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Major-League Mass: When chaplains, players and staff gather for prayer, ballparks become cathedrals.
Masses and other religious services are not what one might expect to find in a baseball stadium—but for many MLB players, they are a Sunday pregame staple.
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Will the ’Nova Knicks pay a visit to Pope Leo?
The Knicks are the 2026 N.B.A. champions. And New York right now may be the closest thing to heaven on earth.
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Review: The joy of fandom
There are any number of excellent books about sports that shine a spotlight on particular teams or seasons or even players, but Michael Schur and Joe Posnanski’s “Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love” is the new standard for celebrating the multifaceted nature of fandom itself.
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World Cup kicks off amid passion and protests in Mexico
Mexican bishops released a statement urging soccer fans to not forget the issues in the country.
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Ten Catholic reasons to watch the World Cup
For all its institutional messiness, it’s impossible to ignore the World Cup. Here are 10 reasons for “America” readers to watch.
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What’s it like to teach a future pope?
This week on “Jesuitical”, Ashley McKinless and Zac Davis talk to Dianne Bergant, C.S.A., who taught Scripture at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago for 44 years. During her time at CTU, Sr. Dianne had one very famous student, Robert Prevost—the future Pope Leo XIV.
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Celebrating faith and FIFA: Italian-American community welcomes soccer legends
An Italian language Mass served as the kickoff to a day-long event that also included a Q&A and a FIFA Legends Match featuring eight retired Italian soccer stars.
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The Enhanced Games are like the Olympics with steroids. What would Pope Leo think?
The founder of the Enhanced Games has said that he is “on a mission to build a new superhumanity.” This is precisely what “Magnifica Humanitas” warns against.
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Oligarchs can’t ruin the World Cup
The beautiful game has never belonged to the authoritarians who host it. It’s always been ours, and it’s up to us to keep it that way.