Your Home Is the Home of Responsibility...
The crisis of responsibility, which is obvious to anyone today, first took root in our homes. We should then address it in our home life. For, of course, home is the ‘home’ of responsibility. There is no context that so clearly demands taking responsibility for others than marriage and family. And a person learns to be responsible if others take responsibility for him, beginning in these basic relationships of human life...
Reminder to Vatican ecumenists and diplomats: Patriarch Kirill is an old KGB hand who has abandoned Christian orthodoxy...
When Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ was head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s external relations department, he would occasionally come to Washington, where the Librarian of Congress, James Billington, a distinguished historian of Russian culture, would host a small dinner for him. I was a guest on one such occasion, and the impression Kirill left that night remains in my mind...
‘Help Me Help Missionaries’: Pope Leo’s Historic Video Appeal...
Earlier this week, Pope Leo did something no pope has ever done. He recorded a video message for World Mission Sunday, making a direct appeal to Catholics across the world to “help me help missionaries across the world.” The video is a little over a minute long, making it easy to share on social media, in parish and diocesan email blasts, on websites and other means...
2,000 Join Rosary Crusade Through Streets of London...
At least 2,000 faithful participated in an annual London Rosary Crusade of Reparation on Saturday — a notably large gathering that organizers hope reflects a fledgling revival of faith in England. Participants of all ages and backgrounds prayed the Rosary and sang hymns along the two-mile procession from Westminster Cathedral to the London Brompton Oratory...
Yes, Christopher Columbus...
Today is Columbus Day, or (among the alternatively oriented) Native Peoples’ Day, both displaced in any case, as even major Catholic feasts now are, to a different date, so that people will have long weekends, or not be inconvenienced, or something. In any event, it’s a day now redefined in terms that make it unclear what, if anything, we are celebrating, or deploring, in this booming, buzzing confusion that we still (kind of) think of as the twenty-first Christian century.
Vatican Announces Formal Nomination of Judges in Father Rupnik Trial...
How Should Catholics Understand the Rogue Exorcist in Mark 9?
In Mark 9, we hear about a man unaffiliated with the disciples who casts out demons in Jesus’s name. This same episode is also recorded in Luke 9:49-50, while St. Matthew’s Gospel includes a variation on the warning Jesus delivers to His disciples: “He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.” For Catholic readers of the Gospels, the exorcist passage raises some interesting questions...
Men Without Heads: The Real Crisis in Classical Education...
Holy Days? Says Who?
The Church, by her apostolic authority, established “the Lord’s Day” to be Sunday, according to Acts 20:7, 1 Corinthians 16:1-2, and Revelation 1:10 (see also CCC 2175-2179). This is the spiritual fulfillment of the Sabbath and is binding on Christians. But does this contradict Romans 14:5? Absolutely not! Again, that is not what Paul was talking about.
Once-secret Emperor Commodus’ passage to Rome Colosseum opens to public for the first time...
Reflections on Dilexi Te, the first magisterial document of Leo XIV’s pontificate...
Loyola University Basketball’s Sister Jean Dolores Dies at 106...
‘Dilexi Te’: The Franciscan Framework of Pope Leo’s First Document...
The problem(s) with ‘LGBTQ Catholic’...
The Devil and the Duckspeakers...
Go Behind the Scenes of the ‘Hallow’ App With Co-Founder Alex Jones...
How you will never hear the seamless garment theory used...
12 Failed Constitutional Amendments That Could Have Reshaped American History...
The Rosary, the Battle of Lepanto and More in Voyage Comics’ New Comic Book...
What Awaits Pope Leo XIV in Lebanon...
How should Catholics think about Islam?
Is My Body Mine? - LifeCraft...
True Christian Charity Is Sacrificial and Personal...
Pope Leo XIV Signs First Apostolic Exhortation, ‘Dilexi Te’ — Text to Be Released Thursday...
Life by Faith: A Reflection on the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time...
This Sunday, You Will Reject Everything Jesus Says in This Gospel — At First...
Pontifical Swiss Guard Restore Historic Dress Uniform Dropped 50 Years Ago...
Shackleton’s Fourth Man: The Mysterious Phenomenon That Guided 27 Men Home...
‘Last opportunity’ to leave: Catholics and Orthodox in Gaza City face agonizing decision...
Leah Libresco Sargeant on the Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto...
If you don’t care for the poor, you will go to Hell...
British Catholic Bishop Condemns Manchester Synagogue Attack That Killed Two on Yom Kippur...
Durbin Declines Cupich Award Ahead of Looming USCCB Response ...
Pope Leo XIV Wades Into Debate Over Cardinal Cupich Award for Pro-Abortion Sen. Durbin...
Why Christ Won’t Let His Church Ordain Women...
Surrounded by a pagan culture that often had priestesses, the decision — by Judaism first, and then by Christ — to limit the priesthood to men is either the result of a mere patriarchal and cultural bias, or the product of a definitive theological decision with deeper meaning. When did Jesus ever make decisions in the Gospel that we can say are clear examples...
Evidence of Mercy Amid the Madness...
Thanks to the availability of instantaneous, global communication and our addiction to it, 21st century humans are permitted — perhaps condemned is a better word — to witness daily episodes of brutality and violence and, particularly over the past few months, horrendous killings. We were spared viewing the June slayings of Democrat lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the nightmarish shooting...
How the Oct. 13, 1917, ‘Miracle of the Sun’ in Fátima Helped to End an Atheist Regime...
Contemplation and the Cross...
It’s Not Too Late: Why Adults Should Learn Latin and Ancient Greek...
Pope Leo’s Augustinian community is drawing renewed interest. Here’s what makes it unique...
Is There a Purpose to Religious Education?
Dare Students Go Amish on the Topic of AI?
One of my family’s prized possessions is an Amish-made table fashioned from solid cherry wood, a souvenir from the decade we lived in the Amish country of northeast Ohio. It’s a thing of real beauty: The hand that made it was sure of its own skill. We loved that table so much we ordered a bedroom set from the same maker. When it was delivered...
Pope Hails Glimmers of Hope for Peace in Holy Land and Prays for Ukraine...
Wisdom in ‘The Wind in the Willows’...
Last week, my daughter and I went to watch a local production of the recent musical adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, which has proved very successful on the other side of the Pond since its premiere in the English county of Devon in 2016. As a family, we like to support local cultural initiatives and this was emphatically local. We knew several members of the cast and many members of the audience...
Washington State Drops Effort to Make Priests Violate Seal of Confession in Reporting Law...
‘Dilexi Te’: Pope Leo XIV, in His First Major Document, Says the Poor Evangelize Us...
Apostolic Exhortation ‘Dilexi Te’ on Love for the Poor...
“I have loved you.” The Lord speaks these words to a Christian community that, unlike some others, had no influence or resources, and was treated instead with violence and contempt: “You have but little power. ... I will make them come and bow down before your feet.” This text reminds us of the words of the canticle of Mary: “He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty”...
Remains of St. Francis of Assisi to Be Publicly Displayed for the First Time in 800 Years...
Hollywood Has Made Many Movies About Exorcism. But None Has Had Christ at Its Heart...
These special-effects-driven exorcism movies threaten to turn this holy rite into nothing more than a ludicrously unbelievable subgenre of Hollywood horror, and not a very important one. When that happens (if it hasn’t already), the rite of exorcism and the office of exorcist may become a joke. The line between horror and humor is thin. Jesus cast out demons. But he also gave his Apostles the power, which they used...
Our Lord warned about ‘vain repetition’ in prayer. So what about the Rosary?
Are Catholics guilty of “vain repetition” in prayer? Protestants often make this accusation. They say that repeated standard prayers, rather than spontaneous, improvised prayers, is pointless and even damaging. Typically, this comes up with regard to the holy rosary, but it is often applied more broadly. The claim is that Our Lord specifically condemned repetitive prayer during his earthly ministry, and Catholics are in violation of this prohibition.
Returning Thanks: A Reflection on the upcoming 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time...
Mary Shows Up, and Mrs. Bucket...
What Do We Know of Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s Unhailed Holy Queen?
How to Answer 4 Common Jewish Objections to Jesus...
The Risk of Teaching Against Christ...
6 Strange Time Zone Disputes Around the World...
All About Me, Cause and Effect, and Secret Policemen...
6 Reasons You Should Look to Christ and Stop Paying Attention to Celebrity Exorcists...
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Stop lying to yourself. And stop texting while driving...
‘I Must Believe in God’: How Dr. Jane Goodall’s Visit to Notre Dame Cathedral Changed Her Life...
Statement of Cardinal Blase Cupich on the Keep Hope Alive Award...
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The Complete List of Popes
- St. Peter (32-67)
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- St. Clement I (88-97)
- St. Evaristus (97-105)
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- St. Hyginus (136-140)
- St. Pius I (140-155)
- St. Anicetus (155-166)
- St. Soter (166-175)
- St. Eleutherius (175-189)
- St. Victor I (189-199)
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- St. Callistus I (217-22)
- St. Urban I (222-30)
- St. Pontian (230-35)
- St. Anterus (235-36)
- St. Fabian (236-50)
- St. Cornelius (251-53)
- St. Lucius I (253-54)
- St. Stephen I (254-257)
- St. Sixtus II (257-258)
- St. Dionysius (260-268)
- St. Felix I (269-274)
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- St. Marcellinus (296-304)
- St. Marcellus I (308-309)
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- St. Miltiades (311-14)
- St. Sylvester I (314-35)
- St. Marcus (336)
- St. Julius I (337-52)
- Liberius (352-66)
- St. Damasus I (366-84)
- St. Siricius (384-99)
- St. Anastasius I (399-401)
- St. Innocent I (401-17)
- St. Zosimus (417-18)
- St. Boniface I (418-22)
- St. Celestine I (422-32)
- St. Sixtus III (432-40)
- St. Leo I (the Great) (440-61)
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- St. Felix III (II) (483-92)
- St. Gelasius I (492-96)
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- St. Symmachus (498-514)
- St. Hormisdas (514-23)
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- John II (533-35)
- St. Agapetus I (535-36)
- St. Silverius (536-37)
- Vigilius (537-55)
- Pelagius I (556-61)
- John III (561-74)
- Benedict I (575-79)
- Pelagius II (579-90)
- St. Gregory I (the Great) (590-604)
- Sabinian (604-606)
- Boniface III (607)
- St. Boniface IV (608-15)
- St. Deusdedit (Adeodatus I) (615-18)
- Boniface V (619-25)
- Honorius I (625-38)
- Severinus (640)
- John IV (640-42)
- Theodore I (642-49)
- St. Martin I (649-55)
- St. Eugene I (655-57)
- St. Vitalian (657-72)
- Adeodatus (II) (672-76)
- Donus (676-78)
- St. Agatho (678-81)
- St. Leo II (682-83)
- St. Benedict II (684-85)
- John V (685-86)
- Conon (686-87)
- St. Sergius I (687-701)
- John VI (701-05)
- John VII (705-07)
- Sisinnius (708)
- Constantine (708-15)
- St. Gregory II (715-31)
- St. Gregory III (731-41)
- St. Zachary (741-52)
- Stephen II (III) (752-57)
- St. Paul I (757-67)
- Stephen III (IV) (767-72)
- Adrian I (772-95)
- St. Leo III (795-816)
- Stephen IV (V) (816-17)
- St. Paschal I (817-24)
- Eugene II (824-27)
- Valentine (827)
- Gregory IV (827-44)
- Sergius II (844-47)
- St. Leo IV (847-55)
- Benedict III (855-58)
- St. Nicholas I (the Great) (858-67)
- Adrian II (867-72)
- John VIII (872-82)
- Marinus I (882-84)
- St. Adrian III (884-85)
- Stephen V (VI) (885-91)
- Formosus (891-96)
- Boniface VI (896)
- Stephen VI (VII) (896-97)
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- Theodore II (897)
- John IX (898-900)
- Benedict IV (900-03)
- Leo V (903)
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- Leo VI (928)
- Stephen VIII (929-31)
- John XI (931-35)
- Leo VII (936-39)
- Stephen IX (939-42)
- Marinus II (942-46)
- Agapetus II (946-55)
- John XII (955-63)
- Leo VIII (963-64)
- Benedict V (964)
- John XIII (965-72)
- Benedict VI (973-74)
- Benedict VII (974-83)
- John XIV (983-84)
- John XV (985-96)
- Gregory V (996-99)
- Sylvester II (999-1003)
- John XVII (1003)
- John XVIII (1003-09)
- Sergius IV (1009-12)
- Benedict VIII (1012-24)
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- Sylvester III (1045)
- Benedict IX (1045)
- Gregory VI (1045-46)
- Clement II (1046-47)
- Benedict IX (1047-48)
- Damasus II (1048)
- St. Leo IX (1049-54)
- Victor II (1055-57)
- Stephen X (1057-58)
- Nicholas II (1058-61)
- Alexander II (1061-73)
- St. Gregory VII (1073-85)
- Blessed Victor III (1086-87)
- Blessed Urban II (1088-99)
- Paschal II (1099-1118)
- Gelasius II (1118-19)
- Callistus II (1119-24)
- Honorius II (1124-30)
- Innocent II (1130-43)
- Celestine II (1143-44)
- Lucius II (1144-45)
- Blessed Eugene III (1145-53)
- Anastasius IV (1153-54)
- Adrian IV (1154-59)
- Alexander III (1159-81)
- Lucius III (1181-85)
- Urban III (1185-87)
- Gregory VIII (1187)
- Clement III (1187-91)
- Celestine III (1191-98)
- Innocent III (1198-1216)
- Honorius III (1216-27)
- Gregory IX (1227-41)
- Celestine IV (1241)
- Innocent IV (1243-54)
- Alexander IV (1254-61)
- Urban IV (1261-64)
- Clement IV (1265-68)
- Blessed Gregory X (1271-76)
- Blessed Innocent V (1276)
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- John XXI (1276-77)
- Nicholas III (1277-80)
- Martin IV (1281-85)
- Honorius IV (1285-87)
- Nicholas IV (1288-92)
- St. Celestine V (1294)
- Boniface VIII (1294-1303)
- Blessed Benedict XI (1303-04)
- Clement V (1305-14)
- John XXII (1316-34)
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- Innocent VI (1352-62)
- Blessed Urban V (1362-70)
- Gregory XI (1370-78)
- Urban VI (1378-89)
- Boniface IX (1389-1404)
- Innocent VII (1404-06)
- Gregory XII (1406-15)
- Martin V (1417-31)
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- Nicholas V (1447-55)
- Callistus III (1455-58)
- Pius II (1458-64)
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- Innocent VIII (1484-92)
- Alexander VI (1492-1503)
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- Paul III (1534-49)
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- Pius IV (1559-65)
- St. Pius V (1566-72)
- Gregory XIII (1572-85)
- Sixtus V (1585-90)
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- Gregory XIV (1590-91)
- Innocent IX (1591)
- Clement VIII (1592-1605)
- Leo XI (1605)
- Paul V (1605-21)
- Gregory XV (1621-23)
- Urban VIII (1623-44)
- Innocent X (1644-55)
- Alexander VII (1655-67)
- Clement IX (1667-69)
- Clement X (1670-76)
- Blessed Innocent XI (1676-89)
- Alexander VIII (1689-91)
- Innocent XII (1691-1700)
- Clement XI (1700-21)
- Innocent XIII (1721-24)
- Benedict XIII (1724-30)
- Clement XII (1730-40)
- Benedict XIV (1740-58)
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- Leo XII (1823-29)
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