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Pope Leo XIV Calls Worldwide Meeting of Bishops to Chart Future of Family Ministry
Yesterday, Pope Leo XIV announced that he will convene a meeting of the presidents of Episcopal Conferences in October 2026 to undertake a new phase of “synodal discernment” on the future of family ministry. The announcement came in a message…
Lay leader who criticized Cardinal Cupich phased out of Catholic Conference Board
Nearly six months after publicly criticizing Cardinal Blase Cupich’s plan to give a “lifetime achievement” award to pro-abortion-rights Senator Dick Durbin, a long-serving lay member of the Catholic Conference of Illinois (CCI) board of…
Renovating the Colosseum in Rome
The Colosseum has a bright new look following a restoration using the same travertine marble of ancient Rome to recreate parts of columns from 2,000 years ago. Thousands of Romans once flocked to this arena to watch gladiators battle each other…
Easter Boom? U.S. dioceses say rise in new Catholics may point to regional ‘revivals’
While the religiously unaffiliated are on the rise globally, something curious is also happening: Some dioceses have reported significant upticks in adults preparing to enter the Catholic Church this Easter. Sherry Anne Weddell, the co-founder…
Free Spirits – The Catholic Thing
In an effort to understand Hieronymus Bosch, I have been reading about the “movers and shakers” who first conceived of our modern world. Bosch presents the fantasies of these heretics, I think, without being entirely a heretic himself. It is…
Happy Feet Friday
From 1945, here's Artie Shaw and his orchestra with the Great American Songbook standard, "Summertime" (that's Roy Eldridge performing the trumpet solo). Source link
How Israel Fooled Trump Into War With Iran, According to Joe Kent
“How did Donald Trump, after 10 years of saying one thing, do, in the pivotal act of his presidency, exactly the opposite?”Popular commentariat Tucker Carlson posed this question at the beginning of his anticipated interview with the former…
How Israel Fooled Trump Into War With Iran, According to Joe Kent
“How did Donald Trump, after 10 years of saying one thing, do, in the pivotal act of his presidency, exactly the opposite?”Popular commentariat Tucker Carlson posed this question at the beginning of his anticipated interview with the former…
How Israel Fooled Trump Into War With Iran, According to Joe Kent
“How did Donald Trump, after 10 years of saying one thing, do, in the pivotal act of his presidency, exactly the opposite?”Popular commentariat Tucker Carlson posed this question at the beginning of his anticipated interview with the former…
Professor Kicked Off Catholic Board After Criticizing Cupich’s Pro-Abortion Award
A Loyola University Chicago law professor and long-time board member of the Catholic Conference of Illinois (CCI) is being involuntarily removed from his position. The removal is due to his public criticism of Cardinal Blase Cupich’s plan last…