March Madness: Your definitive guide to the 2026 Catholic teams
America’s eminent sports editors bring you the definitive Catholic preview for 2026’s Big Dance.
Cardinal Pizzaballa: Using God’s name to justify war is ‘the gravest sin’
Speaking via video link from Jerusalem at a March 15 webinar organized by the International Oasis Foundation, Cardinal Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, warned against what he described as “pseudo-religious language.”
The raising of Lazarus wasn’t a resurrection
Lazarus’ miraculous resuscitation, difficult enough to comprehend, teaches us something of resurrection, which lies utterly beyond our ken.
Top Vatican diplomat tells UN that justice for women and girls demands ‘holistic’ approach
“Ensuring access to justice for women and girls requires more than just formal legal protections. It also involves addressing the root causes that put them at risk, prevent them from seeking justice and ultimately undermine their God-given human dignity,” said Archbishop Gabriele G. Caccia, the Holy See’s permanent observer to the U.N.
Unrestrained discipleship
March 22, 2026, the Fifth Sunday of Lent: Discipleship to which we are called cannot be limited by the potential negative consequences that result.
How parents influence their children’s faith lives
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Kerry Weber
The love at the center of our St. Patrick’s Day celebrations
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Patrick, bishop, by Julian Navarro
The Spiritual Life: What is the Sacred Heart?
In my interview on “The Spiritual Life” podcast with the talented Jesuit Cristóbal Fones, S.J., now the executive director of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, we talk about his work, his prayer, the pope’s intentions, Ignatian spirituality, music and, not incidentally, the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Bishop Seitz urges ICE agents not to follow illegal deportation orders
In a pastoral letter on March 15, Bishop Mark Seitz urged immigration enforcement agents not to follow illegal orders and denounced the “grave moral evil” of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
Pope Leo to journalists: Don’t become agents of propaganda during wartime
Journalists have an “essential” task that has become “even more urgent and delicate” today, Pope Leo said, which is that of “verifying news so as not to become a mouthpiece for those in power.”
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