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International Theological Commission: Human life is a vocation
New Vatican-approved document weighs challenges posed by AI and social media. […]
Month: March 2026
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Meet the artist behind the 47 paintings supporting Sister Thea Bowman’s cause for canonization
Brother Mickey McGrath, OSFS, has 47 paintings inspired by Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman that have been packaged into boxes and sent to Rome for review to advance her cause for canonization. […]
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Monsignor Shea: New counseling center in Phoenix will focus on ‘inestimable dignity’ of human person
A Catholic counseling formation program centered on human dignity will open in the fall as part of a collaboration between the University of Mary and the Diocese of Phoenix. […]
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Catholic Rwandan opposition leader’s daughter speaks out ahead of her mother’s trial
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza was a wife and mother who had no intention of working in politics, but “it was her heart that was moved for the Rwandan people” that led her to human rights work. […]
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Pope Leo XIV explains the Church’s ‘human and divine dimensions’
The pope’s catechesis focused on the dogmatic constitution “Lumen gentium,” one of the pillars of Vatican II. […]
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‘2 hours to pack up’: How the Iranian conflict has upended Catholic pilgrimages in the region
The U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran brought major conflict to the Middle East and sent Christian pilgrims scrambling for safe harbor there. […]
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Redemptor Hominis: More important than ever
Forty-seven years ago, Pope John Paul II issued his first encyclical, Redemptor Hominis (The Redeemer of Man). The first letter in the centuries-old encyclical tradition devoted to the Christian idea of the human person, Redemptor Hominis was also what […]
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How to Write Well – and Why (The Catholic Thing): “Bad writing suggests confused and lazy thinking. We fix, or at least improve, our reasoning skills by reading – books of substance, lots of them, varied and […]
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Iraqi archbishop laments spread of Iranian conflict, communication barrier with Tehran archbishop
Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of Erbil, Iraq, shared the situation on the ground for the Iraqi Christian community with “EWTN News Nightly” as the prospect of broader regional war looms. […]
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‘This work is about hope:’ University of St. Mary prison education program centers on human dignity
University of St. Mary, a Catholic liberal arts university in Leavenworth, Kansas, offers a prison education program as part of its Catholic mission. English professor Leanna Brunner devotes much of her time to educating prisoners […]