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‘In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton’ book cover Through paradox and poetry, G. K. Chesterton reveals how the ordinary world points beyond itself to eternal truths. ... read more

In a papal message to the Fédération des Médias Catholiques (Federation of Catholic Media), Cardinal Pietro Parolin encouraged media professionals to be voices of reconciliation in a polarized world. ... read more

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity, appealed for aid for Ukraine. “One cannot remain indifferent to pain, to suffering—we must act,” he said, “because the risk, as Pope Leo says, is that of the ‘globalization of impotence,’ even more serious than the globalization of indifference.” Vatican ... read more

Pope Leo XIV received Masoud Barzani, the former president of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region, which provided hospitality to an estimated 100,000 Iraqi Christians who fled the advance of the Islamic State in 2014. ... read more

At the conclusion of his January 21 general audience, Pope Leo XIV lamented that “war is back in fashion.” ... read more

Popperfoto Aerial view of Hiroshima in June 1946, 10 months after the bombing COMMENTARY: The intentional taking of an innocent life is always gravely wrong — in war or in peace — and Hiroshima forces us to confront that truth. ... read more

Rather than embrace ongoing, lifelong conversion in faith and knowledge, some politicians and religious leaders choose to stunt their moral and intellectual growth, writes Daniel Horan. ... read more

There are so many congregations putting laypeople in executive positions that the Leadership Conference of Women Religious has created a network where they can experience some formation and find each other for mutual support. ... read more

In Nuuk, Greenland's capital, a Catholic community of about 300 people — many of them Filipino immigrants — is following international debate over the future of their home with concern, detachment and quiet attention. ... read more

Five American prelates joined the public discussion of foreign policy in recent days. Gudziak, Broglio, Cupich, McElroy and Tobin remind us of what remains visible beneath the new narratives. ... read more

An investigation approved by the Vatican concluded that Fr. Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep was killed by two Japanese deserters seeking revenge after Japan's defeat in World War II.  ... read more

"There are the countless examples of ordinary Catholics who work hard each day to live out the Gospel's call to care for the least of these," writes NCR's Michael J. O'Loughlin. ... read more

Some cardinals and faithful who have a devotion to the traditional Roman rite have expressed concern that the liturgy appears to be sidelined in the extraordinary consistory currently underway at the Vatican after the cardinals voted to give priority to other issues on the agenda. In his opening address to the consistory yesterday ... read more

Reviving a custom discontinued by Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV was presented with two lambs on the memorial of St. Agnes (video). ... read more

Continuing his series of Wednesday general audiences on the Second Vatican Council and its documents, Pope Leo XIV emphasized that Jesus Christ reveals God the Father. ... read more