The Love That Burns, the Moral of the Message, and Against Golf Resorts...
The bishops of the United States yesterday consecrated the country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I think there can be a tendency to give events like these only a passing and even slightly patronizing notice. How many times has the country been consecrated to one or other title of Christ and Our Lady over the years?
Prayer Reshapes Our Inner Landscape...
Kingdom of Priests: A Reflection on the Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time...
The words God speaks to Israel in today’s First Reading are intended for us as well. The Church is the fulfillment of God’s covenant promises to Israel, a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. In the Church, we have been gathered as the new “Israel of God.” He has made us His own people, the flock He tends, as we sing in today’s Psalm. Moses was Israel’s first shepherd...
Pope Leo Xiv Finishes His Trip to Spain with Mass, Meetings in Canary Islands...
Msgr. James Shea on the One Thing You Need to Overcome Mediocrity...
I was the translator for the last surviving priest of Dachau, who died last year at the age of 102. I asked him, ‘What do you think of your life?’ And he said, ‘Well, I’m grateful, of course, but I’m also ashamed. ... Part of it’s just survivor’s guilt. I lived and my brothers died. But there’s this other thing. I was a mediocre priest and it took Dow to get the mediocrity out of my priesthood. I was a mediocre priest.’
The Great If: Being Prophet Pilled...
Is Western Civilization, America, perhaps even modern Christianity, on a one-way ticket to hell in the proverbial handbasket? Or are things really getting better all the time? The End is Near or Morning in America? Black pill or white pill? The answer I wish to propose is “neither.” If we are to take our pill, the best one to take is the one proffered by all the prophets...
61 New Beetles Discovered in China, Hiding in Plain Sight...
What Does Re-Presentation of Calvary Mean?
Many Protestants and even some Catholics struggle with the idea that the Holy Mass is a memorial sacrifice that re-presents the one sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. What could such a teaching possibly mean, and where is it to be found in Scripture? We’ll tackle this twofold question by reflecting on the mystery in three distinct stages.
España, Papal Anniversaries, and the Toy Story Story...
Pope Leo is in Spain, and Ed and I are heading to Orlando today for the spring meeting of the U.S. bishops’ conference. I’ll get to both those things in just a minute. But first: Pope Leo XIV celebrates next week the 44th anniversary of his priestly ordination, which took place June 19, 1982 at Santa Monica degli Agostiniani, in Rome.
‘The Sheep Detectives’ and the Revenge of the Smart Family Film...
Seen any sheep lately? Well, I sure have. There are more sheep in Ireland than there are people. I suspect the stats in Scotland are similar and I KNOW that sheep (and brilliant sheepdogs) rule the Shetland Islands. You can look it up. However, I am in the worst possible situation to get to view the summer movie that I most want to see...
How a Blind Taste Competition Launched the American Wine Industry...
Eucharistic Adoration: A Neglected Spiritual Weapon...
Ontario Appeals Court Says Sexual Assault Suit Against Father Thomas Rosica Can Proceed...
The Truth Behind Angels Landing, America's Deadliest Hike...
Under Notre Dame Cathedral, a ‘dig of the century’ unearths 1,700 years of history...
Pope Leo XIV Names EWTN News President Montse Alvarado as Prefect of Dicastery for Communication...
Leo Makes His First Major Change to Canon Law, Amends Monastery Dismissal Process...
This Sunday, the Trinity Means We Are Not the Children of Divorce...
Gone Home, a Modest Proposal, and AI and Dog Reiki...
There’s a reason we don’t have birds the size of elephants...
AI Has a Bias Toward Catholicism, Say LDS Researchers...
Pope Leo Urges Priests to Respect ‘Norms of the Liturgy’ to Avoid Confusion at Mass...
Your Parish Is Fighting (and Losing) the Last War...
AI-Generated Coat of Arms Sparks Online Jokes in Vietnam’s Largest Archdiocese...
Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion Released After ‘Drug Possession’ Arrest by Czech Police...
Full Text: Encyclical Letter Magnifica Humanitas...
Tolkien, Beethoven, MLK, and Hannah Arendt: The voices that resonate in Magnifica Humanitas...
Pentecost Has a Deeper Meaning Than You Realize...
Why Did Jesus Leave Again After His Resurrection?
Pope Leo in Acerra: ‘Let Us Take Responsibility and Serve Life’...
This Sunday, Jesus Christ’s Last Breath Is a Driving Wind That Fills the Earth With Fire...
We are busy that we might have leisure...
In Aristotle and Aquinas’s mind everything comes down to leisure—that is, if we understand the term as they do. So I never tire of trying to understand it, and of revisiting key statements about it. One of my favorite lines gives a great angle into one of the foremost challenges of our time: that we are so ‘busy’...
This Sunday, Jesus Sees Sheep Without a Shepherd and Makes Us a Kingdom of Priests...
Our Lord is well aware of the problems we face, but he doesn’t intend to make the problems go away by a miracle for our comfort. He wants us to pray that he will send more laborers into the field. In other words, we must accept that he is both the master of the situation, and that he wants his graces to reach mankind through apostles like us.
Why the Church Celebrates the Sacred Heart (Not a Brain)...
Every June, the Church celebrates the Sacred Heart of Jesus — and this Sunday's Gospel shows us Jesus moved with compassion for the crowds, like sheep without a shepherd. But why the heart? Why not the Sacred Intellect or the Sacred Will? In this Sunday reflection, we unpack why the Church's devotion to the Sacred Heart isn't sentimentalism...
Here Are 3 Big Differences Between AI and Human Intelligence...
The Strength of Jimmy Lai and the Weakness of Emperor Xi...
At his May summit in Beijing, President Trump made an effort to convince Chinese leader Xi Jinping to release Jimmy Lai from his imprisonment in Hong Kong. Jimmy, whom I am honored to call a friend, is a 78-year-old diabetic who has been in solitary confinement...
Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ Is a Catholic Classic for Everyone...
The Catholic Conversion of the Real ‘Mrs. Robinson’...
NASA Website Lets You See Your Name Spelled Out by Landsat Satellites...
St. Norbert, Scourge of Demons ... and Spiders...
There’s a strange comfort to be found in the dysfunctional corners of Church history. It’s not that the clerical corruption, lax discipline, bad theology and miserable leadership of the past allows us to shrug our shoulders, mutter a world-weary, “’Twas ever thus,” and wonder what’s a body to do when we encounter the same problems today...
Unveiling the Devotion to the Sacred Heart...
In Christian antiquity, there was a consistent and prevailing message preached by the Apostles that was handed down to the presbyters, Popes, and future Bishops and Priests that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, loved us infinitely and demonstrated His love in death. The importance of handing on how Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead...
Pope Leo XIV in Barcelona Calls Catholics to Be ‘Witnesses and Prophets of Unity’...
Why Pope Leo Quoted J.R.R. Tolkien’s Gandalf...
There has been much discussion of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which tackles the dangers and challenges of new technology, especially artificial intelligence. This is the latest in a series of papal documents addressing contemporary social issues that began with Pope Leo XIII’s groundbreaking 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.
This Sunday, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Adventure of the Eucharist...
How the US Civil War Turned the Continental Divide Into a Geographic Icon...
Corpus Christi, ‘Come Una Madre’, and Real Beer...
Is the Church as Troubled as the SSPX Claims?
A Cure for Clerical Loneliness: 8 Diocesan Priests Find Brotherhood Under One Roof...
Michilimackinac, Montse, and Throwin’ Bones...
Reporting Catholic News to the Secular World — the Side Hustle in Catholic Media...
How Can God Become Man If God Can’t Change?
Pope Leo’s Sunday Angelus: In the Most Holy Trinity, ‘We Are at Home’...
Wyszyński, Paul VI and the Polish Millennium...
What might the Pope do about ‘Traditionis custodes?’ Here are his options...
Peter Picks a Peck of Pickled Peppers...
‘Now I’ll Have to Become Catholic’: Social Media Reacts to Pope Leo’s Warning About AI...
The ‘Secret Club’ No One Wants: Growing Up as a Child of Divorce...
Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation...
National Eucharistic Pilgrimage Honors Georgia Martyrs Ahead of Historic Beatification...
Live Updates: Theologians Analyze and React to Magnifica Humanitas...
Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas: ‘AI Must Serve Humanity, Not Concentrate Power’...
Pope Leo XIV on Pentecost: ‘The Paraclete Enlightens Minds and Protects Us’...
Deism and the Declaration of Independence...
God and Robots, the End of a Synod, and a Recipe for Joy...
The culture of death loses one — for the moment...
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The Complete List of Popes
- St. Peter (32-67)
- St. Linus (67-76)
- St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88)
- St. Clement I (88-97)
- St. Evaristus (97-105)
- St. Alexander I (105-115)
- St. Sixtus I (115-125)
- St. Telesphorus (125-136)
- 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)
- St. Zephyrinus (199-217)
- 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)
- St. Eutychian (275-283)
- St. Caius (283-296)
- St. Marcellinus (296-304)
- St. Marcellus I (308-309)
- St. Eusebius (309 or 310)
- 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)
- St. Hilarius (461-68)
- St. Simplicius (468-83)
- St. Felix III (II) (483-92)
- St. Gelasius I (492-96)
- Anastasius II (496-98)
- St. Symmachus (498-514)
- St. Hormisdas (514-23)
- St. John I (523-26)
- St. Felix IV (III) (526-30)
- Boniface II (530-32)
- 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)
- Romanus (897)
- Theodore II (897)
- John IX (898-900)
- Benedict IV (900-03)
- Leo V (903)
- Sergius III (904-11)
- Anastasius III (911-13)
- Lando (913-14)
- John X (914-28)
- 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)
- John XIX (1024-32)
- Benedict IX (1032-45)
- 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)
- Adrian V (1276)
- 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)
- Benedict XII (1334-42)
- Clement VI (1342-52)
- 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)
- Eugene IV (1431-47)
- Nicholas V (1447-55)
- Callistus III (1455-58)
- Pius II (1458-64)
- Paul II (1464-71)
- Sixtus IV (1471-84)
- Innocent VIII (1484-92)
- Alexander VI (1492-1503)
- Pius III (1503)
- Julius II (1503-13)
- Leo X (1513-21)
- Adrian VI (1522-23)
- Clement VII (1523-34)
- Paul III (1534-49)
- Julius III (1550-55)
- Marcellus II (1555)
- Paul IV (1555-59)
- Pius IV (1559-65)
- St. Pius V (1566-72)
- Gregory XIII (1572-85)
- Sixtus V (1585-90)
- Urban VII (1590)
- 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)
- Clement XIII (1758-69)
- Clement XIV (1769-74)
- Pius VI (1775-99)
- Pius VII (1800-23)
- Leo XII (1823-29)
- Pius VIII (1829-30)
- Gregory XVI (1831-46)
- Blessed Pius IX (1846-78)
- Leo XIII (1878-1903)
- St. Pius X (1903-14)
- Benedict XV (1914-22)
- Pius XI (1922-39)
- Pius XII (1939-58)
- St. John XXIII (1958-63)
- St. Paul VI (1963-78)
- John Paul I (1978)
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- Benedict XVI (2005-2013)
- Francis (2013-2025)
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