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Pope Leo urges truce for 2026 Winter Olympics

This article is updated to include the Pope’s message after the midday Angelus of February 1: Next Friday, the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games will begin, followed by the Paralympic Games. I extend my best wishes to the organizers and all the athletes. These great sporting events send a powerful message of fraternity and rekindle hope Read More…

Pope Leo urges truce for 2026 Winter Olympics

‘The Subject Was Roses’: Navigating love’s thorns

Frank D. Gilroy lays bare the emotions of love and hate, empathy and dejection, in his loosely-autobiographical award-winning play The Subject Was Roses, set in 1946 West Bronx, New York, featuring the Cleary family, John and Nettie, and their son Timothy. Debuting on May 25, 1964, on Broadway — starring Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen — Read More…

‘The Subject Was Roses’: Navigating love’s thorns

The tiny Italian Alpine lake that celebrates St. Julius on January 31

From Montecassino Abbey to La Verna Sanctuary, Italy has no shortage of monasteries and abbeys located in picturesque locations. But as far as island monasteries go, it’s hard to beat the Monastery of St. Julius, in Italy’s Lake Orta. Just 900 feet long and 500 feet wide, the island stands at the center of Lake Read More…

The tiny Italian Alpine lake that celebrates St. Julius on January 31

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and the road to recovery

Guillermo del Toro was born to make a Frankenstein movie. Growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he divided his time between the Catedral de la Asunción de María Santísima and local cinemas, where he was exposed early on [...]

Make America Beautiful Again

America can only be made great again if it first seeks to make its citizens virtuous again.

Military Archbishop Broglio: Hegseth is helping restore chaplain mission to spiritual ministry

Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, discussed the role of military chaplains, the the restoration of chapel contracts, and just war doctrine.Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military [...]

U.S. bishops join international delegation in West Bank, call for 2-state solution

Representatives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops joined an international delegation to the West Bank, where they said conditions remain “catastrophic.” Bishop Abdallah Zaidan of the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon and [...]

‘The answer to suffering is not to offer death,’ cardinal says of assisted suicide bill in Italy

The Italian bishops are opposing a pending bill that would legitimize assisted suicide and are also calling for greater investment in palliative care and support for the sick. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian [...]

Meet the New Porn: Even Worse than the Old Porn

Pornography soaks the minds of those who consume it in unrealities that, in turn, ruin lives in reality. AI, in all its uses, may turn out to be even worse.

The Ghost of Paul Weyrich in the Halls of Heritage

Staff departures at the Heritage Foundation are actually rooted in a deeper, more ideological shift than many assume.