54+ min ago  (1334+ words) (One note before we begin, Encyclical day is like my Christmas. I hope my passion for the pope and his prophetic words on one of the premier issues of our time comes through in the coming days.) "Don't let Chat…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1051+ words) Pope Leo XIV stepped into the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic Palace on Friday morning and told scholars gathered at the Vatican for "Preserving Human Voices and Faces," an international conference on artificial intelligence, that the technology has produced "an…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (325+ words) Sister Mary Meline told NBC News that ultra-Orthodox men spit at her nearly every time she walks through Jerusalem. "The spitting on the ground for me it's every time I go to Jerusalem nearly," she said in a Richard Engel…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (1211+ words) On May 5, three days before the first anniversary of Pope Leo XIV's election, the Vatican released a document with a title built to put readers to sleep: "Theological Criteria and Synodal Methodologies for Shared Discernment of Emerging Doctrinal, Pastoral, and…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1199+ words) On Sunday, May 17, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the retired archbishop of New York, and Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, lent their voices to "Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving," the Trump-backed prayer festival on the National Mall. Barron…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1078+ words) One week from today, in the Vatican's Synod Hall, Pope Leo XIV will unveil Magnifica Humanitas " magnificent humanity " the first papal encyclical on artificial intelligence in the history of the Church. The pope signed the document on May 15, the 135th anniversary…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (335+ words) These reflections are "quieter" than my usual essays. They are prayers as much as arguments " meditations on what the lectionary asks of us in the weeks between Easter and Pentecost. The aim is the same as everything else I do…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago  (493+ words) Make A One-Time Gift to Support My Work Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester sat for Fox News this week to do what he has been doing for months " attack American Democrats, defend American capitalism, and step around the Catholic teachings…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1565+ words) The verdict came in this past week, and it wasn't close. A new ABC News'Washington Post'Ipsos poll, fielded April 24 to 28 and released May 6, found Pope Leo XIV with a 41 percent favorable rating among American adults and only 16 percent unfavorable. Two-thirds…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (707+ words) Make A One-Time Gift to Support My Work One hundred thirty-five years ago today, Pope Leo XIII signed Rerum Novarum and gave the Catholic Church its public voice on the great social question of the modern world. The document landed…...