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Pope Francis Shakes Up Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops, Announces Appointment of Women to Committee Selecting New Bishops


Pope Francis condemns ‘senseless shooting,’ calls for end of violence after Fourth of July parade attack...


How childhood innocence strikes terror into drag queens...


Jesus Christ Is the Center of History, and the Source of Our Freedom...
J.D. Flynn
Today’s the feast of St. Zoe of Rome, a third-century noblewoman whose husband maintained the Roman jail in which was imprisoned St. Sebastian, a prophet who would become a martyr. Zoe couldn’t speak; she apparently suffered an illness that left her unable to talk for more than six years — until Sebastian, the holy prisoner overseen by her husband...


In New Interview, Pope Francis Denies Resignation Plans, Responds to Communion Question, Says Abortion Is Like ‘Hiring a Hit Man’...


7 practical principles for proclaiming the Kingdom of God...
Msgr. Charles Pope
In the Gospel today, Jesus gives a number of practical principles for those who would proclaim the Kingdom. Let’s look at each of them in turn. First, there is an abundant harvest, but there are few willing to work at it. Consider the harvest in our own day. Look at the whole human race and think about how many don’t yet know the Lord...


Our Lord sends us out two by two (like friends, or spouses). But He is not naïve — He knows He is sending us out like lambs among wolves...
Tom Hoopes
In last week’s Sunday Gospel, Jesus said “Follow me.” This week, the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time he says “Head out.” Last week, disciples explained why they can’t come with him just yet. This week, they return to him rejoicing at what they accomplished. The Gospel story of the mission of the 72 gives us a step by step lesson in how to go from weak excuses to boasting in the name of the Lord...


Solidarity HealthShare under fire for unpaid bills, unmet regulations...


The Lord’s power shall be known to His servants...
Fr. Victor Feltes
Today’s psalm tells us: “Shout joyfully to God, proclaim his glorious praise. Say to God, ‘How tremendous are your deeds!‘” When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and the Soviet Union dissolved two years after, I remember my dad remarking that those were things he thought he would never live to see. It seemed like Russian power would dominate Eastern Europe forever...


Two kids from Utah mistake young cougar for kitten — ‘Oh, shoot. It’s not a cat’...


Have you have seen the logo for the 2025 Jubilee? It’s really something...
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
You have seen the logo for the 2025 Jubilee? It’s really something. I can’t tell you what that makes me think of. A lot of people submitted designs. Giacomo Travisani is the fellow who designed it. His name is Giacomo Travisani. Someone today mentioned an additional fact about him, so I looked around. Same guy? I think it may be...


How debating Pentecostals led a Baptist mom to Catholicism...


Sand Creek, Wounded Knee, Roe v. Wade — Native Americans Resist Progressive Threat to Force Abortion Clinics on Indigenous Lands...


Virginia schools’ new rules to punish “misgendering” are designed to create compliant, fearful children...
Noelle Mering
The Fairfax County School Board recently approved a policy expanding punishment for students who misgender classmates. Pronouns that accord with reality now constitute “discriminatory harassment” and can result in weekslong suspension or even a referral to law enforcement. This decision is a harbinger of things to come and precedes an impending Biden administration regulatory proposal expanding the definition of sex discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity...


Jordan Peterson suspended from Twitter for tweeting: “Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician”...


Pope Francis Raises Eyebrows With New Interview Touching on Normandy Invasion: ‘I Believe It Is Time to Rethink the Concept of a Just War’...


Scientific American: How parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children...


Initial impressions of ‘Desiderio Desideravi,’ Pope Francis’ new document on the Mass...

Examining the Jesuit doctrinal hammerlock on the Roman Curia...
Fr. Raymond de Souza
Five years ago July 1, Pope Francis dismissed the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, elevating his deputy at the same time. With the first Jesuit pope appointing a fellow Jesuit, Archbishop Luis Ladaria, as prefect, the Society of Jesus had a hammerlock on doctrinal authority in the Roman Curia...


The unborn Savior comes to meet the unborn...
K.V. Turley
It should not have surprised us. But it did. The timing, that is — or more particularly, the day on which the announcement came, when Roe v. Wade was no more. Eventually, when the news did come, it was a poignant moment. The rumor mill had been working overtime for weeks. A leaked draft purporting to be the text of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) pronouncement in the case of Dobbs v...


Pope Hopes China Deal on Bishops Will Be Renewed Soon...


Pope’s Sunday Angelus: Evangelization Is Not ‘Personal Activism’ but a Witness of Love...


Musings on possibly the greatest road not taken in papal history...
John Allen
Today marks the 173rd anniversary of a milestone moment in the modern history of the Catholic Church, one with reverberations that continue to be felt to this day. As it happens, it’s also an anniversary that calls to mind perhaps the greatest road not taken in the entire history of the papacy. It was on July 3, 1849, that French troops breached Rome to end the brief-lived Roman Republic under Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini...


Here’s a phenomenal visualization of the 1527 Sack of Rome, a momentous event in Catholic history...


Solidarity, liturgy, and your Weekend Update...
Ed Condon
The Fourth of July has always held a special place in my heart. Spending more than half of my life in the UK, it was always a day I took a certain grim satisfaction celebrating “in exile,” so to speak. When I worked in Parliament, I would treat myself to a box of PG Tips and spend a few minutes standing on the terrace of the Palace of Westminster...


Scientists say they've solved a 700-year-old mystery: Where and when Black Death began...


“What is truth?” — 10 Catholic responses to pro-choice objections...
R. Jared Staudt
Truth has been eclipsed in our culture — this much should be obvious. We no longer accept even the most basic aspects of reality and refuse to affirm that we can even know them at all. Life, the most basic tenet of reality itself, has become a flashpoint in our flight from reality. In opposing the specious arguments of the pro-choice movement...


Know Your Scams #1 — What’s the deal with those Indian phone scams, and how can you help your loved ones not to fall prey to them?


Know Your Scams #2 — What’s the deal with those weird wrong-number texts you’ve been getting?


Where have you gone, Jacques Maritain?
Daniel Philpott
On the sixth of the month, far-right agitators assaulted the national legislature, leaving several dead and many more wounded. The next month, amid a public debate so fractious as to elicit warnings of civil war, a group of Catholic philosophers signed a manifesto pleading for the common good and saying no to anti-democratic forces...


Watching Virgil Earp, nephew of Wyatt Earp, on this 1958 game show is like taking a time machine to the Old West...


Will the next pope be Hungarian? A closer look at Péter Cardinal Erdő... ...


Raleigh church fire being investigated as arson...


Where does a legendary 225-year-old working warship get its parts? At the U.S. Navy forest, of course...


Vatican inconsistencies: A Tale of Two Bishops...
Edward Pentin
The contrasting recent handling by the Vatican of two bishops has highlighted concerns about discrepancies in the disciplining of bishops, with no explanation available why one of the two bishop was dismissed while the other has been allowed to remain in office. The two cases involve Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres of Arecibo, Puerto Rico...


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