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Pope Leo XIV Sends a Maronite from Beirut to the United Nations as Israeli Troops Hold Southern Lebanon
12+ hour, 10+ min ago (1151+ words) Pope Leo XIV named Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia El-Kassis the Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations on Saturday, handing the Vatican’s seat in New York to a Maronite priest born in Beirut while Israeli troops still hold ground inside southern…...
Nun Arrested By ICE Walking to Mass Speaks Out
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (1234+ words) Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja held a press conference at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas, on Thursday and spoke publicly for the first time about her June 28 arrest by federal agents who handcuffed her on her way…...
After Lawsuit Threat, Bishop Barron Falls Deeper into MAGA Abyss
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (1328+ words) Earlier this week, a letter from the Washington law firm Cooper & Kirk arrived in my inbox. The firm represents Word on Fire, Bishop Robert Barron’s media company, and the subject line announced a “NOTICE OF LEGAL ACTION.” The letter itself…...
“Nothing Could Be Less Catholic” — Trump Is Suing the Church to Remove Shrine for Border Wall
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (1129+ words) Last week, Rep. Veronica Escobar, the El Paso Democrat, introduced the Mount Cristo Rey Protection Act, a bill to stop the federal government from taking Catholic Church land for Donald Trump’s border wall. Not a single member of Congress has…...
“Run Like Mary Magdalene” — Pope Leo XIV’s Vision for Women in the Church
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (1539+ words) Today is the Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene, and in her honor, this one is free for everybody. “Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord.’” — John 20:18 Somewhere along the way I absorbed the idea…...
Pope Leo XIV’s College Years Included a Laxative Prank — and the Vatican Put It on Film
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (507+ words) Today’s essay takes you inside Leone a Roma, the Vatican’s new documentary on Pope Leo XIV’s Roman years — with timestamps for every revelation. The first, starring a booby-trapped alarm clock and a laxative disguised as candy, is free for everyone....
Quoting Bob Dylan, Pope Leo XIV Demands Nuclear Disarmament as Trump Reignites the Iran War
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (1648+ words) Pope Leo XIV called for nuclear disarmament on Tuesday in a new book from the Vatican’s own publishing house, writing that “it is not atomic weapons that generate peace, but disarmament.” The book — Disarmed and Disarming: Peace Is a Gift,…...
“Lift Our Gaze Toward Heaven” — Pope Leo XIV and His Predecessors’ Celebration of Space Travel
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (1703+ words) “Beauty,” Pope Leo XIV told a crowd gathered for a Saturday evening concert in the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace at Castel Gandolfo, “helps us to see and to lift our gaze toward heaven.” The line was a callback to…...
“Never Be Normalized” — U.S. Bishops Rebuke Trump’s ICE Over the Killings of Salgado and Durán
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (1103+ words) The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops confronted the Trump administration again on Monday, releasing a pastoral reflection on the immigration enforcement killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine. “Acts that diminish…...
“The Church Cannot Be Silent” — ICE Killed Lorenzo Salgado and Johan Durán on Their Way to Work
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (1076+ words) Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to a job site in Houston on the morning of July 7 when an ICE agent shot him. Six days later, in Biddeford, Maine, Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero left home for the first…...