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‘Someone has to roll up their sleeves’: Meet the 23-year-old Catholic restoring France’s statues
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (1155+ words) Temperatures climbed so high in France this summer that wildfires forced mass evacuations, Champagne grapes were harvested exceptionally early, the Louvre closed in the afternoons, and the field at the historic Parc des Princes stadium turned brown. With the mercury…...
Starting Seven: September 10, 2026
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (63+ words) The Pillar Starting Seven: September 10, 2026 Welcome to Starting Seven, The Pillar’s daily newsletter. I’m Luke Coppen and I seek to guide you each weekday morning to the most interesting Catholic news and commentary. There will be no Starting Seven tomorrow,…...
Where is the Torreciudad shrine dispute headed?
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (1494+ words) A Spanish newspaper has published alleged letters from Pope Francis, suggesting the late pope supported the bishop of Barbastro in a dispute with Opus Dei about the Marian shrine in his diocese. The publication of the allegedly leaked letters comes…...
Starting Seven: September 9, 2026
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (35+ words) The Pillar Welcome to Starting Seven, The Pillar’s daily newsletter. I’m Luke Coppen and I aim to guide you each weekday morning to the most interesting Catholic news and commentary....
Papal synodality: Why Pope Leo gave Eastern Churches the power to remove Patriarchs
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (833+ words) Twenty-three Eastern Catholic Churches are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome. Six are headed by a patriarch: the Coptic, Syriac, Melkite Greek, Maronite, Chaldean, and Armenian Catholic Churches. Four more are headed by a major archbishop, an office…...
French victims ask Pope Leo to take action on spiritual abuse
4+ day, 2+ min ago (988+ words) A group of more than 200 victims of spiritual abuse and their relatives is asking Pope Leo XIV to take concrete steps to prevent and respond to instances of spiritual abuse within the Church. In a Sept. 7 letter, published in La…...
The numbers game, buy now, and the boys online
4+ day, 13+ min ago (1822+ words) JD is away this week on a long overdue family vacation, so you’re stuck with me today. Please join me in praying for him to have a restful time of it, and for the sanity of Mrs. Flynn, who now…...
Synod study group proposes commission to assess ‘ad limina’ visits
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (1112+ words) The Catholic Church needs an “independent ecclesiastical commission” to evaluate bishops’ ad limina visits. That is one of the conclusions of a nine-page document released Sept. 8 by the Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod on the visits that regional groupings…...
Starting Seven: September 8, 2026
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (35+ words) The Pillar Welcome to Starting Seven, The Pillar’s daily newsletter. I’m Luke Coppen and I seek to guide you each weekday morning to the most interesting Catholic news and commentary....
Starting Seven: September 7, 2026
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (35+ words) The Pillar Welcome to Starting Seven, The Pillar’s daily newsletter. I’m Luke Coppen and I aim to guide you each weekday morning to the most interesting Catholic news and comment....