Bishop Barron meets Pope Leo XIV at Vatican
Bishop Robert E. Barron met Pope Leo XIV for a private audience at the Vatican Oct 1, describing his first extended, one-on-one conversation with a pope as covering “a lot of different topics.”
Global Catholic charity head says they’re doing ‘less with less’ after Trump’s foreign aid cuts
Even as some foreign aid has been revived, pledges from donor states remain far below the world’s needs and humanitarian groups are still struggling to recover from 2025’s debilitating cuts.
French Catholicism Reborn? What happened on Pope Leo’s visit to France (and why it matters for all of us)
This week on Jesuitical, Colleen Dulle joins hosts Zac Davis and Sebastian Gomes to discuss Pope Leo’s recent visit to France, including his messages on assisted dying, European identity and the role of the Catholic Church in a secular country.
Pope Leo’s visit to France shows how the Catholic Church and a secular country are changing
Like Julius Caesar, Pope Leo XIV could say about his return from France, “veni, vidi, vici,” “I came, I saw, I conquered.”
In France, Pope Leo emerged as the global voice for ‘right to life’ of the disabled and vulnerable
The pope’s defense of life touched on some of Europe’s most contentious social questions, yet with his humble and measured manner, his message hit differently than the “culture wars” of decades past.
Dolly Parton, Jimothy the Raccoon and the Christian call to be ‘not normal’
As baptized and professed Christians, we are supposed to be different.
The call to embrace your inner child
A Reflection for the Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels, by Kevin Christopher Robles
New nuncio cautions German bishops against diverging from Rome
The new apostolic nuncio to Germany implicitly addressed the controversial Synodal Way, a three-year reform process led by the German bishops’ conference.
God’s vineyard
October 4, 2026, Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: Jesus’ parable focuses upon the care and harvest of the vineyard by tenants and the harm that could come to them, especially when the owner or his son is no longer with them.
Why God created us to wish
Why were we created by God to wish? Could we have possibly evolved into those who wish without God?
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