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Quarterback Fernando Mendoza’s Faith Bigger Than Football
1+ week, 4+ day ago (788+ words) For Fernando Mendoza, football has never been the whole story. Even at the height of his extraordinary 2025 season at Indiana — when he led the Hoosiers to an undefeated national championship, won the Heisman Trophy and transformed himself from an overlooked…...
📽️ ‘American Martyr’: Slain Priest’s Canonization Cause Hits The Big Screen 🔌
3+ week, 1+ day ago (991+ words) OKLAHOMA CITY — María Ruiz Scaperlanda is looking for a miracle. More specifically, she’s seeking a miracle that can be attributed — and authenticated — to the intercession of Blessed Stanley Francis Rother. That’s the final step for Rother — the first person born…...
⚾️ Chicago White Sox Give Away 40,000 Pope Hats: 5 Things To Know 🔌
4+ week, 1+ day ago (1234+ words) “Best day at work ever.” That’s how my friend Bob Smietana responded when I asked if he enjoyed covering “Pope Night” at the Chicago White Sox game Tuesday — as the team gave away 40,000 miter-shaped hats in honor of its most…...
A Bishop’s Open Letter To Pope Leo XIV Asks A Hard Question
3+ week, 2+ day ago (496+ words) (ANALYSIS) Cardinals, archbishops and bishops have many ways to communicate with Vatican officials, and even with the pope himself, outside of occasional personal meetings. In the digital age, one blunt way to reach Pope Leo XIV is to write a…...
Remembering The Priest Who Showed Up — And The 9/11 Walk That Honors Him
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (483+ words) (ANALYSIS) Twenty-five years is a long time. For New York, it’s enough time for a new generation to grow up knowing Sept. 11 only as history. It is enough time for neighborhoods to change, buildings to rise, children to become parents…...
Farmer‑Poet Wendell Berry’s Environmental Ethics Rooted In His Christian Faith
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (894+ words) (ANALYSIS) For most of his 92 years, Wendell Berry farmed his Lane’s Landing homestead in Henry County, Kentucky, using methods that embraced the land. He preferred draft horses to diesel-powered tractors and used crop rotation and manure fertilizer to naturally nurture…...
Iranians In Chains: Sounds From Hell And Of Resistance
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (1594+ words) A doorbell. The faulty fan of a car. Banging on a metal door. Screaming and crying. A hymn. A bird singing at dawn. What could these sounds possibly have in common? They are all part of the acoustic world of…...
The Coolest Job In Kenya Is Being A Catholic Priest
2+ week, 3+ day ago (785+ words) NAIROBI, Kenya — St. Mary's Propaedeutic Seminary, located in the Kenyan Rift Valley, was built to accommodate about 75 seminarians. Today, more than 300 seminarians live there. Church officials say the seminary has not been able to keep pace with the number of…...
Iranian Christians Face Rising Persecution As Dozens Killed, Hundreds Arrested
2+ week, 4+ day ago (621+ words) Dozens of Christians are among those killed and imprisoned amid rising persecution in Iran, Texas-based Iran Alive Ministries told Baptist Press, citing cases from among its underground church network in Iran. In one of its latest moves against evangelism, the…...
Crossroads Podcast: Why Are There So Few Nuns These Days?
3+ week, 1+ day ago (982+ words) About 25 years ago, I wrote two “On Religion” columns examining the Church of Rome’s priest shortage — through the eyes of faithful mothers, with the help of a priest who had led a seminary. The headline: “Fathers, mothers & Catholic sons.” The…...