Weekly Update

As Catholics, let’s take Pope Leo’s encouragement and example to heart: Orthodox Christians are our brothers and sisters, and we ought to pray for a renewal of full communion.

Today’s one of those days in our common calendar that’s particularly unitive. Say thank you to someone this Thanksgiving.

Chinese Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo, who had been in and out of hiding for decades, recently died at the age of 90.

A somewhat surprising topic has made headlines lately: polygamy. Thank goodness for the Magisterium.

From the beginning the United States’s spiritual, moral, and imaginative backbone has been made up of a strange amalgam of seriously Christian ideas and a utopian vision of America's destiny.

Let’s pray for an increase in peace in our world – for less conflict and more goodwill, less violence and more understanding, less cruelty and more justice, both now and in whatever is to come.

For the Christian faith, the education of the poor is not a favor but a duty.

In Pope Leo’s election, the reality of the universal Church has come much closer to American Catholic life.

Where exactly do our allegiances to political or military institutions lie? And how perilously close to our ultimate allegiances do they – and should they – run?

Despite the fact that we moderns tend to forget, spiritual realities and immaterial persons surround us.