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Read Pope Leo XIV’s homily to Catholics at Monaco’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
The Holy Father arrived in Monaco as part of a one-day visit on March 28. […]
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Palm Sunday and four direct, confounding questions
Readings: • Mt. 21:1-11 • Isa. 50:4-7 • Psa. 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 • Phil. 2:6-11 • Mt. 26:14-27:66 When hearing a passage as dramatic as today’s Gospel, what do you focus on? What catches […]
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Opinion: A Cautious Case for the Iran War
Editor’s note: The opinions presented here are the author’s alone and should not be taken to reflect the views of the Catholic World Report staff or of Ignatius Press staff. The present war with Iran […]
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Opinion: Reclaiming the culture that made us Catholic
For too long, Catholics in the United States—myself included—have treated the Church as an extension of our political identities, a sociological distortion that has carried the language, loyalties, and resentments of the culture wars straight […]
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Finnish court finds Christian parliamentarian guilty of ‘hate speech’
The Supreme Court of Finland has acquitted Päivi Räsänen over her 2019 Bible verse tweet and found her guilty of hate speech over a pamphlet she wrote more than 20 years ago. […]
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“Common sense won out” as state puts children’s interests “above divisive ideologies”
Recent controversies have swirled around whether Christians holding true to their deeply held religious beliefs can serve as foster and/or adoptive parents for children because of state-mandated gender ideology mandates. However, the tide may be […]
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Venerable Fulton Sheen beatification set for Sept. 24 in St. Louis
The announcement of the beatification Mass in Missouri fell on the the solemnity of the Annunciation, as Sheen “spent his life continuing the work of the Archangel Gabriel.” […]
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Why the Annunciation stands at the center of the drama of salvation
On this solemnity, which celebrates the high-water mark in the history of salvation, permit me to explore with you three Latin expressions. 1. Verbum caro factum est [The Word became flesh]. We find this line, of […]
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The Donatist Comeback
My Lenten reading has included an interesting, if somewhat odd, book about the greatest of the Latin Fathers of the Church: Augustine the African by Catherine Conybeare, a philologist currently teaching at Bryn Mawr. The interesting part […]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Bishop Barron pains the Catholic Left. He heartens the rest of us. (Catholic Culture): “Steven Greydanus, a deacon of the Archdiocese of Newark and former film critic for the National Catholic Register, has penned a “longread” Substack […]