Reverence for motherhood begins with charity
By Susan Ciancio on May 29, 2026 04:00 amOur Blessed Mother constantly looks out for us, even when we aren’t thinking about her. I was reminded of this fact recently when I chanced upon Mary under the title of Our Lady of Charity. [...]
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A profound reflection on suffering and moving account of conversion
By Casey Chalk on May 28, 2026 04:00 pmMy father was a physical therapist. His funeral was well attended, with several hundred people, including a significant percentage of whom I had never met, his patients over thirty-five years practicing in our native northern [...]
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Leo XIV: Don’t water down Christianity
By Victoria Cardiel on May 28, 2026 10:12 amThe pontiff said the Church must respond to religious indifference not by softening the Gospel’s demands but by offering credible witness to Christ. [...]
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Catholic Colorado: The Semiquincentennial in the Centennial State
By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on May 28, 2026 04:00 amColorado celebrates its own 150th anniversary this year, as the rest of the country marks 250 years since the founding of the United States. The two milestones bear an interesting connection. In the very year [...]
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Why I think Magnifica Humanitas is a pointed and prophetic gut punch
By Larry Chapp on May 27, 2026 11:03 pmPope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is a pointed and prophetic gut punch. Don’t be fooled by the usual “ecclesial-speak” argot of the text. When read carefully and closely, what emerges is a blunt, and even [...]
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The peace we can make
By George Weigel on May 27, 2026 04:19 amRepetition, it’s said, can be the mother of learning. So, in light of recent Catholic debates about the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and elsewhere, permit me to reprise, with slight adjustments, parts [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, May 27, 2026
By CWR Staff on May 27, 2026 03:00 amThe Wine Is Jesus’ Blood (Catholic Answers): Christ’s blood at the Last Supper could still be present in the chalice even if it didn’t yet have the status of being the ‘blood of the covenant,’ [...]
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Magnifica Humanitas: The Human Person Between Glory and Fragility
By Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. on May 26, 2026 05:54 pmThere are many newsworthy dimensions to Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. If you’ve followed the Holy Father’s homilies, catecheses, and public addresses, the broad direction of the document is not surprising. Even so, [...]
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The choice: Rebuild the tower of Babel or rebuild the walls of Jerusalem
By Dale Ahlquist on May 26, 2026 05:01 pmThe first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (“On Safeguarding The Human Person In The Time Of Artificial Intelligence”) should of course be of interest to everyone. But it is of special interest to [...]
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Toward an “ecology of communication” in Magnifica Humanitas
By Kenneth Craycraft on May 26, 2026 01:16 pmInitial reactions to Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, are necessarily brief, and most have tried to focus on one or two particular aspects of the encyclical. While it is helpful to consider a general [...]
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After the Spike ranges from frustrating and flawed to commendable and valuable
By Sandra Miesel on May 25, 2026 04:00 pmAfter the Spike is a frustrating book. It sounds the alarm on a real contemporary problem—the worldwide decline in birthrates that may be sending whole societies, even humanity itself, into a demographic death spiral. The [...]
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Pope Leo unveils his encyclical: AI has ‘even greater consequences’ than Industrial Revolution
By Victoria Cardiel on May 25, 2026 09:52 amThe pope thanked Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah for his presence at the presentation: “What a great sign of hope it is that with our differences we can listen to one another.” [...]
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Magnifica Humanitas: Pope invokes justice to combat ‘anti-human vision’ in AI
By Hannah Brockhaus on May 25, 2026 04:30 amPublished Monday, the pope’s new encyclical warns of a “culture of power” fueled by the digital revolution and artificial intelligence. [...]
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Men such as these: A Memorial Day reflection
By George Weigel on May 25, 2026 04:00 amIt was the Psalms, the Hebrew prophets, and the Gospels that inspired in these men a life-sustaining hope. [..]
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The Virgin Mary’s Message to Nigeria
By Muji Kaiser on May 24, 2026 03:00 pmThe persecution of Christians currently taking place in Nigeria was foretold by the Blessed Virgin Mary in a church-approved apparition that many have never heard of. In 1992, the Virgin Mary appeared to a young [...]
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Pentecost and the priesthood
By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on May 24, 2026 08:00 amEditor’s note: The following homily was preached on Pentecost Sunday, May 24, 2026, at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City. Wind, fire, thunder, and lightning. The Sacred Scriptures are replete with [...]
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Pentecost, the Church, and the 120 in the Upper Room
By Stephen K. Ray on May 24, 2026 03:00 amPentecost is affectionately referred to as the “birthday of the Church”. There is a clue in the biblical account of the gathering in the Upper Room (Acts 1:12ff) that helps us in better understanding the [...]
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Sex and Catholic Social Teaching
By Helen M. Alvaré on May 23, 2026 02:07 pmAs someone who has long labored in the service of the Catholic Church’s teachings on fraught sexual expression topics, I think I understand Pope Leo XIV’s recent remarks on Catholic sexual morality in response to [...]
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At Pentecost, the Spirit of Truth reversed the Tower of Babel
By Carl E. Olson on May 23, 2026 11:00 amReadings: • Acts 2:1-12 • Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 • 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Gal 5:16-25 • Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15 “Heavenly King, Comforter, Spirit of Truth, who are everywhere [...]
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On the eternal allure of Rome
By David G. Bonagura, Jr. on May 23, 2026 10:48 amAs Peter preached the first sermon on Pentecost, he could hardly have imagined that he was shaping a Catholicism—a new way of life in Christ for all people—that would become Roman. There was nothing Roman [...]
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Czech cardinal reflects on martyrs under communism ahead of priest beatifications
By Tyler Arnold on May 22, 2026 02:13 pmThe two priests were imprisoned and executed by the Czechoslovak communist regime because of its hatred of the Catholic faith, according to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. [...]
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