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WebBiden, Mamdani, and Hochul Join Archbishop Hicks’s 9/11 Mass After Trump and Vance Decline
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (1215+ words) I was honored to be inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Thursday evening for the Memorial Mass marking twenty-five years since September 11, which Archbishop Ronald Hicks celebrated for the families of the dead, the uniformed services, and the civic leaders of…...
Father Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First Saint
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (1317+ words) Twenty-five years ago this morning, on September 10, 2001, Father Mychal Judge stood inside the quarters of Engine 73 and Ladder 42 in the Bronx and celebrated Mass for the rededication of the firehouse. In the homily, the FDNY chaplain told the men what…...
Invited by Pope Leo XIV’s New Archbishop, Mamdani Will Attend 9/11 Memorial Mass
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (1325+ words) According to three independent sources, Mayor Zohran Mamdani will attend the Archdiocese of New York’s 25th-anniversary Mass for the victims of September 11 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Thursday evening, along with the reception connected to it. Archbishop Ronald Hicks will…...
Lay Catholics Should Be Partisans. Bishops and Priests Should Not.
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (1382+ words) On Tuesday, I published an essay arguing that Bishop Robert Barron contradicted Pope Leo XIV on empathy in the service of a MAGA culture war. By Wednesday morning, two clerics I respect had answered me on X, and their answer…...
Welles Crowther, the Man in the Red Bandana, Showed the World What Christian Empathy Looks Like
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (1082+ words) Donald Trump presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the family of Welles Crowther on Tuesday, standing on the Ellipse beside a 21-foot steel beam pulled from the South Tower, with Welles’s mother, Alison, and his sister Paige accepting on…...
“Jesus Didn’t Say Have Empathy” — Bishop Barron Contradicts Pope Leo XIV in Latest MAGA Crusade
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (1230+ words) The pope clearly disagrees. Four months earlier, on May 11, he told a Vatican colloquium on compassion and empathy that the two “are not something additional or optional, but are a call from God to reflect his goodness in our daily…...
Pope Leo XIV’s Top US Cardinals Visit Silicon Valley and Warn Millions Will Lose Jobs
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (1045+ words) Cardinal Robert McElroy stood in the pulpit of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on Sunday, Sept. 6, and told a congregation of union members and parishioners that “no one intrinsically owns anything.” The Catholic Labor Network and the Archdiocese…...
Are We Seeking Converts or Punishing Heretics?
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (610+ words) The late Mark Shields once said that strong institutions seek converts and weak institutions punish heretics. Put another way, are we spending our time and energy making our communities bigger and more vibrant or smaller and more rigid? Pope Francis…...
Pope Leo’s Cardinal in Naples Writes Foreword to Book About Transgender Catholics
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (1409+ words) Cardinal Domenico Battaglia of Naples has written the preface to a new Italian book on transgender people, and Outreach, the LGBTQ Catholic ministry founded by Father James Martin, published the English translation on Thursday. The book, Persone transgender: Scienze, teologie,…...
MAGA Attacks Pope Leo XIV After He Prays For Clean Water
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1418+ words) Pope Leo XIV released his prayer intention for September on Tuesday, and it asks Catholics to pray for the care of water. The video runs under two minutes, and it landed the same day Leo opened the Season of Creation…...