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5 Takeaways for This Sunday, When Almighty God Shows Up Unexpected...
Tom Hoopes
Jesus shows up in Peter’s life at an unexpected time in the readings this Sunday, the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C. As it turns out, this is the same approach Jesus took with the Old Testament prophets, St. Paul, and, crucially, with every single one of us. Here are five takeaways from previous This Sunday columns at this site and The Extraordinary Story.


6 Reasons Why Trump’s Gaza Proposal Is Gravely Immoral...
Edward Feser
President Donald Trump’s proposal to take ownership of Gaza, relocate its population, and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” is not only wildly impracticable on its face, but gravely immoral. First, the United States simply has no right to this land. Trump’s plan would amount to theft on a massive scale. And it only adds insult to this injury to pretend that, once their land is taken from them, the people of Gaza would leave it peacefully so that it can be turned into a real estate development...


Desiring the salvation of everyone — including my son’s murderer...


Padre Pio, Purgatory and Prayer: Are Some Ghostly Encounters a Cry for Help?


Doctor Angelicus: St. Thomas Aquinas’ Appearance Revealed After 750 Years...


7 More Bible Verses Every Catholic Should Know...


‘Sanctified Sound’: The Return of Bell-Tower Bells Ringing at Eucharistic Consecration...
Joseph Pronechen
Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound in many churches. Yet another centuries-old practice has remained in some places and has returned in others: ringing the bells in the church’s bell tower at the Consecration. At St. Peter Catholic Church in Volo, Illinois, shortly after its unstable bell tower was restored in 2018, the ringing tradition was revived...


Henri de Lubac: Pilgrim of Hope, Witness to Jesus Christ...


France’s St. Joan Valois, NHL Star Alex Ovechkin’s (Beautiful) Chaos on the Ice, and the News...
J.D. Flynn
French royal history is terrifically complex, and for me it’s difficult to keep straight. This is mostly because every important king in French history, good or bad, seems to be named Louis. I realize that you and I are part of a church in which almost exactly 20% of the popes have been named John, Gregory, or Benedict. But still, I find those guys much easier to track than all the various Louises who have either honored or disgraced France.


Our Lady of the Martyrs Shrine in Auriesville, New York, Offers Solace, Courage, and Inspiration [National Review Paywall]...
Kathryn Jean Lopez
‘When shall I begin to give myself entirely to Him, who has given Himself unreservedly to me?” New York may not be your idea of a hotbed of holiness. But the prayer quoted above comes from Father Isaac Jogues, a Jesuit missionary who risked his life for love of God and neighbor — a neighbor who was nowhere near his native France and who tried to kill him. But for Jogues that wasn’t enough of a sacrifice...


Revealed: What China’s DeepSeek AI Says (and Won’t Say) About Christianity...
Courtney Mares
DeepSeek-R1, China’s new artificial-intelligence chatbot, has been making waves. Last week, it surpassed OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most downloaded smartphone app, rattled Wall Street by sparking a massive sell-off of AI-related stocks, and raised eyebrows over its strict self-censorship policies. Like other large-language models (LLMs), DeepSeek-R1 can answer general knowledge questions, generate text, and solve complex math problems...


Pope Francis Announces Plan to Write Papal Document on Theme of Children...
Hannah Brockhaus
Pope Francis received a long round of applause at a Vatican summit on Monday after announcing he intends to make children the theme of a new papal document. Titled “Love Them and Protect Them,” the Feb. 3–4 summit with public- and private-sector leaders from around the world includes panels on the child’s right to resources, to education, to food and health care, to family, to free time, and to live free from violence...


Bishop Michael Burbidge is hiding a Philadelphia Eagles-related secret in his Arlington, Virginia, cathedral...


Dreamt of learning Latin? Here’s how you’ll finally do it...


Cause for Beatification of Antonino Baglieri, Quadriplegic Layman Who Brought Many Sick People to Christ, Advances...


Faith, Family, Football: The Catholic Legacy of Soccer Legend Tommy Burns...


There’s more to the March for Life than politics...

February is the month dedicated to the Holy Family — a reminder that holiness begins in the home...
Raymond Cardinal Burke
February marks the month of the Holy Family. The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin, faithful to the message of the Blessed Virgin Mary through her appearances on the American continent in 1531, serves the spiritual needs of those who suffer poverty in body and soul. It is a place of ceaseless prayer for the corporal and spiritual welfare of God’s children, especially those in most need.


How a Friend Taught Me the Theology of Forgiveness ...
John Clark
Last week, I was struggling mightily with forgiving others. On Friday morning, I posted something online regarding the unfair characterization of immigrants. I’m not going to quote it; this is not the proper avenue to rehash that discussion. When I posted it, I thought it was relatively innocuous. But it drew significant criticism, and I was hurt by some of these remarks.


Catholic Relief Services lays off staff, cuts programs after USAID shakeup...


Walk Humbly, College Politics, and the Value of Sledging...
Ed Condon
Humility, they say, comes with age. And, I would add, when it comes it’s wearing rubber gloves. This truth was borne upon me this week as I went for my more-or-less triennial physical exam, which yielded mixed results. It involved meeting my new doctor, my third in as many recent visits — the local practice can’t seem to hold on to them...


Pope's Mission Day Message: ‘Prayer Keeps Our Spark of Hope Alive’...


The power of reading aloud in the home is an astounding gift we can rediscover...
John Cuddeback
Is it really worth the effort to do this as opposed to watching a film together? I do not question the merits of a good movie-watching. I do suggest that there is something unique, prior, and indeed irreplaceable in shared listening. Consider again the image with which I opened: the moment the last sentence is read, or heard. My own experience of this has been uniform and clear though hard to capture in words...


Manners, Methods and Greatness...
George Weigel
Browsing Footprints in Time, the memoirs of Winston Churchill’s longtime private secretary, John Colville, I found a tale from 80 years ago with a lesson for American public life today. The idiosyncrasies of the British government being what they were in 1945, Colville, who had served Churchill as a private secretary throughout the Second World War, became one of Clement Attlee’s private secretaries when the Labor Party leader displaced Churchill as prime minister...


What If Depression and Anxiety Are the Only Logical Response to a World Without God?
Chris Stefanick
What’s wrong with young people today? The mental health crisis is skyrocketing—depression, anxiety, confusion about identity. But maybe, just maybe, nothing’s wrong with them at all. Maybe they’re just the canary in the coal mine, revealing something toxic in our entire culture. Could it be that young people are simply more sensitive to the emptiness of a worldview stripped of God, objective truth, and the transcendent? What if the real problem is a spiritual one? On this episode of The Chris Stefanick Show, I sit down with one of my absolute favorite speakers, Monsignor James Shea...


Do You Feel Like an Atheist?
Christopher Kaczor
Emma Camp said, “I only believe in God about 30 percent of the time on a good day.” The historian Tom Holland put the point this way, “Sometimes I can feel—I can believe—that the Spirit is real. I can believe that the story of the Passion and the Resurrection is so strange that it is not a cultural accident, that it is expressive of something that is true. And there are other times when I think...


Are churches sanctuaries in the law? Here’s an explainer from The Pillar...


NFL emails reveal extent of Saints' damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis in Archdiocese of New Orleans...


Few seem to have noticed this recent decision, but it’s an epic victory in the pro-life cause...


A Tale of Fire, Wind, and Healing: The Fascinating Legacy of St. Blaise...


The Catholic Church’s Copes of Many Colors...


A Choral Bridge: Serbian Orthodox Choir Sings With Sistine Chapel Choir in Rome...


Pope’s 2nd Jubilee Audience: Like St. Mary Magdalene, Turn ‘Toward Life’ and Away From ‘Darkness of the Past’...


Catholics, Hippocrates, and reforming American medicine...


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