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AI and Evangelization
undefinedA hard copy of Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, is held by an attendee at the document’s presentation on May 26, 2026, in the New Synod Hall at …
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Pope, in audience on Vatican II, upholds Council’s teaching on contraception and indissolubility of marriage (CWN)
Continuing his series of Wednesday general audiences on the Second Vatican Council and its documents, Pope Leo XIV devoted today’s audience (video) to the theme of “commitment to the family …
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Conference Encourages Black Catholic Men to Lead Families, Parishes, and Communities
undefinedA participant applauds during the Fr. Chester P. Smith National Black Catholic Men’s Conference, which took place Oct. 15–18, 2026, in Birmingham, Alabama. The national Black Catholic men’s conference took …
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On the private life and public testimony of Elisabeth Elliot
(Images: Amazon.com, Wikipedia) I first encountered Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) through her husband. I was a new student at a college in South Carolina when a friend pressed a copy of …
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Ahead of midterms, economic justice ranks above life issues for many Catholics, researcher says
High cost of living, inflation, and the job market topped life issues among Catholics polled ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections Mark Gray, CARA director at Georgetown University, speaks …
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Ahead of midterms, economic justice ranks above life issues for many Catholics, researcher says
The majority of Catholic voters cited the cost of living, inflation, and unemployment as higher priorities than life issues in polling ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, according to …
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DDF upholds automatic excommunication of deacon who left Church after son abused by priest (National Catholic Reporter)
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith upheld the automatic excommunication of a Louisiana deacon who left the Church after his son was abused by a priest. Deacon Scott …
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Death by Crucifix
It was as surreal a moment as any supposable. Redemptorist priest Fr. Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari, 53 years of age, was celebrating Mass in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church …
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Poison Ivies and the Pope
The alleged Cornell gang rape should clearly reveal to the American Church its current job: transforming the moral demography of a floundering nation. Pretty much every man in the American …
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AI and evangelization
During a Gaudium et Spes 22 podcast on the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas this past June, I said to my friend Larry Chapp, perhaps more flippantly than the subject warranted, that …