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NCR’s Michael Sean Winters would be surprised if the Democrats pick up the Texas Senate seat in November.

“Christian hope is nothing like optimism or the unfounded conviction that ‘everything will work out fine,’ ” writes Daniel P. Horan.

“Although the Catholic Church has had a pacifist approach to international relations since the Second World War, it still recognizes that war can be waged lawfully if certain conditions are …

The Leo Chronicles: “Why start a fire you can’t put out?” the pope asks.

A new book suggests that Cardinal Robert Prevost’s path to the papacy was shaped by fragile alliances and small human moments that influenced perceptions inside the Sistine Chapel and produced …

Jesus said to the Pharisees:“There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linenand dined sumptuously each day.And lying at his door was a poor man named …

The thought expressed in today’s first reading in Jeremias is one of the basic themes of the great prophets; it is to be found also in the Psalms (particularly Ps …