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Proclamation of St. Newman as Doctor of the Church signals Catholic revival at Oxford
When St. John Henry Newman is proclaimed a doctor of the church on Saturday, staff and students at his old university will be counting on a boost of confidence for Oxford’s once-excluded Catholics. Lord Neil Mendoza, provost of Oriel College,…
Pope Leo XIV: ‘The Church does not tolerate antisemitism’
Courtney Mares and Victoria Cardiel, Catholic News Agency Thursday, October 30, 2025 Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday strongly condemned antisemitism during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square, marking the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the…
Cardinal Cupich: Traditional Latin Mass just a spectacle
Chicago’s Blase Cupich has asserted that the Traditional Latin Mass was “more of a spectacle rather than the active participation of all the baptized.” In a reflection on the liturgical reforms which came from Sacrosanctum Concilium, one of the…
Report: 75 percent of states flunk religious freedom index
Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency Wednesday, October 29, 2025 About three-fourths of states scored less than 50 percent on Napa Legal Institute’s religious freedom index, which measures how well states safeguard religious liberty for…
Pope’s itinerary for first journey released
On Monday, the Vatican released the itinerary of Leo’s November 27th through December 2nd Apostolic Journey to Turkey and Lebanon. The trip will begin Ankara, Turkey, and will be highlighted by a visit with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. On the…
Pope: We need a humbler Church
The supreme rule in the Catholic Church is love, which compels all of the faithful to serve, not to judge, exclude or dominate others, Pope Leo XIV said. “No one should impose his or her own ideas; we must all listen to one another. No one is…
At Cardinal Burke’s Latin Mass at St. Peter’s: Too many people; not enough consecrated hosts
Tom Colsy, Catholic Herald Tuesday, October 28, 2025 With permission from Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke presided over and celebrated the Mass before an unexpectedly large congregation, with many pilgrims turned away from the…
Pope Leo: Don’t let tension between tradition & novelty become ‘harmful polarizations’
Pope Leo XIV said at a Mass on Sunday that no one in the Church “should impose his or her own ideas” and asked that tensions between tradition and novelty not become ideological contrapositions and harmful polarizations. “The supreme rule in the…
Former Anglican bishop predicts new wave of conversions to Catholic Church
The recent historic Vatican visit by King Charles III coincided with a deepening division in the worldwide Anglican Communion. “The Church of England has clearly decided to go the way of liberal Protestant denominations, abandoning any claims to…
After losing in the Supreme Court, Wisconsin seeks to eliminate charitable deductions
The Court in June unanimously ruled that the state violated the First Amendment when it denied a tax exemption to Wisconsin’s Diocese of Superior Catholic Charities Bureau. The state argued that the group’s charitable undertakings were not…