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Editor’s note: This review contains some strong language and descriptions relating to sex. Last week, I attended the New Year’s celebration at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. It was paradoxical: the cultural program included [...]

Pope Leo began his first Lent as pope with Mass this Ash Wednesday at the Basilica of Santa Sabina on Rome’s Aventine Hill. As is tradition, he made a short “penitential pilgrimage” from the Church of Saint Anselm to the Basilica of Saint Sabina. His homily took up a unique element of Lent — the Read More…

Start Lent with Pope Leo XIV (photos and homily)

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The pontiff said he must be free to denounce injustice amid today’s challenges. Pope Leo XIV said the successor of Peter must retain “complete freedom to speak the truth, denounce injustice, defend the rights of [...]

A private association of lay faithful that serves students in Spain will begin the cause for the canonization of its founder, a Jesuit priest. The Catholic Association of Propagandists (who propagate, or spread, the faith) [...]

The scientific debate surrounding the Shroud of Turin has entered a new chapter. In recent days, the journal Archaeometry published a detailed rebuttal to a hypothesis proposing that the cloth’s image was produced in the Middle Ages using a bas-relief. Last summer, Brazilian researcher Cicero Moraes argued that a three-dimensional digital reconstruction supported the idea Read More…

Shroud study debate returns to spotlight

Few of us like to admit that we are selfish. We tend to keep a pearly image of ourselves, thinking that we really aren’t that bad of a person. While we may not be a murderer or a thief, we likely are tempted to be prideful and sometimes think that our way is the best Read More…

Lent is the perfect time to conquer your selfish desires

When Pope Leo begins his first Lent as pontiff this afternoon, he will follow an ancient tradition that sees the Successor of Peter process between two churches on the Aventine Hill. The churches are entrusted to two of the Church’s ancient orders: the Benedictines and the Dominicans. Writing for the Diocese of South Bend, Indiana, Read More…

Pope to start Lent at church with oldest image of crucifixion