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Synod office releases “The Path of Implementation of the Synod” for 2028 ecclesial assembly

May 21, 2026 Victoria Cardiel 37

A new Vatican document outlines four stages for local Churches, bishops’ conferences, and continental bodies to assess how synodality is taking root after the 2021–2024 Synod on Synodality. […]

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The Saint who made peace with revolutionaries, pennilessness, and his mother

May 21, 2026 Dawn Beutner 2

When he died on May 21, 1861, Charles-Eugène de Mazenod was mourned by French Catholics as a steadfast bishop, a zealous religious founder, and a humble and inspirational preacher. A century later, Pope Saint John […]

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Agreement allows daily pastoral access at Illinois ICE facility, faith leaders say

May 20, 2026 Madalaine Elhabbal 51

A Chicago-based Catholic and Christian advocacy group said it has struck a deal allowing “daily pastoral visits” to a federal immigration facility in Broadview, Illinois. […]

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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, May 20, 2026

May 20, 2026 CWR Staff 21

Fr. James Martin: The “Mastermind” Behind the Two Testimonies in the Vatican’s Synod Report on Homosexuality (Diane Montagna’s Substack): “Jesuit Father James Martin was a key figure behind the inclusion of two testimonies in the […]

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Two of Fulton Sheen’s nieces to participate in beatification events in September

May 19, 2026 Jim Graves 6

Fulton Sheen was the oldest of four boys born to Newton and Delia Sheen in Illinois. One sibling, Joseph, died of a heart attack in 1955, while the other two died in the 1970s shortly […]

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Vatican to publish Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical May 25

May 18, 2026 Hannah Brockhaus 9

The pope signed ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ (“Magnificent Humanity”) on May 15, the 135th anniversary of the publication of the landmark social encyclical ‘Rerum Novarum.’ […]

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The “Ascension Sunday” absurdity

May 18, 2026 George Weigel 70

ROME. I missed the Ascension again this year, not from any slovenliness or laxity on my part, but because I was in Rome: the center of the Catholic world. Why, you ask? Because in the […]

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Chad’s lay faithful join bishops in condemning rising violence, insecurity

May 17, 2026 Ngala Killian Chimtom 1

Chad’s typically reserved Catholic leaders has issued a rare and strong denunciation of the country’s worsening security situation, as well as the government’s drift toward totalitarianism. On May 12, 2026, the Union of Christian Executives […]

The Dispatch

“Enthusiastic” Converts and Conspiracies

May 17, 2026 Karl Keating 25

I’m not a convert to the Catholic faith, but I have known lots of converts. You get to know lots of converts if you’ve worked in Catholic apologetics for, oh, 47 years. Most converts settle […]

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Vatican sets up commission on artificial intelligence

May 17, 2026 Marco Mancini 9

Pope Leo XIV approved the new body as the Vatican prepares for his first encyclical, expected to address artificial intelligence through the lens of Catholic social teaching. […]

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