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As technology reshapes medicine, Pope Leo XIV has offered a thoughtful message to participants in the Pontifical Academy for Life’s International Congress, AI and Medicine: The Challenge of Human Dignity. His remarks, delivered on November 7, 2025, address the ethical crossroads between artificial intelligence and the care of the human person. Pope Leo situates this Read More…

Pope Leo calls for human-centered AI in medicine

Known as the detente, a small emblem of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is cherished by many believers as a spiritual shield. Though it may look like a simple piece of embroidered fabric, its story carries centuries of faith, devotion, and trust in divine protection. According to Ana Palacios’ article for COPE, its origins trace Read More…

This “spiritual shield” shows protection from the Sacred Heart

At the end of the day on November 11, 2025, Leo XIV visited the Benedictine church of St. Anselm on the Aventine Hill in Rome, where he celebrated Mass for the 125th anniversary of the building’s dedication. By participating in this anniversary, the Pope honored his predecessor Leo XIII, whose name he took. That Italian Read More…

Leo XIV visits Church of St. Anselm, linked with Leo XIII

A new English translation of the Bible will be called the “Catholic American Bible” and will be available starting on Ash Wednesday 2027, Bishop Steven Lopes said on Tuesday, November 11. Bishop Lopes, the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Divine Worship, made the announcement during the conference’s Plenary Assembly Read More…

New English Bible translation to be called “Catholic American Bible”

Cardinal Dominik Duka, Archbishop Emeritus of Prague, died at around 3 a.m. on November 4, 2025. He passed away at the Central Military Hospital in the Czech capital, according to the Polish page of Vatican News, the official news portal of the Holy See. Thus, only a few weeks after the death of Romanian Cardinal Read More…

Remembering Cardinal Dominik Duka, who opposed Communism

On November 13, the feast of the patron saint of immigrants — Mother Frances Cabrini — some 50 events around the country will show Catholics supporting immigrants. These events are a follow up to around 60 similar events that took place on October 22. The wave is part of the “One Church, One Family” initiative, Read More…

Catholics use Cabrini feast for public witness on immigration

I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know him or have forgotten Him. — Quotation popularly attributed to Saint Frances Cabrini What [...]

The members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued a statement condemning mass deportations and what they called a “climate of fear” regarding immigration enforcement efforts. “We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement,” Read More…

U.S. bishops issue “Special Message” on immigration

The vast majority of bishops see their priests as potential liabilities, lawsuits waiting to happen, and they treat their priests accordingly.