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Portugal’s president describes Pope Leo as ‘intelligent,’ ‘rational’ following meeting (CWN)
Portugal’s president described Pope Leo XIV as “superiorly intelligent” and “very rational” following a 25-minute audience on February 2.
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Archbishop Gallagher concludes journey to Slovakia, hails Church-state relations (CWN)
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, concluded a three-day visit to Slovakia commemorating the 25th anniversary of the basic agreement, or …
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Telling Our Story
In Wake Up Dead Man, the current installment of an ongoing murder mystery series called Knives Out, starring Daniel Craig as the cynical Inspector Benoit Blanc, the body of a …
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Queer theology can help church recover Gospel roots
Queer experience has a prophetic voice that challenges the church to reckon with its failures, confront its complicity and recover a faithfulness rooted not in the preservation of power but …
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With assisted suicide law, Illinois surrenders to culture of death
A law like the “End-of-Life Options Act,” which offers death while leaving loneliness, poverty and abandonment untouched, offers not dignity, but an excuse for neglect, writes Passionist Fr. Enzo Del …
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An order of spring rolls for Cardinal Prevost, please
Before he became pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago would stop at Rome’s Kungfu Express for his go-to meal. Restaurant owner LinNing Tang recalls the future Pope Leo XIV as …
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Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
When Jesus had crossed again in the boatto the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea.One of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came …
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St. Sophronius—Our candles … show how bright our souls should be when we go to meet Christ.
Our candles … show how bright our souls should be when we go to meet Christ. — St. Sophronius
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Feb. 3 Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr; St. Ansgar, Bishop , Opt. Mem.
The Universal Calendar offers two saints, Blaise and Ansgar, for separate celebration as Optional Memorial. St. Blaise (or Blase) (d. 320) enjoyed widespread veneration in the Eastern and Western Churches …
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Clerical sexual abuse victim shares story with Pope Leo XIV: ‘I didn’t hold back’
“I told him about the abuse,” David Ryan said. “I did get a feeling of being listened to and being understood.” David Ryan, a victim of clerical sexual abuse as …