Pope Leo XIV and St. Augustine

The Blessed Virgin Mary: Sinless by grace, saved by grace, assumed by grace By Carl E. Olson on Aug 15, 2025 04:00 am On the Readings for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15, 2018 [...] Read in browser » A Hidden Thread: Sexuality, Longing, and Mercy By J. F. Colonna on Aug 14, 2025 09:17 pm In 2025, being a man attracted to men is no novelty. Society has largely embraced homosexuality, making personal stories about it seem mundane. Yet modern discourse complicates this acceptance. Conversations now emphasize fluidity, moving beyond [...] Read in browser » Six virtues of motherhood modelled by our Blessed Mother By Susan Ciancio on Aug 14, 2025 03:00 pm Feasts or solemnities that prompt us to reflect on the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary also serve as reminders of the sacredness of motherhood. As Catholics, we know that Mary, our immaculate spiritual mother, [...] Read in browser » Restoring what’s missing in Catholic education By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Aug 14, 2025 11:00 am “I sent my children to Catholic school from kindergarten through college, and now they don’t practice the faith.” It’s painful as an educator to hear these frequent reports from frustrated parents, yet unsurprising when, for [...] Read in browser » Contemplating our calling for labor, leisure and love By Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D. on Aug 13, 2025 07:00 pm Having spent nearly a quarter century teaching on college campuses, I have learned that eighteen to twenty-two-year-olds have forever wrestled with three existential questions: “Who created me?” “For what purpose?” “How do I know?” These [...] Read in browser » Our Lady of Fatima, ideology, and the Vatican’s homosexual crisis By Carrie Gress, Ph.D. on Aug 13, 2025 02:30 pm Both radical feminism and homosexuality have no use for healthy, ordered, loving men and women, parents, and children. [...] Read in browser » Meeting the world to convert the world By George Weigel on Aug 13, 2025 04:00 am In a June post at the website Where Peter Is, author Steven Millies, having ritually denounced the “senseless [Catholic] culture war quarrel” and taken another tiresome sideswipe at Bishop Robert Barron’s criticism of “beige Catholicism,” informed us that [...] Read in browser » Extra, Extra! News and views for Wednesday, August 13, 2025 By CWR Staff on Aug 13, 2025 03:00 am Anti-Religious Rhetoric – “Violent attacks against Christian churches remained significantly elevated in the final year of the Biden administration, the conservative Family Research Council reported this week.”Attacks on churches surged during Biden years, new study [...] Read in browser » Report states an average of 30 Christians murdered each day in Nigeria in 2025 By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Aug 12, 2025 10:49 pm A new report by the Catholic-inspired International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, asserts that at least 7,087 Christians were massacred across Nigeria in the first 220 days of 2025—a daily [...] Read in browser » Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince denounces the ‘collapse of humanity’ in Haitian society By Catholic News Agency on Aug 12, 2025 12:00 pm The Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince condemned the kidnapping of nine people from an orphanage on the outskirts of the capital on Sunday, Aug. 3. / Credit: Creative Photo Corner/Shutterstock ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 12, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Arc... [...] Read in browser » The Ghost of Synods Past: The Extraordinary Synod of 1969 By J. J. Ziegler on Aug 11, 2025 11:21 pm The First Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (1967), held two years after Pope St. Paul VI instituted the Synod of Bishops, was a synod of consequence that still influences the Church today through the canonical legislation, [...] Read in browser » Opinion: Is there a white flag over New Orleans? By Michael J. Mazza on Aug 11, 2025 07:14 pm On January 8, 1815, General Andrew Jackson led his American troops to an unlikely victory over the British in the famous Battle of New Orleans. Two weeks later, General Jackson joined thousands of others at [...] Read in browser » A look at the reasons behind recent abortion clinic closures By Anne Hendershott on Aug 11, 2025 11:37 am While Republican pro-life policies are most often blamed for—or credited with—the shuttering of 37 Planned Parenthood abortion clinics since January 2025, the reasons for the closures are more complex than defunding abortion through H. R. 271: The Defund Planned [...] Read in browser » The Living Fire: Bringing contemporary Catholic poetry to teachers and students By Christina Baker on Aug 10, 2025 11:54 pm Poetry is a human exercise and throughout human history has been one method people have used to connect to others and to God. Though readership of poetry in the United States has grown in recent [...] Read in browser » The battle over religious education in Poland By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D. on Aug 10, 2025 10:52 am Karol Nawrocki of the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party assumed the presidency of Poland on August 6. His inauguration provides two sharp contrasts: between himself and the assorted leftists in Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s [...] Read in browser » The current political reality and the reset we need By James Kalb on Aug 09, 2025 11:49 pm Does an American political tradition still exist? It seems it must. After all, Americans have been carrying on politics together for hundreds of years. And when people do things together for such a long time, [...] Read in browser » Do we have vocations to marriage and singleness? By David Paul Deavel on Aug 09, 2025 05:24 pm For decades now there has been a concerted effort by many Catholics to consider the concept of vocation in broader terms than merely the calling to priesthood, diaconate, and forms of consecrated virginity lived out [...] Read in browser » “What is the mark of a Christian?” By Carl E. Olson on Aug 09, 2025 11:00 am Readings: • Wis 18:6-9 • Ps 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 • Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 • Lk 12:32-48 “What is the mark of a Christian?” asked St. Basil in his work, Moralia, which is a guide to [...] Read in browser » Vale Bishop Peter J. Elliott (1943-2025) By Tracey Rowland on Aug 08, 2025 07:57 pm Editor’s note: Bishop Emeritus Peter John Elliott of Melbourne died this past Wednesday, August 6th, at Box Hill Hospital at the age of 81. Bishop Elliott was a convert to the Catholic Church, and was [...] Read in browser » St. Augustine’s impact on the first 3 months of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate By Catholic News Agency on Aug 08, 2025 06:53 pm Pope Leo XIV and St. Augustine. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News and Public Domain ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 8, 2025 / 15:53 pm (CNA). Today marks three months since Pope Leo XIV first appeared on the central balcony of the Vatican basilica after ... [...] Read in browser » Newman on capital punishment By Dr. Edward Feser on Aug 08, 2025 04:55 pm It was announced last week that Pope Leo XIV will be declaring St. John Henry Newman to be a Doctor of the Church. As the Catholic Encyclopedia notes, the Church proclaims someone to be a Doctor on [...] Read in browser »