There’s another basilica called St. Peter’s in Rome, located near the Colosseum. San Pietro in Vincoli (“St. Peter in Chains”) is a minor basilica that gets its own share of visitors, many of whom come for just one reason. Therein lies the…
This year marks the centennial of the institution of the Solemnity of Christ the King. Pope Pius XI published the encyclical Quas primas on December 11, 1925, which sketched the theology and announced the new feast of the “Kingship of Our Lord…
Catholic leaders across the United States are urging Catholics to join a nationwide prayer vigil in January aimed at ending abortion and promoting a culture of respect for all human life. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced plans…
Daniel Payne, Catholic News Agency Friday, November 21, 2025 Advocates in New York state are petitioning a Catholic foundation there to help fund major pension shortages and church preservation efforts as well as to help support victims of…
The University of Notre Dame has dropped the school’s historic Catholic mission from its staff values and adopted a “refreshed” set of generic concepts like “community” instead, though it will still identify as a “Catholic research university.”…
During the University’s staff town halls on Oct. 29 and 30, the University’s vice president for human resources, Heather Christophersen, announced a new set of “ND Values.” The previous list included a value that called for staff acceptance and…
U.S. Catholic bishops voted Wednesday to officially ban “transgender” surgeries at all Catholic hospitals and health centers, formalizing the Church’s opposition to medical interventions intended to make a person appear more like the opposite…
Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency Friday, November 14, 2025 The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) approved a new translation of the Bible, which will be used for personal Bibles, the lectionary at Mass, and the text in the…
Tiffany Stanley, Associated Press/Crux Friday, November 14, 2025 U.S. Catholic bishops have voted to make official a ban on gender-transition care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals. The step formalizes a yearslong process for the…
One of the wonders of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is its ability to completely engross the reader. The world Tolkien conjured up, though obviously fictional and fancifully so, is also unmistakably our world. And this was…
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