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Father Spitzer’s New AI App Takes Apologetics to Another Level

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A Catechist Finds His Groove Online

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Gunmen abduct over 150 worshippers from churches in Nigeria

Gunmen abducted more than 150 worshippers during coordinated attacks on three churches in the country’s northwest, a state lawmaker told AP on Monday, January 19, 2026, underscoring the persistent insecurity facing communities in the region. The assaults took place Sunday in Kurmin Wali, a community in the Kajuru area of Kaduna State, while worshippers were Read More…

Gunmen abduct over 150 worshippers from churches in Nigeria

Priests celebrate Indiana win and star quarterback

Aleteia has already brought you a few scenes from the fairy tale success story of Fernando Mendoza, Indiana University’s first-ever Heisman Trophy winner, and now the quarterback of the Hoosiers’ first football national championship team. Accompanying Mendoza along the way have been some friends of his — Dominican friars who are chaplains at the university. Read More…

Priests celebrate Indiana win and star quarterback

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Is Catechesis

All the quasi-theological platitudes given for the suppression of traditional liturgy ignore the real harm done to the faith of children when you surround them with unserious liturgy.

Two Anniversaries of 2026 and the War on History

Eight hundred years ago, St. Francis surrendered his soul to Our Lord; two hundred fifty years ago, the United States came to be with its Declaration of Independence. Both anniversaries are crucial for helping us understand who we are and to what we are ordered.

The Church is at her best when laity, priests, and bishop are united

One of the most difficult obstacles in today’s world is trying to work for unity, not even outside the Church, but within the Church. Individuals within the Church too often pledge their loyalty to a political party over the teaching of Jesus Christ. This makes it difficult to achieve unity within a diocese, as each Read More…

The Church is at her best when laity, priests, and bishop are united

Patricia Neal: A story of love, healing, and forgiveness

Patricia Neal was one of the 20th century’s most gifted actresses of stage and screen. Her life, though, was a Greek tragedy, transformed by God’s healing love. She was born 100 years ago today — christened “Patsy Louise” — in Packard, Kentucky, the coal country hometown of her “earnest, warm-hearted” mother, Eura Mildred Petrey, whose Read More…

Patricia Neal: A story of love, healing, and forgiveness

Eucharist stolen from Catholic school in India

Church officials in India fear the Eucharist was desecrated after a tabernacle was stolen from a Catholic school in the Indian city of Nagpur the night of January 14. CCTV cameras caught masked men entering the St. Claret School building around midnight and entering the principal’s office, reported Catholic news website UCA News. The thieves Read More…

Eucharist stolen from Catholic school in India

Christian Zionism is a “damaging ideology,” says statement from church heads

The influence of Christian Zionism in the Holy Land is making life harder for the Christians who reside in the area, said a January 17 statement from the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem. “The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in the Holy Land affirm before the faithful and before the world that the Read More…

Christian Zionism is a “damaging ideology,” says statement from church heads