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The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s death. This is an opportunity to discover the mother of the aviator-poet. She is little known to the general public but deserves to step out of the shadows. Plagued by trials and tribulations throughout her long life, she clung, to paraphrase Bernanos, to the Read More…

I don’t always have time to sit down and read a physical book, but it’s easy to play an audiobook or podcast while I’m folding laundry or washing dishes. Audiobooks have made it possible for me to “read” so many more books than ever before. But as much as I love listening to a great Read More…

Attacks on Christians in India have increased in number by 500% over the last decade, the United Christian Forum (UCF) said in press conference in New Delhi on November 4. The UCF is an inter-denominational Christian group and is based in New Delhi, India. “Between 2014 and 2024, incidents of violence against Christians rose sharply—from Read More…

On June 28, 2012, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was recognized for his “heroic virtues” and was declared “venerable” by Pope Benedict XVI. It was a major milestone in the cause for his beatification and canonization, which was officially opened in 2002 by Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria, Illinois. After an extensive medical study, a Read More…

November 8 is the six-month anniversary of Pope Leo XIV’s election. We consider 12 interesting dates from this first half-year. May 8: At 6:07 p.m., under the gaze of cameras from around the world, white smoke billowed from the stove in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, causing a clamor among the crowd that shook Read More…

Catholics should not visit the “Marian” shrine in Naju, South Korea, and will incur an automatic excommunication if they do so, multiple bishops warned their flocks in recent weeks. The latest of these warnings came from Archbishop Simon Poh of Kuching, Malaysia. On November 4, he published a statement telling Catholics to only visit approved Read More…

Parenting is a curious role. We sign no contract, attend no formal training, and yet — from sunup to sundown — we are expected to be chauffeur, chef, therapist, referee, motivational speaker, and snack engineer. And then many parents have to pair these demands with those of their jobs. Most days we muddle through, manage Read More…

“Work must be a source of hope and life, allowing individuals to express their creativity and their capacity to do good,” explained Leo XIV during his jubilee audience on November 8, 2025, organized as part of the Jubilee of the World of Work. The Holy Father drew his brief meditation on hope from the testimony Read More…

Pope Leo XIV approved the beatification of Mother Eliswa Vakayil and set the date of the ceremony for November 8 in Kerala, India. The beatification was presided over by Cardinal Sebastian Francis, who was appointed a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2023. Prior to the ceremony, Cardinal Sebastian praised Mother Eliswa speaking to Radio Veritas Read More…