Several Republican-led states have restricted transgender rights: Iowa has signed a law removing civil rights protection for transgender people; Wyoming has prohibited state agencies from requiring the use of preferred pronouns; and Alabama recently passed a law that only two sexes would be recognized. Hundreds…
Pope Leo XIV will soon have to address the call for women deacons
Like unpaid bills arriving for the inheritor of a house, reports will soon arrive on Pope Leo XIII’s desk offering possible steps to take on some of the most hot-button issues facing the Catholic Church — among them the question…
Empathy can take a toll – but 2 philosophers explain why we should see it as a strength
In an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, billionaire and Trump megadonor Elon Musk offered his thoughts about what motivates political progressives to support immigration. In his view, the culprit was empathy, which he called “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization.”
Feeding The Flock: A Nigerian Priest Uses Farming to Fight Hunger And Deliver Hope
Zachariah Fufeyin, a priest from the Catholic Diocese of Bomadi in southern Nigeria, had only one mission when he started livestock farming at Our Lady of the Waters Farm in November 2019: To help the poor and provide animal protein…
Murdered Staffer Had Deep Ties to Messianic Community in Israel
They were just days away from a marriage proposal when a gunman cut their lives short.
Catholics see a familiar political divide in Pope Leo XIV and his eldest brother
Just hours after Pope Leo XIV was announced from the loggia, his two brothers began making headlines. John Prevost, the middle brother, took an agonizingly long time to answer Leo’s first papal call, as documented by The Associated Press. Then…
Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
During the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, where bishops, archbishops, and abbots convened in 1884 to, among other issues, discuss the establishment of the Catholic University of America, the Archbishop of Minneapolis John Ireland delivered a star-spangled homily.
The Oral Majority
Any organization—business, ministry, school, whatever—typically asks what the biggest threats are to its mission. The assumption behind that exercise is that the most dangerous obstacles are those that one never sees coming.
Pete Hegseth Leads Christian Prayer Service in the Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader.
New Orleans Archdiocese agrees to pay nearly $180M to victims of clergy sexual abuse
The Archdiocese of New Orleans agreed to pay nearly $180 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement announced Wednesday, the latest in a string of settlements by the Catholic Church.
19th-century Catholic teachings, 21st-century tech: How concerns about AI guided Pope Leo’s choice of name
When Robert Francis Prevost chose the papal name Leo XIV, it could have meant many things. There were 13 Leos before him: The first, Leo the Great, was a fifth-century theologian who helped heal the doctrinal divisions among early Christians; Leo X,…
1 in 4 American Jewish adults in the United States consult astrology, survey says
Over a quarter of Jewish adults in the United States say they consult astrology or a horoscope at least once or twice a year, according to a new study.