Earlier this week, just a few days before the release of Dilexi te, I read a talk delivered by financier and major Catholic donor Frank Hanna III, given at the Napa Institute summer conference this past July. Nothing could possibly...
Pope Leo XIV has asked us as Catholics to pray the Rosary daily for peace throughout the month of October. The Holy Father is not alone in singling out the Rosary as our path to peace – yet we should...
In general, popes are rarely eager to set forth an agenda before the white smoke above the Sistine Chapel clears, as it were – the first six months or so of a papacy tend to be fairly quiet. The impatience...
Yesterday, after the Sunday Angelus, our Holy Father Pope Leo XIV offered this prayer intention: Our prayers for the victims of the tragic shooting during a school Mass in the American State of Minnesota include the countless children killed...
On Wednesday, Pope Leo called on the faithful to devote today, August 22nd, the Memorial of the Queenship of Mary, to fasting and prayer for peace, through the intercession of Our Lady under her title of Queen of Peace. We...
A very brief post, but all the more significant for that: Last night in Komanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an all-night Eucharistic liturgy was interrupted by men armed with guns and machetes, believed to have been members...
Last week, Pope Leo celebrated a Holy Mass for the Care of Creation at the Laudato si’ Center at Castel Gandolfo; for those wishing to reflect upon the texts from the Mass, a Latin original from the Vatican website with...
This past evening, the United States military bombed Iran. The President of the United States declared the mission a “spectacular military success,” “an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades,” and maintained that “Iran’s key...
I would willingly have served an authentic master — a royal prince or a king. You can put your two hands folded within those of another and swear faith as a vassal… Of course it’s easy enough to say that...
The conclave is convened. It will not be long before the white smoke rises above the Sistine Chapel, and our next pope dons the white cassock and steps out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. The crowds will cheer,...
Note: I wrote almost all of this before Palm Sunday. By the time I put the finishing touches on it, Monday or Tuesday of Holy Week, it seemed more appropriate to hold it until after Triduum. For obvious reasons, I...
Early this evening (UTC +1 – Rome time), the Associated Press reported that our Holy Father Pope Francis is in critical condition. Shortly thereafter, CNN reported a statement from the Vatican, that “[t]his [Saturday] morning Pope Francis presented with an...
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