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The Catholic Observer
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Catholic Voices: The U.S. bishops are speaking out forcefully on politics — and finally being heard

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1024+ words) By Sam Sawyer, S.J., America: The Jesuit Review, September 8, 2026 When the Catholic Church speaks up about politics, who is it who decides what to say? When the Church says something on a contentious political issue, however, we are often tempted to…...

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Catholic Voices: Under Pope Leo XIV, MAGA Country Catholics Are Standing Up to Trump

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (372+ words) By Christopher Hale, Letters from Leo Last August I wrote that Catholics in MAGA country had become the most visible, organized counterweight to Donald Trump’s ICE raids, and I counted six red states to prove it. Dan Merica of The…...

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Catholic Voices: Pope Leo Is Changing U.S. Catholicism. The first U.S.-born pontiff takes up issues on which the American polity hungers for moral guidance.

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (375+ words) By E. J. Dionne Jr., Commonweal, September 1, 2026 This is an orientation straight out of the American progressive tradition emphasizing countervailing power: if the power of the state should be limited to protect the rights of private and community actors, the concentration of…...

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Pope Leo Becomes First Pontiff to Join Feast of Our Lady of the Lake Boat Procession In Castel Gandolfo

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (748+ words) Pope Leo XIV became the first pontiff in history to cross Lake Albano during the annual Feast of Our Lady of the Lake boat procession Saturday evening in Castel Gandolfo, the summer retreat of popes for the past four centuries....

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Vatican Denies Reports of Ex-Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik's Acquittal

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (712+ words) The Vatican on Wednesday denied reports that world-famous artist and former Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik has been acquitted of psychological, spiritual and sexual abuse of more than two dozen women. Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, called…...

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Cause for Canonization for Nobel Prize-Winning Scandinavian Novelist Sigrid Undset to Open This Fall

2+ mon, 6+ hour ago   (812+ words) The path to possible sainthood for Nobel Prize-winning Scandinavian novelist and Catholic convert Sigrid Undset will officially begin this fall when Oslo, Norway, Bishop Fredrik Hansen opens the cause for her canonization. Bishop Hansen’s announcement came in a homily last…...

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Pope Leo's Message to America On the Nation's 250th Birthday

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (721+ words) The Catholic Observer Pope Leo's Message to America On the Nation's 250th Birthday "Defending human life also includes welcoming, protecting and assisting immigrants, whose hopes, sacrifices and contribution have formed part of the history of this country from its very beginning....

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Pope Leo Delivers Last-Ditch Plea to Traditionalist Group to Back Off On "Schismatic" Ordination of Bishops

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (506+ words) Pope Leo XIV delivered an impassioned, last-ditch plea Tuesday to a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group to abandon its plan to appoint new bishops without papal authorization, warning that would be a “schismatic act” and a “sin of extreme gravity.” “I…...

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A Look Back At Pope Leo's Epic Journey to Spain

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (586+ words) During his weeklong trip to Spain, Pope Leo XIV delivered among his most forceful appeals yet for peace and protecting the human dignity of the unborn, the migrants and the marginalized, the mentally ill, the elderly, the impoverished, the imprisoned....

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Faith Leaders Win Access to Minister to Immigrant Detainees After Months-Long Legal Fight

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (720+ words) Catholic and other faith leaders can now minister daily to detainees at a Chicago-area immigrant-processing center — six months after filing a lawsuit arguing that the Trump administration had unlawfully denied them access. The nonprofit Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership…...