As prior of the Augustinians (below, in a white shirt), in 2003 Leo XIV visited the Valley of the Fallen with a group of young people. / Credit: Courtesy of Israel @profedeprimari on X Madrid, Spain, May 20, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic…
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Above: modern Nicaea. Today marks the 1700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council—the Council of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey), convened in 325. This historic gathering took place just a few years after Constantine’s Edict of Milan in 313, which granted the Church freedom of worship. Summoned by Emperor Constantine on May 20 of that year,…
Perchance, you haven’t noticed. But for the past sixty years or so a pitched battle has been waged in the Church, something close to Jacobin revolution. Of course, its birth was simultaneous with a most prominent event. But even mentioning it would earn immediate censure, so, I will not. (So much for Synodal listening. I…
The speculations about what kind of pope Leo XIV will be range from outrageous scurrility to overenthusiastic embrace. I have read terrible things on the far end of the ultra “conservative” enclaves on the Internet and ridiculous things from the official liberal “Catholic” who seems to be whistling past the cemetery. Not only do some…
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Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois. / Credit: Diocese of Springfield in Illinois Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 19, 2025 / 17:57 pm (CNA). Bishop Thomas Paprocki, Bishop Kevin Rhoades, and Father Thomas Ferguson will join an advisory board for President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, according to a statement from the White House. The three…
