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‘Why Do You Have Ashes?’: Catholic Students Marked by Faith on a Secular Campus

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Jesse Jackson and the weaponization of persons of color

As the nation marks Jesse Jackson’s death at age 84, I realize that the temptation will be either to canonize the man as an icon of civil rights sainthood or to dismiss him as a [...]

Virginia Catholic Bishops Thank State Lawmakers for Rejecting Assisted Suicide Bills

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Knoxville Bishop Richard Stika, who resigned after Vatican mismanagement investigation, dies at 68

The bishop was also the subject of a lawsuit alleging a cover-up of sex abuse allegations. Bishop Richard Stika, who resigned from leading the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2023 after a Vatican investigation into [...]

France in shock over murder of young convert and pro-life activist Quentin Deranque

The murder of 23-year-old pro-life activist and Catholic convert Quentin Deranque, allegedly at the hands of far-left activists, has shocked France. The alleged murder at the hands of far-left activists of Quentin Deranque, a young [...]

Start Lent with Pope Leo XIV (photos and homily)

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)

Shroud study debate returns to spotlight

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

Lent is the perfect time to conquer your selfish desires

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

Pope to start Lent at church with oldest image of crucifixion

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

St. Peter’s to get a 400th birthday update

On November 18, 2026, Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome to commemorate the anniversary of its official consecration 400 years ago. To mark this important anniversary, the Holy See has announced the launch of new spaces and services — particularly digital ones — for pilgrims and tourists alike. They Read More…

St. Peter’s to get a 400th birthday update