If Catholics can accept the imperfections of the humans running Mass, they are likely to keep going.
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Pope Leo (and The Beatles) are right: Money can’t buy us love.
The people we meet as we go about God’s work are more important and more life-changing than any amount of money we could donate.
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JD Vance’s immigration comments are an insult to our Catholic faith
This administration wants to set itself up as somehow Christian. Let them, then, do the bare minimum: Welcome the stranger.
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How a secular pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago helped me grieve in public
The Camino, I came to realize, was more than a hike. It was a container for grief, for the notes, the photos, the names written on scallop shells, the mementos of loved ones.
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The saints aren’t flawless—and that should give us hope.
Dorothy Day once told me, “When they call you a saint it means that you are not to be taken seriously.” Yet she took saints extremely seriously.
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Archbishop Etienne: the ‘simple yet demanding’ work of peacebuilding in a nuclear-armed world
There will be no surviving a nuclear war. “Nuclear war,” said Pope Benedict XVI, “will have no victors—only victims.”
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We brought the fears of migrants in the U.S. to Pope Leo—and returned home with renewed hope.
When Pope Leo shook our hands, he looked into our faces—brown, weary, hopeful—overcome with tears of joy and hope; he saw the church that walks with the poor, the church that refuses to be silent. His kind gesture lifted the U.S. Latino community when we needed it most.
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How NFL legend Vince Lombardi’s Catholic faith inspired him to fight racism
The same coach who believed in finding God in all people became the first to regularly draft Black players in the NFL draft’s first round.
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This year’s best Catholic Halloween costumes: White Sox Pope Leo, Conclave Seagull, Luce and more
Whether you’re looking for a solo, couple or group option, these ideas will put you, we hope, in the running for “best costume” at your parish’s Halloween party.
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As ICE terrorizes my community, living with joy is an act of resistance
The people of Los Angeles have continued to resist the ICE raids and the Trump administration with seemingly ordinary moments. This is because for the oppressed, every moment of life is an act of resistance.