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Catholic
Charities USA President Kerry Alys Robinson said the bill "has the
potential to improve the lives of so many of our fellow citizens." |
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“Should
Catholics interpret the creation and enduring existence of the State of
Israel as a sign of God’s providence — or should they not?” Catholic
Voices for Israel asks Pope Leo in an open letter.
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A Rastafarian's Supreme Court loss shows religious freedom depends on who you are
Religion News
Service: No matter how robustly our laws may appear to protect religious
liberty, our rights are mediated, shaped and limited by a larger legal
system that frequently fails to protect the most vulnerable.
The Southern Baptist Convention was going mainstream. Then the Christian nationalists weighed in.
Mother Jones: The SBC appears to be making a significant course correction in the form of a sharp rightward tack.
Religion News Service: How women pastors became public enemy No. 1 in the SBC
Bay Area religious leaders condemn Giants players’ Bible verse protest during Pride Night
KRON4: The decision
of three San Francisco Giants players to write Bible verses on their
special baseball caps at the team’s Pride Night celebration is
continuing to cause blowback. Now, more than two dozen Bay Area clergy
have signed on to a letter calling out the players.
Why Texas’ fight over social studies standards has national consequences*
Education Week: A
growing number of states — including Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and
Utah — have moved to incorporate Christian teaching and text into K-12
classrooms. Texas has been a leader in this trend.
The God dimension
Granta: In an
interview, writers Jon Fosse and Marilynne Robinson both insist that
language can make a spiritual absence as present to our senses as the
objects we can see, taste, and touch.
Bishops of Sodor & Man and Winchester to chair new sexuality working groups
Makin group critical that question of seal of confession remains with the Bishops
Women in leadership ‘get more criticism’ Archbishop of Canterbury says
Brazillian author of bestselling collection of prayers donates all its proceeds to church projects
Angela Tilby: Cathedrals’ appeal is not about ‘fun’
Retirement resources for clergy
This year’s World Cup is supersizing evangelism efforts*
Christianity Today: Organizers from around the US see soccer as an “unfathomable” opening for ministry.
South Carolina’s AME church bails out Charleston’s historic Mt. Zion, which faced foreclosure
The Post and Courier:
The statewide African Methodist Episcopal diocese has purchased
beleaguered Mt. Zion AME Church on Glebe Street, bailing out the
historic downtown house of worship that faced a foreclosure lawsuit.
How one news error shook Baltimore’s faith community
The AFRO: Faith
leaders say The Baltimore Sun’s mistaken identification of a respected
pastor raises larger questions about accountability, trust, and how
Black Baltimoreans are portrayed.
Haitian immigrants revived a church. Now the pews are empty.
Religion News
Service: With the Supreme Court set to rule on whether Haitians will
lose Temporary Protected Status, fear is emptying church pews. At St.
Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the Haitian
immigrants who brought life to the congregation are gone.
‘Soaked into the wood’: A visit to the birthplace of religious liberty
NPR: Religious
liberty was one of the founding pursuits of America. Rhode Island was
founded on the idea that the intermingling of religion and government
damages both church and state.
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The
chaplaincy is being formed to help serve those attached to the
Traditional Latin Mass, but does not change any policies, according to
the diocese. |
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The Senate is considering a House-passed bill that would designate Haiti for temporary protected status until 2029. |
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Catholics
are invited to pray, reflect, and act on religious discrimination,
education, immigration enforcement, Africa, gender ideology, political
and anti-religious violence, and Nicaragua.
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Coalition of churches and charities calls for ‘urgent action’ to end occupation of Palestine
Christian Aid warns of ‘dangerous gap between commitments and action’ at Bonn climate talks
Low-income families are going without food, Bishops warn peers
Analysis with Andrew Brown: Not selfish — and not really genes
Black music: Spirituality and sacred songs find a new voice
TV review: Hurricanes and Heatwaves, and Invasion of the Parakeets
[Editor’s Note: On June 16, Pope Leo XIV commented on the divisions between the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) and the Catholic Church, noting of the SSPX that “they refuse to accept certain fundamental elements of the Church, starting with various points of the Second Vatican Council.” Many SSPX sympathizers have resurrected favorite talking points about Vatican II — arguing that the teachings of the Council are not binding on the faithful due to its lack of solemn definitions and anathemas, its classification as a “pastoral council,” and the fact that none of the Council’s teachings were declared infallible. These arguments, however, ignore the clear teaching of popes and bishops on the magisterial weight of many of the Council’s teachings.
Perhaps the weight of the Council’s teachings were never taught more clearly than in Pope St. Paul VI in his general audience address of January 12, 1966. Unfortunately the Vatican website has only published this speech in Italian. What follows is an English translation of that address, originally published in volume 11, issue 2 of The Pope Speaks. It is being re-published here as a service to English-speaking Catholics.
The key teaching appears in the seventh paragraph: “Some people have asked what authority, what theological qualification the Council intended to attribute to its teaching, since it clearly avoided issuing solemn dogmatic definitions that would involve the infallibility of the magisterium. The answer is clear for anyone who recalls the Council declaration issued on March 6, 1964, and repeated on November 16, 1964.[4] In view of the pastoral nature of the Council, it avoided any extraordinary statement of dogmas that would be endowed with the note of infallibility, but it still provided its teaching with the authority of the supreme ordinary magisterium. This ordinary magisterium, which is so obviously official, has to be accepted with docility and sincerity by all the faithful, in accordance with the mind of the Council on the nature and aims of the individual documents.”—ML]
ZENIT Staff
Spiritual Testament of Cardinal Camillo Ruini
ZENIT Staff
A family is suing the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education for censoring the speech of their high school daughter who painted a rock on school grounds with the words “Freedom 1776” and “Live Like Kirk—John 11:25” after the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
ZENIT Staff
An Illinois law forces religious organizations to hire employees who violate their religious beliefs on reproductive issues like abortion.
Rafael Manuel Tovar
“We received accusations that I prefer not to comment on because they were very unjust, and we were dismissed in a very bad way,” Sister Paola stated. Then, “they stopped our work, investigated all our papers, which were in order, and shortly afterward expelled us.” On Tuesday, July 6, 28 nuns from three different Communities left the country.
Tim Daniels
The archdiocese alleges that the operation functioned for years and involved individuals with criminal backgrounds, including gang members and convicted offenders. The alleged scheme reportedly came to light after a recorded prison telephone conversation surfaced in which one participant allegedly described false accusations as a source of «easy money.»
Tim Daniels
According to the latest estimates released by the Society of Family Planning’s #WeCount project, approximately 1,126,760 abortions were performed in the formal U.S. healthcare system during 2025. That represents a 1.6 percent increase compared with 2024
Valentina di Giorgio
The project aims to convert an immense collection of documents, books, photographs, and historical records into a secure and searchable digital infrastructure capable of meeting the demands of modern information management.
ZENIT Staff
While Leo XIV raises the question of freedom in the age of data science, China’s National Religious Affairs Administration publishes an article about a new computing centre at Southeast University tasked with using generative artificial intelligence to uncover (and ban) any ideas that diverge from what the Party wants religions to say.
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The findings suggest that Pope Leo has largely succeeded in maintaining credibility among Catholics of different backgrounds, levels of religious practice, and political affiliations. In an era when both religious and political leaders frequently struggle to unite their constituencies, such a level of approval remains notable
ZENIT Staff
Signed by Brian Kemp on May 11, 2026, Senate Bill 542 creates a specific criminal offense for clergy who engage in sexual misconduct with individuals over whom they exercise pastoral, spiritual, or religious authority
ZENIT Staff
The controversy centers on International Football Organization endorsement of a match-specific Pride designation, a move that many football supporters view as incompatible with the organization’s long-standing claims that football should remain free from political, religious, and ideological messaging.
ZENIT Staff
The legislation, known as Bill C-9, has now cleared its final parliamentary hurdles after members of the House of Commons rejected a last-minute attempt to stop it. With Parliament’s approval secured, the bill is expected to receive Royal Assent and become law in the near future
ZENIT Staff
Address on the Occasion of the Angelus Prayer on Sunday, June 21, 2026
Jorge Enrique Mújica
The study, conducted by the Archdiocese of Chicago in collaboration with 20 dioceses across the United States, gathered 2,127 responses between February and May. Its findings challenge some long-standing assumptions about conversion in contemporary America
Fr. Edward McNamara
Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university.
“You’re Out of Here”
Pablum or Prophecy: on preaching the whole of the Catholic moral tradition to a congregation that has decided in advance which parts it will tolerate
Jun 22, 2026
When the full spectrum of Catholic teaching no longer informs homiletic reflection, the priest who attempts to preach prophetically finds himself in an unenviable position. He is not introducing novelty; he is recovering what has been quietly amputated. Yet he will invariably encounter the vocal wrath of a number of parishioners who are, in practice, more devoted to the narrow ethics of a particular administration than to the catholicity and breadth of the moral tradition the magisterium actually teaches. The grievance is rarely that the homilist has said something false. The grievance is that he has said something true that they had not been told was theirs to believe.
St. Luke’s is excited to host Joy Camp, June 22–26, in partnership with the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego and Trinity Methodist . Joy ...
