Argentine Cathedral Wins Title of World’s Most Beautiful Church

Argentine Cathedral Wins Title of World’s Most Beautiful Church: Here Are the Other Finalists

Alma Recinas

The contest, launched by the account @documents_de_bolsillo, invited thousands of people to choose their favorite cathedrals through voting on the social media platform.

No More Fake Priests: Brazilian Archdiocese Issues Guidelines Regulating the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Communications

Enrique Villegas

The guidelines apply broadly to bishops, priests, deacons, ministers, pastoral workers, communicators and the wider Catholic community of the Archdiocese of Aracaju

Does a fire miraculously ignite at the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem? The matter ends up in court. A Greek court provides an answer

ZENIT Staff

A recent court ruling in Athens has brought an old controversy into sharp new focus, concluding—on the basis of testimony and evidence examined during litigation—that the flame is lit through human intervention rather than appearing through a supernatural event

After four years, the conciliar rite returns to the Syro-Malabar Cathedral in Ernakulam

ZENIT Staff

The agreement aimed at resolving the serious dispute over the liturgy within the Syro-Malabar Church was implemented for the first time yesterday at the Cathedral Basilica of St Mary in Kochi, which had become the epicentre of the tensions.

Days Before the Pope’s Visit to UNESCO, ZENIT Interviews the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the UN Institution

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The pattern of donations has been particularly striking. The average donation has hovered around 200 euros — approximately double the average individual donation in France in 2024 — and some contributions have exceeded 10,000 euros.

Vatican Unveils New “Synodal Proposals”: Laity to Participate in Bishops’ Ad Limina Visits and Binding Agreements Between Religious Orders and Bishops

ZENIT Staff

Shared criteria for discerning new institutes, a delegate for consecrated life in every diocese, and contracts or memoranda of understanding covering formation, gender equality, remuneration and the administration of assets. And an ad limina Visit prepared with the entire local Church, experienced as an “exchange of gifts” in a dialogue that is not “one-directional”, and subject to independent evaluation.

A Betrayal in Bronze: On the Return of the Confederate Memorial to Arlington

 

Our nation’s capital is a city of symbols. Its obelisks and colonnades, its statues and inscriptions, are meant to sign forth the best of our history — to be honorific of the men and women who shaped our national identity and who speak, in stone and bronze, of the best of who we are. Arlington National Cemetery is perhaps the most solemn of these symbols: row upon row of white markers standing sentinel over those who died to preserve, in Lincoln’s words, a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal — e pluribus unum, one out of many.

Coalition backs parental rights lawsuit over California transgender student policy

Indianapolis becomes seventh U.S. diocese to grant Mass dispensation to migrants fearing deportation

Dioceses issuing dispensation decrees cover a combined Catholic population of about 3.5 million people.

Colombian government to help finance restoration of earthquake-damaged basilica

The government has pledged to help finance repairs to the church, a part of Colombia’s cultural heritage and a popular pilgrimage site.

Coalition backs parental rights lawsuit over California transgender student policy

Dozens of organizations urged the court to protect parental rights and religious freedom as the state law remains blocked.

EWTN to air film on St. Peter Claver, slave of the slaves

“Saint Peter Claver — Slave of the Slaves” will air on EWTN on Sept. 9.

A Generation of Heretics

 

Written by Paul Chu

We are all familiar with the passage from the Book of Habakkuk that seems to have been a favorite of St. Paul (he cites it in three different letters – or four, for anyone who credits the Letter to the Hebrews to him): The righteous live by their faith. In Lumen Fidei,  Pope Francis’s first encyclical (while also in some respects Pope Benedict’s last), it is said of religious faith: “It is impossible to believe on our own.” Indeed, faith is ecclesial; it is held together, in community. Yet in a certain sense it is also impossible to believe anything on our own, at all.

Almost thirty years ago, Pope St. John Paul II wrote in Fides et Ratio:

[T]here are in the life of a human being many more truths which are simply believed than truths which are acquired by way of personal verification. Who, for instance, could assess critically the countless scientific findings upon which modern life is based? Who could personally examine flow of information which comes day after day from all parts of the world and which is generally accepted as true?

Grief, fury, conspiracy: Inside Turning Point USA after Charlie Kirk’s killing

Grief, fury, conspiracy: Inside Turning Point USA after Charlie Kirk’s killing
The Guardian: A year since his assassination, the movement Kirk started is reckoning with the void he left behind — and a revolution that eats its own

How post-9/11 Islamophobia sparked a Muslim political awakening in NYC
Gothamist: The post-9/11 wave of Islamophobia and government dragnet altered the trajectories of many careers

 

As Salvadoran TPS deadline nears, Hispanic Pentecostal leaders urge immigration protections
Religion News Service: The Hispanic Pentecostals were divided on whether the Trump administration’s immigration policies would impact how they vote in the future.

 

Jewish institutions see 33 percent jump in security spending after attacks*
The Washington Post: Synagogues and others paid more than $1 billion for security last year, amid a broader rise in such spending by religious groups.

 

For many spiritual seekers, author Wendell Berry was a fellow pilgrim and contrarian
The Associated Press: For Kentucky author Wendell Berry, the environmental crisis he lamented to such great effect in his essays, poetry and fiction was also a human crisis — a deeply spiritual one.

covenantchurchsd 09.06.2026

 

 We call this SoNoGo - South Park-North Park-Golden Hill & Our Mission: to see the baptized who live in SoNoGo worship in SoNoGo

Covenant Presbyterian Church

What is the Evangelical Presbyterian Church?

Covenant Church at 30th & Howard  is a Christian church in the tradition of the Protestant Reformation and allied with the EPC [The Evangelical Presbyterian Church] We believe the Scriptures to be the infallible Word of God and our final authority in faith and practice, and we find the historic creeds of the early church (the Apostles’ Creed and Nicene Creed) to be vital expressions of the most important tenets of the global church universal. When the EPC started in 1981, we determined that we would not disagree on the basic essentials of the Christian faith, but on anything that was not essential—such as the issue of ordaining women as officers or practicing charismatic gifts—we would give each other liberty. Above all, we committed ourselves to loving each other and not engaging in quarrels and strife. The result is that when we get together in our regional and national meetings, we spend most of our time in worship and fellowship and almost none in arguing with each other.

Why Write A Book Defending White Evangelicalism?

 

Sep 8, 2026

Jennifer Welch called white evangelical Christianity a cancer. Bonnie Kristian answered in The Washington Post and in her new book In Defense of Evangelicalism: A Response to Its Cultured Despisers. She wants civic friendship. She grants a persecution complex. She says she’s been a frequent critic of Donald Trump. Fair enough on the overbroad insult. But prophetic speech does not require a census of every person in the category. Jesus rebuked “the Pharisees” and “this generation” without meaning Nicodemus, Joseph of Arimathea, or every scribe in Israel. Category critique of a religious-political pattern is biblical. Person-as-cancer contempt is not. Those are different speech acts. Before white evangelicals police tone, the Fruit Test (Matthew 7:16) still applies. A movement that keeps producing strongman loyalty, cruelty toward the vulnerable, character hypocrisy, and truth decay does not mainly need a defense brief for its “cultured despisers.” It needs repentance. On immigration alone, the pattern is measurable: white evangelicals entered 2024 among the religious groups most supportive of Trump’s harsh immigration agenda, backed him at landslide levels, and remain the most supportive major faith constituency after the election—even as support softened elsewhere. Private kindness in the church basement does not cancel public political fruit. So the real question is not only whether Welch’s worst sentences failed the image-of-God test. They did. The question is why In Defense of Evangelicalism is the book this moment keeps demanding—while MAGA theology still runs so much of the witness.

No Kings: Vote Early

 

Mary’s birthday: The Church celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Mother Teresa documentary premieres in Kolkata on her feast day

“Mother Teresa – Prophet of Compassion” premiered Sept. 5 in Kolkata, India, drawing more than 200 people, including dozens of Missionaries of Charity (MC) nuns, and novices.

Leo XIV: Mary’s simple presence — and her Son within her — moves all of history

The pope celebrates Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Genazzano

Mary’s birthday: The Church celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Catholic Church celebrates the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Sept. 8, nine months after the Dec. 8 celebration of her immaculate conception.

The Irish trio bringing sacred music to the world

The Priests: The Irish trio bringing sacred music to the world

From singing together as students at a boarding school in the 1970s to being discovered by Sony in 2008 and making four albums, the priests have always sought to evangelize through sacred music.

Pope Leo XIV calls for peace in Ukraine after Russian attacks

The pontiff also reflected on the importance of fraternal correction among members of the Church.

The dangerous journey home for Christian communities in southern Lebanon

With the usual roads damaged or inaccessible, residents must travel in organized convoys through military checkpoints and Israeli-occupied territory, an ordeal some call “road to Calvary.”

The Catholic Church has a lot to say about Labor Day — why?

“All work, no matter what the work is, is essential,” said Father Sinclair Oubre, spiritual moderator of the Catholic Labor Network.