Readings: • Sir. 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 • Psa. 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11 • Heb. 12:18-19, 22-24a • Lk. 14:1, 7-14 “Humility,” the Evangelical theologian James Houston once wrote, “is moral realism.” That simple definition stuck with […]
This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council. Regardless of one’s opinion of the Council itself, it is undeniable that its aftermath saw a severe decline in the devotional […]
Police cruisers near Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, 2025, following a mass shooting that killed two children and injured 17 others, 14 of them children. / Credit: Chad Davis, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Today’s liturgical commemoration demands the answer to a fundamental question: Have you accepted the challenge to be a long-distance runner for Christ? […]
Pope Leo XIV addresses a delegation of political representatives and civic leaders from the Diocese of Créteil, France, on Aug. 28, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 28, 2025 / 12:30 pm (CNA).
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St. Paul certainly could not boast about his conversion. He didn’t read his way into the Church. He wasn’t compelled by the witness of charity. He was knocked off his proverbial horse on the way […]
Thanks to the myth of there being a perpetual war between science and religion, even broad-minded unbelievers are liable to think the faithful are trying to effect damage control when we emphasize that the Bible […]
To put it bluntly, the decision in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and State of New Jersey v. Trump, Kennedy, et al., filed on August 13, 2025, is a travesty. Blatantly ignoring two Supreme Court cases to […]
Fulton Sheen Biography – “Cheryl C. D. Hughes’ new biography of the American Catholic Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is a rare exception, one that illuminates the history of the 20th century and of the Catholic […]
A few days after our wedding, I gave up on charting my cycle. Whatever God wants, we said. Let the babies come! But less than two years later, my husband and I knelt before the […]
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