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Pope Leo is calling for “urgent” climate action, saying that God’s creation is “crying out.” Pope Francis spent much of his papacy pushing the Catholic Church to treat climate change ...

Pope Pius X's Oath Against Modernism was required to be taken by clergy, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and seminary professors of philosophy and theology from 1910 until it was ...

What did Vatican II really say about the Mass? Sacrosanctum Concilium called for the preservation of Latin, gave Gregorian chant pride of place, and emphasized continuity with the Church’s liturgical ...

When I moved cross-country in 2023, I contracted with a moving company that advertised low prices, only to learn they engaged in fraud, which required me to file suit against ...

Sixteen days. That was the interval between Bishop Lizardo Estrada Herrera carrying coca leaves into a ritual offering to Pachamama and Leo naming him coadjutor archbishop of Cuzco. The word ...

In this exclusive interview, I sit down with Ted Flynn to discuss his brand-new book, Secrets of the Book of Revelation Revealed — an extensive examination of the Book of ...

On 25 August, the daily newspaper Avvenire published an interview by Luciano Moia with the new president and vice-president of ATISM (the Italian Theological Association for the Study of Morality): ...

Certainly Scripture condemns pride, injustice, and the neglect of the poor. The prophets make that abundantly clear. But Sacred Scripture also plainly presents Sodom as a city that had rejected ...

Two Buddhist monks chanted a mantra from the ambo of a Catholic church during the funeral of a Buddhist woman held on August 20 in Como, northern Italy. The parish ...

Edgard Rimaycuna, personal secretary to Leo XIV, is a disciple of Father Eleuterio Vásquez, “Lute”, the priest from Chiclayo accused of abusing prepubescent minors aged 9 and 11. This information, ...

Ryan Burge is an account I follow on Substack and X. I recommend you do the same. He does a really good job capturing the current social data around Christianity ...

You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on ...

The biblical narrative of redemption is rendered pointless and ultimately incomprehensible in a culture that has been bleached of a real sense of the importance of moral agency—the ability to ...

There exists in the Church a way of ending procedures for abuse of minors that does not involve a sentence, does not establish facts, does not hear the victim and ...

The Catholic Church in Germany maintains, with funds from the church tax, a news agency, an official portal and an archdiocesan radio station. Between September 2 and 3, all three ...

Pope Leo XIV has called upon the presidents of the world’s Episcopal Conference to meet in Rome in October in order “to examine and discuss the teachings of Amoris Laetitia ...

Cardinal Domenico Battaglia, Archbishop of Naples, has written the foreword to Persone transgender. Scienze, teologie, pastorali, a book that brings transgender identities into the realm of theology and the Church’s ...

Fulton Sheen warned that we were living in “the days of the apocalypse” — not the end of the world, but the end of an era. In this episode of ...

Why keep talking about all of this? Why keep digging, excavating, learning, remembering, reflecting? Because it’s all still so unsettled. Because historical narratives shift, change and are theologized, spiritualized and ...

For over three decades, the allegations of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse against Slovenian Father Marko Rupnik were met with cover-ups and bureaucratic delays. In a message to a safeguarding ...

Search the Catechism, the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, or indeed the entire Vatican website—search as much as you like—and you will find no teaching on what ...