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On March 6, 2026, the Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra (PIMS) will confer a doctorate honoris causa in Sacred Music upon the Scottish composer James MacMillan, widely regarded as one of the most important Catholic composers of our time. Founded in 1910 by Pope St. Pius X, the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music is the Read More…

Scottish composer to get unique Roman honor

Do you have a “rice bowl” sitting on your table right now?  The Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Rice Bowl Lenten fundraiser is a common sight in Catholic homes this time of year. CRS Rice Bowl is the Lenten program of Catholic Relief Services, the official relief and development agency of the United States Conference of Read More…

Meatless Lent meals from around the world: Tasty ideas

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down President Trump’s executive order abolishing birthright citizenship for the children of many immigrants.  Birthright citizenship means that a child born on U.S. territory is automatically a U.S. citizen, regardless of their parents’ citizenship status. While there are Read More…

Why US bishops asked Court to keep birthright citizenship

Putin, Groypers, Islam, and Christ: What yoke will Europe choose to pull her into the future?

People are wrong about AI job scarcity in the same way Malthusians have been wrong about population and food scarcity.

In 1604, Church officials opened the tomb of Saint Casimir in the cathedral of Vilnius during the solemn translation of his relics. The young royal, who had died more than a century earlier, was already venerated across Poland and Lithuania for a life of unusual holiness. According to longstanding Catholic tradition recorded in early accounts Read More…

The Marian hymn “found” in St. Casimir’s tomb

The efforts made since the creation of the United Nations in 1945 “seem to have been in vain,” protested Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See. He was speaking in an interview given on March 4, 2026, to Andrea Tornielli, editorial director of Vatican Media, on the fifth day of the war Read More…

Preventive war? Vatican speaks out on Iran, “spiral of violence”

In a Saturday audience at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV offered seminarians a warning that reaches far beyond seminary walls: Do not refuse the supernatural. Welcoming around 50 seminarians from cities across Spain — accompanied by family members and formators — the Holy Father encouraged them to cultivate “a supernatural perspective on reality.” Without it, Read More…

Leo XIV urges seminarians to keep the supernatural

One thing about social media that is really useful is that old news crops back up again just when you need it most. This was just the case when a famous interview re-emerged between journalist Jillian Hardeman-Webb and Denzel Washington, in which the pair discussed cancel culture and the idea of losing public support. The Read More…

Why Denzel Washington’s message matters this Lent

Academic and intellectual to the core, Paul Thigpen rather chose the path of humility and poured his time, talent, and treasure into the Mother who saved him.