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

4+ day, 17+ 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, 3+ 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

2+ week, 5+ hour 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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Catholic Voices: Igniting Hope In the Hills - The Jesuit mission among the Paharia Tribe in the Indian state of Jharkhand

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (159+ words) By Pradeep Alwyn Albuquerque, S.J. | The Jesuits/Dumka-Raiganj Province “Yet, the Jesuits stand as companions on this difficult journey, reminding them –— and the world — that they are not forgotten or invisible. This is the essence of Ignatian spirituality: finding God in…...

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Catholic Voices -- Stories from my mother: The rosary before television

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1163+ words) It was one of the stories from mom’s Catholic girlhood that she loved to tell and she told it often. The tale was about one of the great comforts of her life: not prayer or Mass, neither Holy Communion nor…...

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Catholic Voices: Learning from Ross Douthat, the longtime New York Times columnist who just left the paper to join “60 Minutes”

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (195+ words) By Massimo Faggioli, Commonweal Magazine The latter sentiment was expressed in an article by my friend Bill McCormick, SJ, in America, which praised Douthat for bringing back the voice of the lay Catholic intellectual in the public square. I think…...

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“Blue Lou” Marini In His Own Words: In a new Vatican Radio interview, he reflects on family, a life in music, the first American pontiff and the lasting legacy of “The Blues Brothers”

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (348+ words) Francesca Merlo (Vatican Radio): I’ll start us off. Obviously, the Blues Brothers is the clear starting point. How did that come about? How did you first meet John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd? How did you become a member of the…...

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In Northern Italy, Pope Leo Delivers a Forceful Appeal for Peace, While Decrying “the False Realism that Rearms Minds, Words and Nations”

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (894+ words) Pope Leo XIV delivered among his most forceful appeals for peace yet Saturday during his visit to the tiny, landlocked country of San Marino and in the nearby northern Italian city of Rimini, decrying division, the idolatry of profits over…...

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On the Internet But Not of It: An Ignatian Approach to AI (and Digital Life)

2+ mon, 20+ hour ago   (1022+ words) The Catholic Observer On the Internet But Not of It: An Ignatian Approach to AI (and Digital Life) A Jesuit Media Lab piece asks what it means to be faithful in the age of AI, reading Magnifica humanitas through the…...

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

2+ mon, 1+ day 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…...