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Why Are Babies Most Cradled on the Left Side?
Carrie Gress
Thinking back to when my children were babies, I remember carrying each on my left side. Being right-handed, it seemed to make sense to hold a baby on the left so my right hand was free to do other things. My husband, however, who is left-handed, said he carried our children on the left side because it was his dominant hand...

Meet the Swiss Guard: 500 Years of Protecting the Pope...
Clemente Lisi
The U.S. president has the Secret Service as protection. The pope has the Swiss Guard. Who are these men donning multi-colored uniforms designed during the Middle Ages who march around St. Peter’s Square? It all dates back to the late 1400s, when guardsmen began serving the Papal States. In 1505 the Swiss bishop Matthaus Schiner, who later became a cardinal...

Texas Carmelite Nuns Affiliate With SSPX After Yearlong Feud With Fort Worth Bishop...

The Pope and Other Religions...
Archbishop Charles Chaput
Pope Francis has the habit, by now well established, of saying things that leave listeners confused and hoping he meant something other than what he actually said.At the end of his recent trip to Singapore, the pope left his prepared remarks for an interreligious group of young people and offered some general reflections about religion. Since his comments were extemporaneous, they naturally lacked the precision that a prepared text would normally possess, and so hopefully what he said is not quite what he meant.

Let’s Take a Hard Look at the Fruits of the Vatican-Beijing Agreement...
Phil Lawler
During his exchange with reporters on his return trip from Signapore last week, Pope Francis said that the Vatican’s secret agreement with Beijing on the appointment of new bishops offers “a promise and a hope.” The Pontiff was upbeat about the future of Vatican relations with China, and about the outcome of that agreement. “The result is good,” he said...

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Servant of All: A Reflection on the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time...
Scott Hahn
In today’s First Reading, it’s like we have our ears pressed to the wall and can hear the murderous grumblings of the elders, chief priests, and scribes—who last week Jesus predicted would torture and kill Him (see Mark 8:31; 10:33–34). The liturgy invites us to see this passage from the Book of Wisdom as a prophecy of the Lord’s Passion. We hear His enemies complain that “the Just One” has challenged their authority, reproached them for breaking the law of Moses, for betraying their training as leaders and teachers.

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Inspired partly by Jordan Peterson, young men in Finland are baffling experts by becoming Orthodox monks...

Body of Gregory Peter XV Agagianian, Armenian Patriarch on Path to Possible Sainthood, Returns to Lebanon...

‘The Incorruptibles’: Who Are These Mysterious Saints?
Joseph Pronechen
“You are dust,” says Genesis 3:19, “and to dust you shall return.” Every Ash Wednesday, we hear this scriptural reminder of our mortality. While the soul is immortal, the body naturally decays after death. Naturally — but not always. On Aug. 28, the Diocese of Ávila in Spain reported, “Today the tomb of St. Teresa was opened and we have verified that it is in the same condition as when it was last opened in 1914.” St. Teresa of Ávila died more than four centuries ago on Oct. 4, 1582.

Goldenmouth, Remember His Name, and No Winning...
Ed Condon
St. John is one of those saints whose feast day is a reminder to me about how vast our history is, and how much of it I barely know or understand. Sure, I have read some of his most famous works, especially when they come up in the Office of Readings. And I can tell you that as Patriarch of Constantinople his famous eloquence as a preacher got him exiled twice from his city and see, dying in Armenia.

On hacking Planned Parenthood...

Pope Francis to Singapore’s Catholics: Follow St. Francis Xavier in Spreading God’s Love...

‘Story of a Soul’ podcast brings to life the “little way” of St. Thérèse...

Following the Messiah: A Reflection on the Upcoming 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time...