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Meet the priest who grew up in the Peruvian Andes and was confirmed by Pope Leo XIV
Posted on 03/1/2026 08:49 AM (Catholic World Report)
Lucinda Riley’s ‘Seven Sisters’: A legacy beyond the page
Posted on 03/1/2026 08:44 AM (Aleteia — Catholic Spirituality, Lifestyle, World News, and Culture)
Some books are discovered quietly. Others arrive with insistence. “You have to read this,” a friend says, pressing a well-thumbed paperback into your hands. “Trust me.” Lucinda Riley’s Seven Sisters series became exactly that kind of phenomenon. Passed between sisters, book clubs, colleagues, and neighbors, the sweeping saga of seven women tracing their origins across Read More…
Lucinda Riley’s ‘Seven Sisters’: A legacy beyond the pagePope Leo XIV urges diplomacy amid Iran tensions
Posted on 03/1/2026 08:39 AM (Catholic World Report)
What does it mean to be “automatically” excommunicated?
Posted on 03/1/2026 08:36 AM (Aleteia — Catholic Spirituality, Lifestyle, World News, and Culture)
Perhaps when we think of excommunication, we think of a cardinal or bishop wagging his finger at a person in some sort of Church court. Excommunication is typically seen by the media or movies as some sort of punishment that the Catholic Church deals out when she really wants to make sure that an individual Read More…
What does it mean to be “automatically” excommunicated?“May Our Lady of Arabia watch over us all”
Posted on 03/1/2026 08:34 AM (Aleteia — Catholic Spirituality, Lifestyle, World News, and Culture)
At the start of the conflict in Iran, the bishops of the two vicariates that oversee the gulf countries of Arabia and more than 2 million Catholic faithful there issued statements. Both prayed, “May Our Lady of Arabia, our mother, watch over us all.” The two statements are brief, and encouraged the faithful to be Read More…
“May Our Lady of Arabia watch over us all”Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman’s voice needed ‘more than ever’
Posted on 03/1/2026 08:27 AM (Catholic World Report)
We’re getting chastity all wrong, and that makes it harder
Posted on 03/1/2026 07:47 AM (Aleteia — Catholic Spirituality, Lifestyle, World News, and Culture)
I can’t help but think that we’re thinking about chastity all wrong. Precisely backwards, in fact, and this mix-up is behind the reason so many of us struggle to be chaste. We’re picturing a constant battle against sin, the relentless process of leaving something we desire behind. In this scenario, chastity can be conceived as Read More…
We’re getting chastity all wrong, and that makes it harderThe Legatus’ Annual Summit emphasizes faith, fellowship, and witness
Posted on 03/1/2026 07:30 AM (Catholic World Report)
Pope Leo, the Joshua Tree, and the Paschal Mystery
Posted on 02/28/2026 21:38 PM (Catholic World Report)
Lenten Lockdown—Lest We Forget
Posted on 02/28/2026 05:00 AM (Crisis Magazine)
Everyone remembers when the world was shut down during the great lockdown of 2020. However, there are some things that we are in danger of forgetting, not least of which is the way that the Covid pandemic was used as a pretext to declare war on religion and religious liberty.