Pope Leo XIV’s address to the Spanish Parliament on Monday offered a reminder of something that parts of the public debate often forget: a pope is still a pope. What they heard was a Catholic speech. The post The moment Spain…
The State Department named Catholic Relief Services as the first in a round of global aid awards a year after the Trump administration closed the United States Agency for International Development. The post Catholic Relief Services…
The words of a dead man / Are modified in the guts of the living.” Neither W. H. Auden, who wrote these lines in 1939, nor W. B. Yeats, whom they concern, knew that their words would one day end up in the matrices and vector fields that…
When the classic French novel Madame Bovary first appeared in 1856, public prosecutors tarred the serial novel as obscene – outrage aux bonnes mœurs et à la religion (“an outrage to public morality and religion”) – given author Gustave…
Ever since I started teaching the Divine Comedy years ago, I’ve been on the lookout for lacunae. Just when I think I’ve found one, it turns out Dante has covered it with incomparable sagesse. Take gamblers. Why don’t we find them in Hell? Well,…
In a recent New York Times guest essay, Catholic writer David Gibson praised Pope Leo for moving his church away from “pelvic theology.” It is a way of dismissing those concerned with all matters related to sex—from abortion to LGBTQ rights to…
Catholic universities should reflect “authenticity as true disciples of Christ” as they guide students’ desire for knowledge into a passion for the truth, Pope Leo XIV told university presidents from the United States on Wednesday. …
It’s been a week since the publication of Magnifica humanitas, and I’ve been re-reading certain sections, trying to probe into it more deeply (after my own quick reactions on a recent Prayerful Posse, the very day Pope Leo’s first encyclical…
“Life is no less beautiful when it is accompanied by illness or weakness, hunger or poverty, physical or mental diseases, loneliness or old age.” These inspiring words were written by my beloved predecessor Terence Cardinal Cooke shortly before…
Catholics who sometimes worry that the Church is no longer sufficiently bold in its preaching of the Gospel might at least derive some comfort from its buildings. Sacred buildings stand a long time and carry on the convictions of those bolder…
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