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Kendrick Castillo, lone fatality at 2019 STEM school shooting, could become a saint
Kendrick Castillo, the lone fatality at the STEM school shooting in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, on May 7, 2019. (Photo courtesy of John...

Catholic News Agency
Sep 54 min read


How to watch the canonizations of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati
Pilgrims gather in St. Peter’s Square for a Mass and canonization of 14 new saints on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (Photo: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA)...

Catholic News Agency
Sep 54 min read


Ukraine and a peace worthy of the name
(Photo: Pexels) Pope Leo XIV’s spiritual lodestar is St. Augustine. In his first months in office, the Holy Father summoned the Church to...

George Weigel
Aug 273 min read


James Dobson, promoter of family values in the public square, dies at 89
(Photo: Focus on the Family/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0) By Amira Abuzeid/CNA James Dobson, the evangelical Christian psychologist,...

Catholic News Agency
Aug 215 min read


Pope Leo XIV invites Church to pray and fast for peace on Queenship of Mary feast day
Pope Leo XIV greets a young papal admirer in St. Peter’s Basilica during the general audience on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, at the...

Catholic News Agency
Aug 203 min read


Our age of martyrdom
Bl. Miguel Pro was but one of the thousands of martyrs who gave their lives for the faith in the twentieth century. Their stories are...

George Weigel
Aug 203 min read


Praying for Peace in the Holy Land: A Call to Prayer and Trust in God
A street in northern Gaza pictured in the aftermath of the siege during the initial phase of the 2025 ceasefire. (Photo: Jaber Jehad...

Denver Catholic Staff
Jul 304 min read


The perils of polarization
(Photo: Unsplash) CRACOW — Adam Michnik was one of the great wordsmiths of the revolution of conscience that began to form in mid-1970s...

George Weigel
Jul 233 min read


Living Without Fear: A Catholic Response to Terror Threats and Global Tension
(Photo: Unsplash) By Deacon Ernest Martinez When missiles fly between nations and headlines warn of rising terror threats, the natural...

Guest Contributor
Jul 214 min read


Holy, Independent: Meet 12 of the Many Americans on the Path to Sainthood
A look at some of the many American men and women poised for sainthood. (Top L-R) Joseph Verbis Lafleur, Michelle Duppong, Father...

National Catholic Register
Jul 198 min read


Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate
(Photo: Unsplash) "Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate” was printed on the punch cards that fed data into IBM computers in the 1950s, when...

George Weigel
Jul 163 min read


The Texas Floods: How to Answer Your Children Who Are Asking Questions
A call to prayer from a 9-year old who just wanted to know the answer to one question: ‘Did the girls who died go straight to heaven?...

National Catholic Register
Jul 114 min read


Independence Day #249
(Photo: Lightstock, edited) In the twelve months leading up to next year’s American semiquincentennial, the tale will frequently be told...

George Weigel
Jul 23 min read


Pope Leo XIV invites seminarians to bear witness to ‘tenderness’ and ‘mercy’ of Christ
The pontiff warned of the risk of a superficial spiritual life “in an age of hyperconnectivity” in which it becomes increasingly...

Catholic News Agency
Jun 284 min read


Solidarity: The Path Between Nationalism and Globalism
(Photo: Lightstock) We are one human family, yet we are born as members of a particular nation. Christians are reborn as members of...

Jared Staudt
Jun 264 min read


Meeting the world to convert the world
Vatican II in session, circa 1962-1965. (Photo: Catholic Press/Wikimedia Commons) In a June post at the website Where Peter Is , author...

George Weigel
Jun 223 min read


Irish teens inspired by Carlo Acutis make Lego film of his life
Three teen brothers from Ireland have turned their admiration for Blessed Carlo Acutis into a movie called “Lego Movie — The Incredible...

Catholic News Agency
Jun 224 min read


‘The Chosen’ cast headed to Vatican for presentation, audience with Pope Leo XIV
Jesus and the disciples during Season 4 of “The Chosen.” (Photo: The Chosen/Mike Kubeisy) By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú/CNA On June 23,...

Catholic News Agency
Jun 212 min read


U.S. Catholic Bishops Announce Religious Freedom Week Theme: ‘Witnesses to Hope’
The USCCB’s annual report on the state of religious liberty expressed concerns about policies on immigration, gender ideology, abortion,...

Catholic News Agency
Jun 192 min read


Juneteenth and the life of the first Black American Catholic priest
Venerable Augustus Tolton. (Photo: Public domain) By Francesca Pollio Fenton/CNA On June 19, the United States commemorates the...

Catholic News Agency
Jun 192 min read
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