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An Open Letter to Couples Living with Infertility

When some of my ethics clients describe their frustration in dealing with infertility, they often borrow a phrase from childhood: “I feel like I’m about to cry uncle.” The right way to translate that admission? [...]

From history to personal taste: What the Pope is carrying

Some observers suggest that when Pope Leo closed the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, he definitively ended Francis’ pontificate and symbolically opened his own… One image supports this analysis: When he appeared before the two bronze doors on January 6, he was holding a new pastoral staff. This accessory is highly symbolic. The Office Read More…

From history to personal taste: What the Pope is carrying

2 Movements of love: Pope’s homily for Presentation

On the evening of the feast of the Presentation, Pope Leo XIV celebrated a Mass that also marked the 30th World Day of Consecrated Life. The Holy Father reflected on both the image of Simeon and Anna, and the testimony given by the many consecrated persons in their various charisms today. Here is a full Read More…

2 Movements of love: Pope’s homily for Presentation

Shepherds of sailors: Challenges of Christian life at sea

People who work at sea live their faith in a peculiar way. The time ships spend in ports is becoming shorter and shorter, and docks are increasingly further away from cities. The spiritual accompaniment of seafarers requires collaboration and synergy, as well as hope and faith in the face of change. Deacon Ricardo Rodríguez-Martos is Read More…

Shepherds of sailors: Challenges of Christian life at sea

How a class project led to largest collection of papal artifacts outside Rome

Bringing “the sacred to the profane.” That is what one Minnesota diocesan priest has accomplished by curating the “Vatican Unveiled” exhibit that just completed a public display at the Mall of America in Minneapolis. The exhibit was hosted by the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis in celebration of the diocese’s 175th anniversary. Fr. Richard Read More…

How a class project led to largest collection of papal artifacts outside Rome

Sr. Thea Bowman’s cause for canonization moves on to Rome

Sr. Thea Bowman, a religious of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is currently on her way to potentially being recognized as a canonized Catholic saint. The Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi, is in charge of her cause for canonization and has recently completed its local investigation into her life. Nate Tinner-Williams Read More…

Sr. Thea Bowman’s cause for canonization moves on to Rome

Message in a bottle reveals how a Servant of God died

Nearly 90 years after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, a discovery inside a small parish church near Madrid has reopened a painful chapter many believed fully documented. During recent restoration work at Santa María del Castillo in Campo Real, workers uncovered a glass bottle hidden beside a grave. Inside was a folded document Read More…

Message in a bottle reveals how a Servant of God died

On Small Laws 

“When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom, you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.” And so we have the continuing melodrama in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Milanese children prepared for the Olympics for 3 years

When the next location for the Olympics was announced in 2022, the Archdiocese of Milan was uniquely poised to do something extraordinary to celebrate. The world will soon tune in to the 2026 Milan Olympics, but young Catholics across the archdiocese have been preparing for the last three years through the Ora Sport on Fire Read More…

Milanese children prepared for the Olympics for 3 years