“I think if people would spend a little time getting to know ... John reflects on the Gospel’s message of Jesus as a shepherd, who knows his sheep intimately and cares for them with great ...

Recently a friend described herself as lost. But after a pause, she said, “Well, lost is a place too”. I had never heard this phrase, but it struck me deeply. We are never truly lost: God knows where ...

They were, quite literally, men with little say but had big hearts to help the poorest ... He took on Vice President J.D. Vance – a fellow Catholic – when Prevost said, “Jesus does not ask us to rank ...

The emergence of 69-year old Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo xiv has reignited the age–long argument about the primacy ...

After that initial veil of tears though, crying takes on another dimension and is often put into question, often abused, or ...

When children died, heartfelt passages resurrected memories of James Agee’s “Shady Grove, Alabama, July 1936.” In Let Us Now ...

I say this because I give grace to those of us on a learning curve — I certainly have been on one. I have since learned much ...

People follow fads to fit in. And because it’s easy, which becoming Catholic is not, requiring time commitments and internal ...

OK, who do these federal district judges think they are, anyway? They can't just stop a president who was elected by a landslide from doing the people's will. Those judges weren't elected. This ...

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Pope Leo XIV will preside over his inaugural mass today in front of St Peter’s Basilica, which marks the formal start of his ...

Asked whether it was unexpected for an American to be elected, Father Reese said: “Oh yeah, shocking.” Robert Prevost, who has just been announced as the new pope, will be known as Pope Leo XIV.