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Pope Leo XIV—Eight Months On
On May 8, 2025, Leo XIV was elected pope at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. With the death of his predecessor, a great many Catholics sighed a deep sigh of …
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Cardinal Parolin recalls 1200th anniversary of St. Ansgar’s evangelizing mission (Vatican News)
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, celebrated Mass in St. Ansgar’s Cathedral in Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital, in commemoration of the 1200th anniversary of the beginning of …
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Cardinal Parolin recalls 1200th anniversary of St. Ansgar’s evangelizing mission (Vatican News)
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, celebrated Mass in St. Ansgar’s Cathedral in Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital, in commemoration of the 1200th anniversary of the beginning of …
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Cardinal Fernández, DDF prefect, warns against lack of intellectual humility (CWN)
The prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith called for intellectual humility at the opening of the dicastery’s plenary session and warned that a lack of such …
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Pope, in audience on Vatican II, reflects on relationship between Sacred Scripture, Tradition (CWN)
Continuing his series of Wednesday general audiences on the Second Vatican Council and its documents, Pope Leo XIV reflected today on the relationship between Sacred Scripture and Tradition.
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, January 28, 2026
“The contemporary racial narrative is not history; it is retrospective propaganda”—Fr. Javier Olivera Ravasi, SE (The European Conservative): “The Catholic empires of Spain and Portugal legally recognized the humanity of …
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ Silence Spoke More Profoundly Than His Words
Domenico Ghirlandaio, “Madonna Enthroned With Angels and Four Saints” (Detail), 1486, Uffizi Gallery, Milan. COMMENTARY: After producing one of the greatest bodies of theological thought in history, St. Thomas Aquinas …
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Q&A with Bishop Seitz: Immigration crackdown shows ‘total disregard’ for human rights
“People are suffering, and the effects of that suffering will have an impact on our country too, for many years to come,” Bishop Mark Seitz told NCR in an interview …
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Disruption at a church is not the scandal. Injustice is.
“The question before us is not whether protest belongs in church, but whether the church still belongs to the Gospel it proclaims,” writes Kat Armas.
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Memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church
On another occasion, Jesus began to teach by the sea.A very large crowd gathered around him so that he got into a boat on the sea and sat down.And the whole …