At a time when calls for peace are met with political hostility, the words of Pope Leo XIV resound with particular urgency. During the prayer vigil...
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May 8, 2026, will mark one full year since the election of Pope Leo XIV, following the death of Pope Francis in April 2025. From his earliest appointments to...
About 25 years ago, during the weekly Friday evening Mass in the living room of the Bishop Dingman House of the Des Moines Catholic Worker, a man entered from...
It wasn’t supposed to be this way, Vice President JD Vance complained to tech and corporate leaders gathered at the American Dynamism Summit in Washington last...
“In a divided world, the Holy Spirit teaches us to walk together in unity,” said Pope Leo XIV in his homily for Pentecost. The theme of unity has been one of...
“All priestly formation, particularly that of future priests, is at the heart of evangelization. They, responding to a genuine specific vocation, will inspire...
I often think that Catholics have a parenting problem. Sure, we’re very good at idealizing parenthood: the beauty of family life, the miracle of new life, the...
“No one is useless and no one is expendable. This also means finding ways to include those on the peripheries of life. For they have another way of looking at...
“If we go in search of other people, other cultures, other ways of thinking, other religions, we come out of ourselves and begin that beautiful adventure that...
People say you never forget a first impression, but I honestly couldn’t tell you my first impression of St. Pope Paul VI. At first, I suppose, Paul VI was just...
