Pope Leo XIV Calls Death Penalty Inadmissible Amid Hasan Execution
Pope Leo XIV reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s absolute opposition to capital punishment on Saturday, October 10, marking the World Day Against the Death Penalty. The pontiff…
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Pope Leo XIV Undergoes Lung Surgery for Adenocarcinoma
The Holy See Press Office confirmed Tuesday evening that Pope Leo XIV has been diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma following surgical removal of a nodule from his…
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Bishops
Bishops Worldwide Pray for Pope Leo XIV’s Lung Surgery
Pope Leo XIV announced on Sunday, October 11, that he will undergo surgery to remove a lung nodule. The procedure is scheduled for the week following…
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Pope Leo XIV Opens Vatican Summit on Family Life
Pope Leo XIV convened a weeklong assembly of bishops at the Vatican on October 7, marking a decade…
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Cardinal Stritch High School Closes December 2026
Cardinal Stritch Catholic High School in Ohio will cease operations at the end of December 2026, school officials…
Church
Pope Leo XIV Writes Foreword for Revised Marriage Catechism
Pope Leo XIV has authored the foreword for a new edition of YouCat: Love Forever, a catechetical text…
America
Faith and the shape of our common life.
Family · Essay
The Quiet Return of the Family Dinner, and Why It Matters
Sociologists find what the catechism long assumed about the table.
Culture · Review
A Catholic Literary Revival, Twenty Years in the Making
A generation of novelists takes the faith seriously again.
Stewardship
Land, energy, and the care of what we are given.
Stewardship
Catholics in Fundraising Launches Free Stewardship Seminar Series
Catholics in Fundraising CIO announced a new series of free online seminars designed to help Catholics align their…
Stewardship
Wester Urges Water Conservation and Pollution Accountability in New Mexico
Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe urged Catholics to conserve and protect water in a pastoral letter titled…
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- Rerum NovarumOn Capital and Labor — Pope Leo XIII1891
- Quadragesimo AnnoOn the Reconstruction of the Social Order — Pope Pius XI1931
- Mater et MagistraChristianity and Social Progress — Pope John XXIII1961
- Laborem ExercensOn Human Work — Pope John Paul II1981
- Centesimus AnnusOn the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum — Pope John Paul II1991
- Caritas in VeritateOn Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth — Pope Benedict XVI2009
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