church culture, two bishops noted.
Pope Leo’s communications day theme highlights risks of the ‘attention economy’ in the age of clickbait
“To communicate in the age of ‘clickbait,’ we are called to ‘pay attention’ and to rediscover a genuinely healthy attention,” the Dicastery for Communication said today.
Archbishop Gomez: 100 years later, we must remember the martyrs of Mexico’s anti-Catholic persecutions
During the persecutions that followed the Mexican Revolution of 1917, priests were executed by firing squad. Ordinary Catholics, even teenagers, were imprisoned, tortured and murdered.
Pope Leo is not ‘in panic mode’ about an A.I. catastrophe, but ‘we can’t just sit back’ and do nothing
The pope made the comments during an in-flight press conference on his return trip to Rome from France the evening of Sept. 28.
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