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When it comes to taking care of God’s creation, Pope Leo XIV called for a shift from “data” and “discourse” to “caring” and “conversion” “We must shift from collecting data to caring; and from environmental discourse to an ecological conversion that transforms both personal and communal lifestyles,” he said in a meeting held in the Read More…

Pope, Schwarzenegger consider “action heroes” of environment

The exchange that is moving so many this week — Pope Leo XIV answering a 21-year-old Roman medical student who asked, “What does the future hold for us?” — belongs to a very deliberate pastoral experiment. The reply appears in Piazza San Pietro, the monthly magazine of St. Peter’s Basilica, a project launched in late Read More…

Pope Leo’s mailbox: Words of hope for a future doctor

Christians have lived in Gaza for centuries, dating back to the earliest times of the Church. The city of Gaza is mentioned in the New Testament in Acts. Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” In Read More…

4 Catholic saints who lived and died in Gaza

In 2023 (the most recent year for which data is available), there were a total of 619,775 people who entered the Catholic Church in the United States in the country’s 178 Latin-rite dioceses, according to the 2024 edition of The Official Catholic Directory. While the vast majority — 480,905 — of those new Catholics were Read More…

Here are the American dioceses with the most Catholic converts

On September 30, Senator Dick Durbin announced that he is declining a “Lifetime Achievement Award” offered to him by the Archdiocese of Chicago. The heated controversy surrounding the episode illustrates two related crises in American [...]

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Italian Episcopal Conference will work together to establish a hospital in Gaza, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and Archbishop Giuseppe Baturi announced on Tuesday, September 30. The Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) is the episcopal conference for Italy’s Catholic bishops. Archbishop Baturi is the current secretary general of the CEI and Read More…

Italian bishops to help bring a hospital to Gaza

The politicization of health, which emerged during the COVID-19 regime to manipulate public perception, has taken a new form with recent warnings suggesting a link between Tylenol and autism.

Popes make their mark on history through their words and actions, but also through the great texts that structure their magisterium. For the time being, no document of this type has yet been officially announced by Pope Leo XIV. However, before his death, Francis was working on an apostolic exhortation devoted to the poor and, Read More…

What will Pope Leo XIV’s first major text tell us about him?

While older Christian leaders act as if they're still in the 70's, young Christians around the world are taking up the sign of the Cross.

When it comes to the material world, it is easy to prove the existence of something that can be seen, felt, or smelled. All you have to do is show a person that thing, and its existence is “proven.” On the other hand, immaterial things are much more difficult to “prove” from a sensory standpoint. Read More…

Can you prove the existence of Guardian Angels?