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The Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te limits its discussion of “migrants” to three paragraphs: 73–75. Paragraph 73 claims that “The experience of migration accompanies the history of the People of God,” citing Abraham, Moses, and the Flight into Egypt. Paragraph 74 focuses on two 19th-century Church figures involved in the care of migrants in the Americas:…
Just as a good diet nourishes the body, prayer also nurtures the soul. It is an essential dimension of life that is often missed by many, yet the heart of man, regardless of his faith, yearns knowingly and more often unknowingly for God. The simple reason for this is that God is love, and so…
As a current author of Catholic fiction, it may seem strange to title my article something so bleak and seemingly contradictory as the “Death of Catholic Fiction.” I’d like to clarify first what I mean by “death” in this case. We Catholics take for granted the collection of fiction we have accumulated from a handful…
Crisis editor Eric Sammons has made written and spoken pleas for laity calm in the aftermath of Pope Leo XIV’s odd ice-block blessing and refusal to condemn Cardinal Blase Cupich’s decision to award a pro-abortion politician with a lifetime achievement honor. Even on gasket-blowing days like yesterday, when the Chicago-native pontiff promoted his fellow Chicagoan…
Earlier this year, Pope Leo XIV announced that Cardinal St. John Henry Newman would become the 38th doctor of the Church. “I will confer the title of doctor of the Church on St. John Henry Newman, who gave a decisive contribution to the renewal of theology and to understanding Christian doctrine in its development,” the…
The pontificate of Leo XIV has just passed its first real milestone: its first media controversy. The recent friction over Pope Leo’s comments concerning the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago and his plans to award Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois an honor for his efforts on behalf of immigrants, despite supporting abortion throughout his career, probably…
Above: Shanghai, China. It appears that once again, Beijing has delivered another blow to the Holy See by consecrating a bishop to the pivotal Diocese of Shanghai after he was elected during the papal sede vacante. On October 15, Father Wu Jianlin will be consecrated as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Shanghai. News of…
The Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te, published by Pope Leo XIV on October 9, 2025, serves as the connecting link between the pontificates of Francis and Prevost. Topics echo those reiterated relentlessly over the past twelve years: poverty, a poor Church, the primacy of welfare, condemnation of economic inequality, social justice, theology of the people, the…
If you are a Catholic writer, reporter, columnist, or chat show host and you want to keep your followers happy, then you can talk about the merits or demerits of synodality. You can talk about private or public revelations. You can talk about the liturgy as the solution to all our problems, once we get…
Our diocese has asked the priests to promote a short survey about the laity to the faithful for a projected USCCB Pastoral Letter on the Laity. I wish that there would have been a survey about what kind of pastoral letters we need from the Bishops’ Conference, for I think the vocation crisis might be…
