The absence of Mary’s bones is a telling historical anomaly, but the theological insight that accompanies it is perhaps more meaningful.
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Fulton Sheen Bet on America. Some Catholics Want to Call It Off.
Fulton Sheen saw America as fertile ground for Catholicism. The offer still stands.
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In Assisi, Pope Leo urges young people to become ‘new saints’
Pope Leo XIV traveled to Assisi Aug. 5 to celebrate the Jubilee Year of St. Francis with 2,500 young people, urging them to become the “new saints” the world needs today.
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Hidden for centuries: How newly identified St. Augustine sermons were found
Two previously unknown sermons by St. Augustine give scholars a rare new window into the mind of one of Christianity’s greatest theologians more than 1,600 years after he preached them.
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For the love of God, pick up a book
A homily on how the “end of reading” has profound implications for our society—and for the church, too.
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Pope Leo XIV exalts first American saint Cabrini as a model for Christians for her care of migrants
St. Frances Cabrini, the patron saint of migrants, is well known to many Americans for her work caring for Italian immigrants in the U.S. at the turn of the last century.
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Gaudí’s masterworks beyond Barcelona and La Sagrada Familia
Gaudí is deeply connected with his Catalonia homeland, but his journey to holiness started in Astorga, 500 miles west of Barcelona.
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Pope Leo calls Archbishop Fulton Sheen ‘a light of faith’ who touched millions with the Gospel
Pope Leo XIV praised Venerable Fulton J. Sheen on June 1 as “a light of faith, hope, and love” whose radio and television broadcasts brought the Gospel to millions of Americans—including the pope himself as a child.
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Review: A saintly variety show
In ‘Canticle,’ a page-turner of a debut novel by Janet Rich Edwards, the reader is offered the Catholic equivalent of a monster truck rally: Just when you think the story has settled into one track, it delivers a fresh surprise.