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Shabbat or Not Shabbat
One of the more disheartening aspects of last week’s attempted defenestration of the Heritage Foundation and its leader, Kevin Roberts, was what happened to a young Catholic at the quite …
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Yes, Ghosts Exist: An Interview With Catholic Apologist Jimmy Akin…
Jimmy Akin is the senior apologist at Catholic Answers, with more than 30 years of experience defending and explaining the faith, and co-host of the Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World podcast. …
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Pope warns against ‘premature, unlimited, and unsupervised digital access’ for the young (Dicastery for Communication)
Addressing participants in a meeting organized by the Foundation for the Study and Research on Childhood and Adolescence, Pope Leo XIV warned against granting “premature, unlimited, and unsupervised digital access” …
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Abducted Haitian priest freed (L’Osservatore Romano (Italian))
Father Jean Julien Ladouceur, the national director of the Haitian episcopal conference’s Commission for Catholic Education, was freed earlier this week, the Vatican newspaper reported. Father Ladouceur and three of …
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Papal message: Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum is relevant today (Dicastery for Communication (Spanish))
In a message to participants in the 31st Argentine Industrial Conference, Pope Leo XIV paid recalled the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, in which Pope Leo XIII “denounced the unjust conditions …
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Pope Leo: Mystical phenomena are not indispensable for holiness (Dicastery for Communication (Italian))
Addressing participants in a conference organized by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Pope Leo XIV said that extraordinary mystical phenomena are not “indispensable conditions for recognizing holiness,” which …
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Apostleship of the Sea established as canonical legal entity (Vatican News)
In an Italian-language chirograph dated November 6 and released November 13, Pope Leo XIV established the Apostleship of the Sea as a canonical legal entity to supervise the Opus Apostolatus …
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Antisemitism accusations plagued Kevin Roberts’ political heroes too
Facing backlash over his defense of Tucker Carlson’s interview with white Christian nationalist Nick Fuentes, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts follows in the footsteps of his two greatest political heroes.
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Faith leaders confront the world’s fossil fuel hypocrisy at COP30
As world leaders gather in Belém, Brazil, for the COP30 climate summit, faith leaders call out the “tragic, sinful gap between the call to care for creation and the failure …
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Vatican newspaper editor critiques Palantir Technologies’ meritocracy fellowship (L’Osservatore Romano (Italian))
Andrea Monda, the director of L’Osservatore Romano, has written an op-ed criticizing the Meritocracy Fellowship of the software company Palantir Technologies. Recalling the palantir of J.R.R. Tolkien’s literature, Monda critiqued …