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undefined Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Gran Canaria Stadium in Spain on June 11, 2026. COMMENTARY: As recent events have shown, the Holy Father, while not a trained mental health professional, exhibits what is called therapeutic listening. ... read more

A youth retreat taking place in Ontario, Canada, aims to help young Catholics graduating from high school and entering college, as well as students graduating from college and entering the workforce, stay committed to their faith during these critical transitions in their lives.Dead Man Walking is being hosted by Jesus Youth Ontario and will take ... read more

L’Osservatore Romano devoted a special section in its October 9 edition to stories of volunteers from around the world. ... read more

Pope Leo XIV encouraged the students of Rome’s pontifical universities not to “teach, study or undertake research solely for themselves, but together with others, for others and, above all, with and for the Lord.” ... read more

It is almost 30 years since my book Literary Converts was published by Harper Collins in the United Kingdom and subsequently by Ignatius Press in the United States. It was praised by A.N. Wilson as “an admirable book” and was listed by Conrad Black as one of his favorite books of 1999. It has sold ... read more

Founded in 1636 for the purpose of raising up young men for ministry in the Congregational Church, a tradition long since abandoned as hopelessly retrograde, Harvard University yet remains the oldest institution of higher learning in this country. It could well be the most expensive, too, current tuition being around a hundred thousand or so ... read more

The Danish Christian thinker Søren Kierkegaard envisioned birds as teachers worthy of our attention. What can birdwatching teach us about joy? ... read more

How do we mourn the people we have lost? Live with the wounds we've endured? Face the specters of mortality that haunt us? In "Night Side Songs," the Lazours reveal how much can be accomplished together, and in song. ... read more

Respect for life requires that science and technology should always be at the service of man and his integral development. Society as a whole must respect, defend, and promote the dignity of every human person, at every moment and in every condition of that person’s life. — St. John Paul II ... read more

The Roman Martyrology (2004) commemorates St. Daniel Comboni (1831-1881), a missionary in Central Africa who combined the ideal with the practical, drawing inspiration from the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. His missionaries, known as the Comboni Fathers or the Verona Missionaries, have 4,000 members working in countries all over the world. ... read more

Mike Faist, Christopher Abbott, and Florence Pugh star in the Netflix series "East of Eden". (Image: Netflix) It is clear that John Steinbeck wrote East of Eden to make readers confront biblical evil. Not the softened, therapeutic version that our culture craves and is being portrayed in the new Netflix miniseries, ... read more

Pope Leo XIV today named Archbishop Francesco Viola, O.F.M., the secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, as the new Archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica. ... read more

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops today begins its annual mental health novena. The novena begins on October 10, World Mental Health Day, and concludes on October 18, the Feast of St. Luke, patron saint of health care. ... read more

Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, condemned the federal government’s decision to livestream an execution by firing squad. “It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War’s decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan,” said ... read more

Former professional football coach Mike Ditka, a practicing Catholic who occasionally served as lector at the 7 a.m. team Mass on game-day Sundays during his decade leading the Chicago Bears, died Friday. He was 86.“Iron Mike,” as Ditka was known, had a famously explosive temper, which often boiled over on the sidelines and in postgame ... read more