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The Catholic Observer
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UDPATED: On Eve of America's 250th Birthday, Pope Leo Extols America's Heritage of Protecting God-Given Human Dignity, Welcoming Immigrants

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (956+ words) Pope Leo XIV called on America to live up to its founding ideals by protecting the dignity of human life from conception through natural death, welcoming immigrants, supporting religious freedom and fostering peace at home and abroad. The first U.S.-born…...

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Pope Leo Condemns Death Penalty As Trump Administration Approves Firing Squad Executions

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (787+ words) Hours after the Trump administration announced that it would reinstate the firing squad to execute federal death row prisoners, Pope Leo XIV reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s rejection of capital punishment as an “inadmissible” attack on human dignity. “The Catholic Church…...

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Quote of the Day: "President Trump, I’m afraid, has met his match in Pope Leo. Not by chance, the name Leo means 'lion,' and this lion is not going to back down.”

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (241+ words) JD Vance, the highest-ranking Catholic in the federal government, defended Trump’s posting of the image that appeared to depict him as Jesus. That drew rare criticism even from evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics, many of whom called the image blasphemous....

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Reports: Pentagon Delivered "Bitter Lecture" to Vatican Ambassador, Warning that the U.S. "Has the Military Power to do Whatever it Wants"

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (947+ words) The Defense Department summoned the Vatican’s ambassador to the U.S. to the Pentagon in January and subjected him to a “bitter lecture warning that the United States has the military power to do whatever it wants — and that the Church…...

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"As we look at the outbreak of wars in recent decades, one is left to wonder if Catholics are listening to the popes on a topic of the gravest urgency."

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (467+ words) By Edward J. Weisenburger/America: The Jesuit Review If we review the teachings and comments on war from the popes of the last century, most especially from the end of World War II up to the present, we find a strong…...

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Bad for the Church, and the World: There’s danger in U.S. bishops’ reluctance to criticize Trumpism

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1600+ words) The Catholic Observer Bad for the Church, and the World: There’s danger in U.S. bishops’ reluctance to criticize Trumpism Catholic scholar, journalist and author Massimo Faggioli writes in Commonweal. Historians are wary of making comparisons between different eras and events,…...

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Pope Leo Condemns "Atrocious Violence" of War On Iran, Calling on Leaders Who Launched the War to Heed His Ceasefire Demand

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1266+ words) Pope Leo XIV on Sunday condemned the “atrocious violence” of the U.S.-Israeli-led war against Iran and, for the first time, called on leaders who launched the war to heed his ceasefire demand. Pope Leo’s comments came as the…...

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Pope Leo is Coming to America, Virtually, for the Nation's 250th Birthday

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (296+ words) Pope Leo XIV speaks via video in June to some 30,000 people at the home of his beloved Chicago White Sox. (Video: Vatican Media) The ceremony will abound with symbolism as the first U.S.-born pontiff is awarded the medal in front…...

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OPINION: Armageddon Wars and Oval Office Prayers: A Catholic Response

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (487+ words) By Father Enzo Del Brocco, CP Images of Christian leaders praying over the president in the Oval Office recently circulated widely online. For many believers, they raised an old question: What is the proper relationship between Christian faith and political…...

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UPDATED: El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz Decries Mass Deportation, Mass Detention Campaign: A "Grave Moral Evil," Which "Must Be Opposed"

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (998+ words) El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz on Sunday denounced the Trump administration’s campaign of mass detention and mass deportation of immigrants as “a grave moral evil, one which must be opposed, with prayer, peaceful action and acts of solidarity with those…...