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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…...

The Catholic Observer
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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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Viewpoints: Sainting Charlie Kirk serves the MAGA movement, not the girls who believe in it.

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (485+ words) By Tia Levings/Religion News Service, September 2, 2026 A year after Kirk’s death, President Donald Trump has lost approval ratings and some of his shine. A few miles later, I passed a giant red sign announcing that the Trump Superstore is…...

The Catholic Observer
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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…...

The Catholic Observer
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Viewpoints: Sainting Charlie Kirk serves the MAGA movement. It doesn't serve the girls who believe it.

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (488+ words) By Tia Levings/Religion News Service, September 2, 2026 A year after Kirk’s death, President Donald Trump has lost approval ratings and some of his shine, and a few miles later I passed a giant red sign announcing the Trump Superstore is…...

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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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Catholic Voices: Igniting Hope In the Hills - The Jesuit mission among the Paharia Tribe in the Indian state of Jharkhand

2+ week, 3+ 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, 4+ 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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A Day In the Life of Pope Leo XIV

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (122+ words) By Anna Kurian, Aleteia Beginning the day with Mass A perennial ritual of Wednesdays and Sundays At the pope’s table A quieter (but still busy) afternoon The pope shares his dinner with his Peruvian secretary, Fr. Edgard Rimaycuna. No cook…...

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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, 5+ 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…...