The Archdiocese of Miami celebrated the first Mass for detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Trump administration’s controversial immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.
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The chaplain who blessed the atomic bombers—and spent years fighting nuclear war
Eight decades after the end of World War II, Father George Zabelka exists as a symbol of conscience, one who can communicate the message of Gospel nonviolence.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
What does St. John Vianney have to do with me?
A Reflection for the Memorial of St. John Vianney, by J.D. Long García
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Leo’s message to Gen Z: ‘You are a sign that a different world is possible’
At a Mass for the Jubilee of Youth outside Rome, Pope Leo exhorted over a million young people to be “seeds of hope” and a “sign that a different world is possible.”
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Forgiving debt can be a justice issue
A Reflection for Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Kevin Clarke
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Rekindling my Catholic faith in the ‘fourth quarter’ of life
Perhaps it is the hard-won wisdom that comes with age, but the Catholic rituals and practices I once scorned are the same rituals and practices that now usher me into God’s presence, time and time again.
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Vatican to United Nations: Two-state solution in Israel and Palestine is ‘only’ path to lasting peace
“Only through patient and inclusive dialogue” can “a just and lasting conflict resolution can be achieved” in the long-running conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, said the Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations.
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Celebrating the feast of St. Ignatius in the shadow of war in Gaza
In these dark times, surrounded by death and destruction in Gaza, we hear the command in the first reading, “Choose life.” What are the ways we can do this in a world that seems to have gone mad?
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St. John Henry Newman will be named doctor of the church by Pope Leo
On July 31, Pope Leo XIV announced that St. John Henry Newman, English theologian, educator, and writer who converted to Catholicism after being an Anglican priest, will be named a Doctor of the Church.
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Christ the concept never saved anyone
A Homily for the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein