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Making sense of Donald Trump
President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House. (Credit: The White House) We live in unusual times, and Donald Trump is, to put it …
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The Movement to Topple Obergefell Is No Longer Fringe
A decade after the Supreme Court legalized same‑sex marriage in Obergefell, advocates in Ohio—the state where the case first took shape—are sounding the alarm. They warn that marriage equality is …
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Pope Leo: Images of saints remind us of universal call to holiness (Dicastery for Communication)
Presiding at the inauguration of a Marian mosaic and a statue of St. Rose of Lima in the Vatican Gardens (video), Pope Leo XIV said that “the two figures represented, …
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Reflecting on peace, Pope Leo says ‘greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion’ (CWN)
Addressing young people involved in a political innovation hackathon associated with the Focolare Movement, Pope Leo XIV reflected on peace as “a gift, a covenant and a promise” and said …
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How should Catholics protest Trumpism?
“We need to rekindle the better angels of our nature,” writes NCR’s Michael Sean Winters. “Reread Lincoln’s second inaugural address, with its magnificent call to national comity at a time …
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At a Mexico market, Baby Jesus prepped for Candlemas
The celebration marks 40 days after Jesus was born and was taken to the temple to be presented to God.
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Podcast: ‘Jim Lawson shows us how to lead with love and do no harm,’ says Emily Yellin
On this week’s episode of “The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast,” John Dear hosts writer Emily Yellin, coauthor of the new posthumous memoir by Civil Rights leader the Rev. James Lawson.
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Background: World Day for Consecrated Life (CWN)
February 2, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, is also the 30th World Day for Consecrated Life, a commemoration instituted by Pope St. John Paul II in 1997.
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Pope marks World Day for Consecrated Life, calls on religious to be prophets (CWN)
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica this evening (booklet, video) and called upon consecrated men and women “to be prophets—messengers who announce the presence of the Lord …
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Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
When the days were completed for their purificationaccording to the law of Moses,Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalemto present him to the Lord,just as it is written in …