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More than sixteen years ago, on the morning of his installation Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, an ebullient (when was he not?) Archbishop Timothy Dolan greeted...

It’s a Marian week on the Catholic calendar, with three feasts observed in five days: Immaculate Conception (December 8), Our Lady of Loreto (December 10), and Our Lady of...

Already we have had an array of first-hundred-days analyses of Pope Leo XIV, as though the first American-born pope could be judged like an American president...

"Slogans do not lift people out of poverty,” Pope Leo XIV said in his address to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, exactly a week after his first major document was released. Dilexi Te...

Pope Leo XIV has explained that his choice of regnal name is an homage to Pope Leo XIII (1878–1903), the architect of the modern papacy. It was Leo who...

Does a conclave elect the man the Holy Spirit desires to lead the Church? History teaches that sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s view was that...

Pope Francis died early Easter Monday, less than twelve hours after the last evening Masses had been offered in Roman parishes. On Easter Sunday evening, the assigned Gospel passage...

Last month, the chief rabbi of Rome accused Pope Francis of “selective indignation” in his comments about the Israel-Hamas war. “A pope cannot divide the world into children and...

The long-running CBS series Blue Bloods had its series finale on December 13, after fourteen seasons on the air and nearly three hundred episodes, which aired on Fridays. In...

How should Catholics speak about Jews in general, and Israel in particular? That question was raised anew by a recent interview book in which Pope Francis commented on the...

How should Catholics speak about Jews in general, and Israel in particular? That question was raised anew by a recent interview book in which Pope Francis commented on the...

As the presidential campaign winds down, the Trump-Vance ticket is ramping up warnings of Christian persecution if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election. “The radical left is not...

As the three-year synodal process on synodality for a synodal Church limps into its final three weeks of meetings in Rome, even poking fun at it has become a...

Were you there when the sun refused to shine? So our choir sang on Good Friday during the veneration of the Cross. The Reproaches are sung first, but more...

The Holy Father’s eleventh anniversary (March 19) fell at a difficult moment, with a global controversy over his Ukrainian “white flag” remarks, in which he said that Ukraine should...