Synodality requires engagement with LGBTQ Catholics — and not just the 'right' ones

"When people's lives expose the limits of our existing frameworks, the appropriate Christian response is not immediate dismissal but deeper discernment," Maxwell Kuzma writes.

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New Notre Dame report lists 12 key proposals to improve seminary formation

A new report by the University of Notre Dame offers 12 key recommendations to improve seminarian formation, focusing on the more effective use of psychological services, while better addressing "speci...

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Across Africa, Catholic nuns are building legal networks to protect vulnerable people

What began as a WhatsApp group has evolved into a movement connecting sisters trained in canon and civil law to support safeguarding, governance and accountability across Africa.

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ProPublica Hires Four Reporters to Expand Washington and National Security Coverage

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After SSPX schism, some Catholics urge greater access to the older Latin Mass

Allies of the older Latin Mass community had called for expanded access in the wake of the recent schism brought on by the ordination of four bishops without papal approval by the ultra-traditionalist...

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Court shields women religious from NY assisted suicide law

The groups sued the state July 17, arguing the law would require them to facilitate such deaths for their patients in violation of their faith.

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Catholic groups urge EPA to halt actions that devalue human life, God's creation

Catholics also delivered a letter with more than 2,440 signatures, including from one bishop and 506 women religious, outlining EPA actions they viewed as "deeply concerning" and urging the agency to ...

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A Portrait of MAGA Psychodrama

Or: On the political necessity of denouncing one’s friends.

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Pope Leo meets rock icon Patti Smith at the Vatican

Smith, 79, was in Rome to perform a show in the city's Circus Maximus on July 27. Although she does not consider herself Catholic, the rock legend wore a Franciscan Tau cross during her audience with ...

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Editorial: Calling war 'always evil,' the US church targets American militarism

With a U.S. cardinal declaring recently that "war is always evil," we are witnessing a pivotal moment in Catholic response to the activities of the most militant and powerful nation on earth.

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'A deal with the devil': Religion motivates data center opponents in Texas

Some see the facilities' construction as a sign of the apocalypse, while others see it as an opportunity to advocate for environmental stewardship.

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Vatican liturgy chief says Pope Leo will not overturn Latin Mass restrictions

"Pope Leo is not going to change Traditionis Custodes," said Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, in an interview with The Tablet pu...

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Pope Leo hints at US trip, reflects on migrant roots in rare interview

After July 29's "Concert for Peace," NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas asked the pontiff about the importance of being American. "I think of myself more as the pope who happens to be American," he re...

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Is there a Catholic form of populism?

"Populism usually has an angry edge to it, and Catholicism always favors a more irenic approach," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters.

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Illinois bishop bars family eulogies, same-day vigils under new funeral policies

Emphasizing stricter adherence to church norms, the change mirrors those several bishops in recent years have made to tighten diocesan policies pertaining to funerals and burials.

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Florida carries out double executions as Catholic bishops call to end death penalty

Before Florida executed two inmates in one day July 28, the Catholic bishops of that state issued a pastoral letter urging Catholics to reflect on the Church's moral opposition to the practice.

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Texas lawmaker introduces bill to protect Mount Cristo Rey from border wall construction

The Mount Cristo Rey Protection Act would prevent the federal government from constructing border security infrastructure around the prominent Catholic pilgrimage site overlooking the U.S.-Mexico bord...

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Inside the parish-led fight against a $123M ICE facility in Texas

The parishes that won Socorro, Texas, running water in the 1980s are now fighting ICE's plan to convert warehouses into a mega detention center. And the town's water system is at issue again.

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An AI data center is being built on my grandma's garden

When Liam Myers' grandma sold her house last year, she didn't know it was to an AI data center developer. Now, her grandson wrestles with the loss — and what it means to remember.

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Medjugorje shrine targeted in overnight vandalism, altar fire

Authorities are investigating a string of early-morning vandalism and arson attacks at Medjugorje, a major Catholic pilgrimage site in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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For Disability Pride Month, Catholics should revisit our anti-eugenics history

Emma Cieslik connects early Catholic opposition to eugenics with contemporary disability theology that reveals how disabled people are created in God's image, and calls us to fight for their rights.

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