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Friday, October 9, 2026
Catholic Social Thought: An Election Primer
What kind of pontiff was Pope Pius XII?
By Dawn Beutner on Oct 08, 2026 08:00 pmThe world seems to be divided into two camps over Pope Pius XII. Was he an uncaring anti-Semite, an indecisive coward, and a leader so detached from the reality of World War II that he [...]
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Pregnant at 43: How the unexpected led a mom to choose life (and make a movie)
By Susan Ciancio on Oct 08, 2026 05:53 pmWhen you hear about unintended or surprise pregnancies, the demographic that likely pops into your head is young people, perhaps those 25 and under. But a new film, set for release on October 16, highlights [...]
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Catholic Social Thought: An Election Primer
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Oct 08, 2026 04:00 amThe Church has always taught that the Gospel bears social implications, shaping how Christians live in the world. Catholic Social Teaching (CST), however, developed only when the fabric of Christendom — the legacy of Christian [...]
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Blessed Fulton Sheen’s Holy Hour and the new film “Adore Him”
By Carl Kozlowski on Oct 07, 2026 11:26 pmGrowing up as a cousin of Blessed Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Rosemarie Holliger Costello had an up-close look at the powerful love he had for the Eucharist. Throughout the 60 years—from the time he became [...]
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A note about technical issues with the CWR site
By Carl E. Olson on Oct 07, 2026 11:39 amDear Reader, You have undoubtedly noticed that the Catholic World Report site has been difficult to access for several days. It has been timing out and not responsive for long stretches. For various reasons, it [...]
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Pope warns that ‘watering down’ Christianity’s demands won’t make it more attractive
By Victoria Cardiel on Oct 07, 2026 08:11 amLeo also recalled the Oct. 7 liturgical memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary and emphasized the importance of this traditional Marian prayer. [...]
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Reflections on a diamond jubilee
By George Weigel on Oct 07, 2026 04:00 amI am not usually given to apocalypticism, but I think I got the imagery exactly right when, in 2001, I called my brother and described the ruins left by the demolition of Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium [...]
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The Pauline Leo
By Fr. Robert P. Imbelli on Oct 06, 2026 11:27 pmPope Leo’s fine homilies and speeches during his recent apostolic journey to France have been amply applauded and extensively commented upon. His homilies at the Place de la Concorde and at Lourdes, his addresses to [...]
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The heavenly charism of Saint Bruno and the Carthusians
By Dawn Beutner on Oct 06, 2026 04:00 amEvery religious order has its own unique charism. While Saint Teresa of Calcutta’s Missionaries of Charity serve the poorest of the poor, Saint Dominic’s Order of Preachers preach God’s word. Like every flower in God’s [...]
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The Ninth Circuit Court tests the rights of religious employers
By Charles J. Russo on Oct 06, 2026 01:41 amA significant question involving religious freedom is whether Union Gospel Mission of Yakima, Washington—a Christian ministry that operates a homeless shelter, health clinics, meal services, and programs to help recovering addicts—can hire individuals who share [...]
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The durability of wokeness
By James Kalb on Oct 05, 2026 04:00 amIn 2020, I wrote a column about wokeness, the view that group inequalities are intolerable evils, caused solely by institutionalized bigotry, that must urgently be extirpated. I said that its ambition and moralism allow no [...]
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Hundreds attend first-ever Sheen Awards, honoring prominent Catholic media figures
By John Tuttle on Oct 04, 2026 02:00 pmPEORIA, Illinois – The inaugural Sheen Awards Gala was held at the Peoria Civic Center on Sept. 25, the day after Fulton Sheen’s beatification. The first in what is projected to be an annual awards [...]
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Pope Leo XIV: ‘The charism of St. Francis continues to bear fruit even today’
By Marco Mancini on Oct 04, 2026 08:42 amThe pontiff marks the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s death and asks prayers that peoples may be freed from “the scourge of war.” [...]
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Pope Leo XIV and Europe
By Filip Mazurczak on Oct 03, 2026 07:46 pmDuring the 2013 conclave, many European cardinal electors likely voted for Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentinian-born son of an Italian immigrant, with the hope that he would bridge Europe, the traditional heartland of the Church, [...]
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“God is in charge of management; I just work in sales.”
By Carl E. Olson on Oct 03, 2026 11:00 amOn the Readings for Sunday, October 8, 2017 [...]
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African priests express anxiety as vocations boom turns to a grey wave
By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Oct 03, 2026 12:09 amYoung African priests are expressing anxiety about their retirement years. The absence of sustainable care infrastructure across the continent has often forced retired clergy into the indignity of relying on charity to survive. The priests [...]
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10 years after Amoris Laetitia, bishops to discuss challenges of families at the Vatican
By Victoria Cardiel on Oct 02, 2026 12:00 pmVatican officials said the weeklong meeting is neither a synod, nor an evaluation of Amoris Laetitia. [...]
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Can Europe Erase a Baptism? A Legal Battle Puts Church Autonomy to the Test
Dominican Superior General Establishes a Study Group on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies
ZENIT Staff
The Master of the Order has appointed eight friars to a Study Group on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies to examine their implications for Dominican life, preaching and formation, with human dignity and the common good guiding its work.
What is the Church’s mission in the contemporary world? Pope Leo XIV answers
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Pope’s General Audience, October 7, 2026, on the Church’s Mission in the Contemporary World
What kind of Church do people encounter when they are at their most vulnerable? Leo XIV opens the conference on Amoris Laetitia by placing vulnerability at the center
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Remarks by the Pope at the beginning of the meeting with the leaders of the Eastern Churches and the presidents of the episcopal conferences, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of “Amoris laetitia”
Can Europe Erase a Baptism? A Legal Battle Puts Church Autonomy to the Test
Joachin Meisner Hertz
The case, known as Bisdom Gent, is now before the Court of Justice of the European Union. It follows an opinion issued on October 1 by Advocate General Laila Medina, who concluded that European data-protection law can, in principle, give a baptized person the right to have personal information removed from a baptismal register when the church cannot demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for retaining it.
USA: Teen wrestler takes her Title IX fight to SCOTUS following sexual assault by male opponent
ZENIT Staff
A male wrestler sexually assaulted teenage female wrestler Kallie Keeler in December 2025 during a high school girls’ wrestling tournament, an event sponsored by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association. Keeler and her mother are suing state officials after those officials directed Keeler to take the mat without telling anyone that she was about to wrestle a male and after the officials waited 53 days to report the sexual assault to law enforcement, in violation of a mandatory 48-hour reporting law.
Jerusalem: Mamilla Pool and Cemetery at Risk
ZENIT Staff
The restoration project for the Mamilla Pool, located west of Jerusalem’s Old City, is reigniting controversy; it risks obliterating the winter pool and the graves of the ancient Islamic cemetery, sites already eroded over the decades by parks, roads, parking lots, and a museum.
Vatican Commission on Combating Abuse Examines Protection Within Religious Communities and Makes Further Progress
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The Commission’s members approved by referendum the Instrumentum laboris for the Fourth Annual Report, due for publication in 2027 and emphasised that the meaningful participation of victims and survivors in the Annual Report process remains essential to understanding institutional responses to abuse and shaping policies capable of preventing its recurrence.
On De-Radicalizing Aspects of Education and on the Responsibility to Safeguard Revelation and the Memory of the Heart: Leo XIV to the Pontifical Universities
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Homily by the Holy Father at the Holy Mass marking the opening of the academic year at the Pontifical Universities
Pope Francis on Forming Consciences, Not Replacing Them
Pope Leo XIV has called the heads of the Eastern Churches and the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences to the Vatican from October 7 to 14 for a meeting titled “Ten Years after Amoris Laetitia: Proclaiming the Gospel with Families Today.” Before the bishops trade notes on what is working, it is worth remembering where Pope Francis said, in that 2016 apostolic exhortation, the Church itself had gone wrong.
We also need to be humble and realistic, acknowledging that at times the way we present our Christian beliefs and treat other people has helped contribute to today’s problematic situation. We need a healthy dose of self-criticism. Then too, we often present marriage in such a way that its unitive meaning, its call to grow in love and its ideal of mutual assistance are overshadowed by an almost exclusive insistence on the duty of procreation. Nor have we always provided solid guidance to young married couples, understanding their timetables, their way of thinking and their concrete concerns. At times we have also proposed a far too abstract and almost artificial theological ideal of marriage, far removed from the concrete situations and practical possibilities of real families. This excessive idealization, especially when we have failed to inspire trust in God’s grace, has not helped to make marriage more desirable and attractive, but quite the opposite.
We have long thought that simply by stressing doctrinal, bioethical and moral issues, without encouraging openness to grace, we were providing sufficient support to families, strengthening the marriage bond and giving meaning to marital life. We find it difficult to present marriage more as a dynamic path to personal development and fulfilment than as a lifelong burden. We also find it hard to make room for the consciences of the faithful, who very often respond as best they can to the Gospel amid their limitations, and are capable of carrying out their own discernment in complex situations. We have been called to form consciences, not to replace them.
— Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia, nos. 36–37, March 19, 2016
Morning Keys: Cardinal Tagle elected dean of cardinals
Here are today’s key Catholic stories, led by this morning’s news that Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has been elected dean of the College of Cardinals, succeeding Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re. Also at the top: Pope Leo XIV’s homily opening the academic year at Rome’s pontifical universities, where he warned of “false teachers who exploit the religious sentiments of many believers” and urged students and professors to “guard your hearts,” and day two of the Amoris Laetitia meeting. Today the Church also keeps its first Oct. 9 memorial of St. John Henry Newman on the universal calendar, nearly a year after Leo named him a Doctor of the Church. New at Where Peter Is: Rodrigo Guerra’s 2017 study “Understanding Amoris Laetitia,” now translated into English.
Today’s Mass readings (USCCB) · Saint of the day (Vatican News): St. John Henry Newman
Archbishop of Dijon, France, asks for prayers for priest who died by suicide
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Multiple religious objectors are suing the state over its newly instituted assisted suicide regime. |
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The exorcists discussed the importance of sacred music and the “essential” place of the Virgin Mary’s intercession in exorcisms. |
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“Let us entrust him to the merciful love of the Lord,” the archbishop wrote in a letter to the faithful. “Let us pray for his parishioners, shocked by this unexpected news.” |
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The bishops will serve one year as chair-elect and assume the positions in the fall of 2027. |
Three years after Oct. 7, American Jews are finding new ways to connect
Haitian migrants in Florida turn to Catholic sister as deportation fears grow
Global Sisters Report: Amid uncertainty, Haitians in Immokalee, Florida, seek advice, counsel and support from Sister Judy Dohner, who speaks Haitian Creole and spent 16 years in Haiti.
Three years after Oct. 7, American Jews are finding new ways to connect – but many still struggle to belong
Haaretz: A study finds four out of 10 American Jews have found new ways to engage with Jewish life. But for many, politics emerged as a leading obstacle to engagement amid communal fractures over Israel and Zionism.
The Guardian: Stop talking about the US ‘Jewish vote.’ It’s not that simple
The shrinking God of Jim Bakker*
Washington Post: The writer Annie Dillard understood what the disgraced TV preacher never would.
Go ahead and livestream that firing squad execution!
Baptist News Global: I’m glad Pete Hegseth wants to make a public spectacle out of this execution because the whole world needs to comprehend what monsters he and his boss, Donald Trump, are, writes BNG publisher Mark Wingfield.
Nick Saban opens up about religion, dealing with ego: ‘How do you pray?’*
AL.com: During an appearance “This Past Weekend with Theo Von,” the ESPN analyst was asked about dealing with players and how he kept his ego in check. The 74-year-old looked inward and cited religion.
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