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On the surprising sanity of Bill Gates on climate change…

November 16, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 45

I didn’t see this coming. I could hardly believe the news article that came across my desk the other day: none other than Bill Gates was urging climate advocates to rethink their priorities and rhetoric […]

Chapp's Schtick

Reflections on Dilexi Te, the first magisterial document of Leo XIV’s papacy

October 10, 2025 Larry Chapp 97

Pope Leo XIV’s first magisterial document of his papacy, Dilexi Te (“I have loved you”), has understandably generated a lot of interest. An apostolic exhortation is a fairly low-level document in terms of the classical criteria for […]

Features

The changing fortunes of Catholic “Founding Father” in American history

July 1, 2025 Kevin Schmiesing 23

As Catholic Americans prepare to mark Independence Day, we naturally look not only to the well-known “founding fathers” such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington but also to our Catholic forbears who were […]

Columns

Cultivating the Soul: Gardening as Catechesis

June 11, 2025 Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D. 6

It has been a good stretch in the Ramage garden lately—or at least a busy one. Between harvesting greens, picking the season’s first strawberries, watering young tomato plants, and doing battle with proliferating weeds, my […]

Essay

Pope Francis, 1936-2025

April 21, 2025 Christopher R. Altieri 74

Pope Francis, who said he never wanted to be earthly head of the Catholic Church and frequently governed as though he were a simple parish priest, is dead. The 265th successor to St. Peter the […]

Analysis

Cardinal Fernandez discusses Fr. Rupnik: What did we learn?

January 25, 2025 Christopher R. Altieri 31

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is working—slowly—toward a full penal trial for the disgraced former celebrity artist-priest, Fr. Marko Rupnik (olim Fr. Marko Rupnik SJ), an accused abuser of dozens of victims, most of them […]

The Dispatch

St. Francis de Sales: Love for a loveless age

January 24, 2025 David G. Bonagura, Jr. 7

“Nothing so much presses man’s heart as love,” wrote St. Francis de Sales, whose feast day we celebrate today, in Treatise on the Love of God. “If a man know that he is beloved, be […]

No Picture
News Briefs

New cardinals say Europe is becoming the Catholic Church’s new ‘peripheries’

October 8, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

Cardinals-elect Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, SVD; Archbishop Jaime Spengler, OFM; and Archbishop Ignace Bessi Dogbohe discuss the contributions of the Church outside Europe during a Synod on Synodality press briefing on Oct. 8, 2024. / Cred… […]

Analysis

The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality

September 29, 2024 Nicholas J. Healy, Jr. 80

St. Ignatius of Loyola’s first rule for thinking with the Church is: “We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things, the […]

No Picture
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Pope Francis offered asylum to Myanmar’s imprisoned leader Aung San Suu Kyi

September 24, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis meets with Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, in the Diplomatic Corps Hall at the Vatican on Nov. 28, 2017. / Credit: L’Osservatore Romano/CNA

Vatican City, Sep 24, 2024 / 12:55 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis said he h… […]

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