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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>New Advent</title><description>These stories have been handpicked from blogs and news sites around the Web -- some Catholic, some not.</description><link>https://www.newadvent.org/news/feedburner.xml</link><atom:link href="https://www.newadvent.org/news/feedburner.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7704048414373523655</guid><category>Head</category><title>Pope Leo XIV: ‘My Priority Is the Gospel, Not Solving the World’s Problems’...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266639/pope-leo-xiv-my-priority-is-the-gospel-not-solving-the-world-s-problems</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV said his primary role as leader of the Church is confirming Catholics in their faith and sharing the Gospel with the world, not resolving global crises. Speaking to Crux senior correspondent Elise Ann Allen in the first sit-down interview of his pontificate, Leo also said he was “trying not to continue to polarize or promote polarization in the Church.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-636468908790158323</guid><category>Left</category><title>My Father Was Murdered Too. I Pray Charlie Kirk’s Family Finds the Grace I Found...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/archbishop-naumann-charlie-kirk</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Archbishop Joseph Naumann)</author><description>The shocking event of last week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk has left a country in shock and two young children without a father. I cannot imagine the pain of Charlie’s widow, Erika, but I feel a special closeness to her and her family. My father Fred was murdered before I was born. I never met him but I got to know him through my mother, through his friends, and, I believe, through his supernatural presence in my life. Charlie’s children are now, tragically, on a similar path.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8260022816073951354</guid><category>Center</category><title>LEO XIV INTERVIEW (1 OF 6): Ukraine, Synodality, Polarization, and the World Cup...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/in-interview-with-crux-correspondent-pope-talks-ukraine-synodality-polarization-world-cup</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>These are the first excerpts of a two-part interview between Pope Leo XIV and Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen contained in her new biography of the pontiff, León XIV: ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI, or “Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the XXI Century.” The book is published in Spanish by Penguin Peru and will be available for purchase in stores and online Sept. 18. English and Portuguese editions will be available in early 2026.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7258050466996939183</guid><category>Left</category><title>This Is the One Craft That Really Matters...</title><link>https://life-craft.org/the-one-craft-that-really-matters/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (John Cuddeback)</author><description>People bemoan the loss of craftsmanship, and rightly so. We wonder what has happened to pride and care about every little detail, just because. Indeed, too many have only read about such craftsmen. But there is something much deeper going on that often escapes our notice. There is a greater craft—and it is truly a craft—that underlies and gives meaning to all other crafts. Every human person is called to develop this craft as we mature. Indeed, forming the young in this craft should be the real focus of ‘raising’ or ‘educating’ our young. But of this craft, and how to cultivate it, and how it has been set aside, we hear precious little.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3696656678903334946</guid><category>Center</category><title>LEO XIV INTERVIEW (2 OF 6): Relations With Other Churches...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/vatican-at-the-met/2025/09/pope-leo-xvi-speaks-to-cruxs-elise-ann-allen-on-relations-with-other-churches</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>These are the second excerpts of a two-part interview between Pope Leo XIV and Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen contained in her new biography of the pontiff, León XIV: ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI, or “Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the XXI Century.” The book is published in Spanish by Penguin Peru and will be available for purchase in stores and online Sept. 18. English and Portuguese editions will be available in early 2026.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7456870901020425090</guid><category>Left</category><title>What Is the Best Way to Distribute Holy Communion?</title><link>https://theologyofhome.substack.com/p/what-is-the-best-way-to-distribute</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Carrie Gress)</author><description>Over two decades ago, after being a daily communicant for years, I suggested to an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion what I thought was the best way to distribute Communion into the mouth. I somehow hit a nerve in this individual and it didn’t go well. I decided then to keep quiet ... until now. There are three main things that everyone hopes happens at the distribution of Communion. First, to reverently give the Body of Christ to communicants in a state of grace...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7285319312976018214</guid><category>Center</category><title>LEO XIV INTERVIEW (3 OF 6): The Curia and Vatican Finances...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/pope-leo-tells-cruxs-elise-ann-allen-about-the-curia-and-vatican-finances</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>These are the third excerpts of a two-part interview between Pope Leo XIV and Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen contained in her new biography of the pontiff, León XIV: ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI, or “Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the XXI Century.” The book is published in Spanish by Penguin Peru and will be available for purchase in stores and online Sept. 18. English and Portuguese editions will be available in early 2026.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8942276812674667409</guid><category>Left</category><title>Is Mary the Woman in Revelation 12?</title><link>https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/is-mary-the-woman-in-revelation-12</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Trent Horn)</author><description>When Protestants say, “Catholics believe in doctrines that aren’t found in the Bible,” they often appeal to the dogma of Mary’s assumption in order to justify the claim. In response, some Catholics say the Assumption is in the Bible because Mary is the woman John sees in heaven that is described in Revelation 12. Protestants often counter this claim by accusing Catholics of shoehorning Mary into a text that is actually talking about the Church or the people of Israel.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4788729831434686280</guid><category>Center</category><title>LEO XIV INTERVIEW (4 OF 6): Gaza, China, and the US...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/pope-leo-speaks-to-cruxs-elise-ann-allen-about-gaza-china-and-the-u-s</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>These are the fourth excerpts of a two-part interview between Pope Leo XIV and Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen contained in her new biography of the pontiff, León XIV: ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI, or “Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the XXI Century.” The book is published in Spanish by Penguin Peru and will be available for purchase in stores and online Sept. 18. English and Portuguese editions will be available in early 2026.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2789697441883603097</guid><category>Left</category><title>A Catholic Response to the Assassination of Charlie Kirk...</title><link>https://reallifecatholic.com/charlie-kirk-assassination-response/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Chris Stefanick)</author><description>Where do we go from here? In dark times like this, we must remember that Christ is our hope, and there is a path forward. Here are Chris Stefanick’s reflections on a Christian response to the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk. In this video, he offers three suggestions for moving forward in an era of political violence when freedom of speech hangs in the balance and some Christians feel targeted for their beliefs. We must look to Jesus by loving our enemies, not fearing death, and pushing back against the label that Christian beliefs are hateful or harmful.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-692010324833972760</guid><category>Center</category><title>LEO XIV INTERVIEW (5 OF 6): Polarization in the World...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/pope-leo-speaks-to-cruxs-elise-ann-allen-about-polarization-in-the-world</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>These are the fifth excerpts of a two-part interview between Pope Leo XIV and Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen contained in her new biography of the pontiff, León XIV: ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI, or “Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the XXI Century.” The book is published in Spanish by Penguin Peru and will be available for purchase in stores and online Sept. 18. English and Portuguese editions will be available in early 2026.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3021740354917063691</guid><category>Left</category><title>What Does Jubilee Mean in the Bible?</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/what-does-jubilee-mean-in-the-bible?mc_cid=97a67b1f87&amp;mc_eid=76031b1787</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Clement Harrold)</author><description>With his papal bull Spes Non Confundit (“Hope does not disappoint”), Pope Francis confirmed that 2025 would be an Ordinary Jubilee Year. While the Church occasionally celebrates additional jubilees, the ordinary celebration takes place every 25 years. This year’s jubilee officially began on Christmas Eve (December 24), 2024, and it will end on the Epiphany of the Lord (January 6), 2026. The theme for the year, chosen by Pope France, is “pilgrims of hope.” But where does the idea of jubilee come from exactly? And what does it mean in its original biblical context?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1391609777402585161</guid><category>Center</category><title>LEO XIV INTERVIEW (6 of 6): LGBTQ+ Issues and the Liturgy...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/pope-leo-speaks-to-cruxs-elise-ann-allen-about-lgbtq-issues-and-the-liturgy</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>These are the sixth excerpts of a two-part interview between Pope Leo XIV and Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen contained in her new biography of the pontiff, León XIV: ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI, or “Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the XXI Century.” The book is published in Spanish by Penguin Peru and will be available for purchase in stores and online Sept. 18. English and Portuguese editions will be available in early 2026.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7445686334016053645</guid><category>Left</category><title>‘Why Are Catholics So Happy?’ Harvard’s Arthur Brooks Has an Answer That Could Change Your Life...</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/09/must-watch-talk-from-arthur-brooks-why.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Author and Harvard professor, Arthur C. Brooks delivered this keynote address for the Convocation at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4802630947085693576</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Apocalypse of God’s Temple and the Tree of Life...</title><link>https://catholic460.substack.com/p/the-apocalypse-of-gods-temple-and</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Matthew Tsakanikas)</author><description>Observe the progressive movements towards the Incarnation. The Eternal Spirit, the Most Holy Trinity, God was always showing his desire to tabernacle amongst us and develop a union between heaven and earth. At Mount Sinai, God came veiled in a “thick cloud.” Next, with the tent of meeting, he tabernacled, veiled in garments of skins and curtains embroidered with cherubim. Filling the tent of meeting with His glory was like taking on the sinful flesh of man...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8633556547600907058</guid><category>Left</category><title>12 of the Best Fall Foliage Hikes in the US — From Alaska to Tennessee...</title><link>https://www.mentalfloss.com/geography/wanderlust/best-fall-foliage-hikes</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Fall is when nature puts on her best show, and these trails are your front row seat to it. The ultimate goal of leaf-peeping season is fairly simple: walk somewhere beautiful and stare at trees until your eyes water and your feet start to go numb. But the opportunities are endless. You’ll find jaw-dropping fall colors in places you’d never expect (yes, even the South), and those crowds that clogged up summer routes will have largely retreated to pumpkin patches and football games.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3609332923745473548</guid><category>Center</category><title>America badly needs men and women of character today. Thank you, Cal Ripken.....</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/cal-ripken-jr-a-heroic-example</link><author>null@newadvent.org (George Weigel)</author><description>America needs the example of a real hero: a dedicated hero who enhances natural talents by hard work and takes pride in a craft; an unselfish hero who places team above self; a modest hero who shares the credit for wins and accepts the blame, sometimes unnecessarily, for losses; a sportsmanlike hero who wants his opponents to be at their best so that victory means something; a stoic hero who overcomes pain and frustration because...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-64415440082067082</guid><category>Left</category><title>Roadmaps of Redemption and Salvation...</title><link>https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/roadmaps-redemption-and-salvation/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Jerry Pokorsky)</author><description>The crucifix affixed above the altar signifies that the Sacrifice of the Mass participates in the one Sacrifice of Jesus for our redemption. The Cross defines our worship and provides the path to salvation. But the roadmaps of redemption and salvation vary in the post-Reformation era of fragmented Christianity. Catholic teaching holds that Original Sin wounded but did not destroy human nature...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1680931114983457424</guid><category>Center</category><title>Untimely Meditations in Utah...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/09/17/untimely-meditations-in-utah/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Robert Royal)</author><description>In 1776, the year that America became independent (and San Francisco was founded), two Franciscan priests, Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, traveled from what would become Santa Fe, New Mexico, through Arizona, Colorado, and Utah, aided at several points by native guides, until circumstances forced them to turn back in Orem, Utah, the very place where, last week, Charlie Kirk was murdered...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-253903174814363697</guid><category>Left</category><title>Two Classics: ‘Crime and Punishment’ and ‘Columbo’...</title><link>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/09/two-classics-crime-punishment-columbo-dwight-longenecker.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Dwight Longenecker)</author><description>The classic television show “Columbo,” like the great novel “Crime and Punishment,” is a classic, and rightfully so, because it too penetrates to the heart of a modern heresy and exposes it for the lie that it is. This is the Nietzschean idea of the “ubermensch”: the superman who can transcend ordinary law.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4026153101091093847</guid><category>Center</category><title>Thinking About Why Charlie Kirk Died...</title><link>https://tmattingly.substack.com/p/thinking-about-why-charlie-kirk-died</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Terry Mattingly)</author><description>What do Joe Rogan, Charlie Sheen and Charlie Kirk have in common? On many levels, the correct answer is, “Not much.” And I never thought that I would be discussing Sheen in the context of someone like Kirk who, whatever you thought of his MAGA messages, was maturing into an increasingly effective public apologist on topics of faith, family and public life.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8244929660759887337</guid><category>Left</category><title>The Dark Night of the Soul Is Not What You Think...</title><link>https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/dark-night-of-the-soul-not-what-you-think</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>St. Teresa of Calcutta is often described as having lived for decades in a “dark night of the soul.” The phrase has become so common that people apply it broadly to mean any prolonged period of aridity, or dryness, in prayer, or any season of difficulty in the spiritual life. How many times have you heard someone say, “I’m going through a dark night of the soul” when what he really means is that he feels distant from God, or is merely not feeling spiritual consolations?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8629038503444351352</guid><category>Center</category><title>King Charles III Attends First UK Catholic Royal Funeral in Centuries for Duchess of Kent...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266597/british-royal-family-holds-first-catholic-funeral-in-centuries-for-duchess-of-kent</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The British Royal family held its first Catholic funeral in modern history on Tuesday for the duchess of Kent, the first senior British royal to be received into the Church since the 17th century. The duchess died on Sept. 4 at the age of 92 and asked that her funeral be held at Westminster Cathedral in London. She was raised Anglican but joined the Catholic Church in 1994. She described her conversion as a “long-pondered personal decision” but said she was attracted to the solace and clarity of the faith. </description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4008436595318822300</guid><category>Left</category><title>Anger, Death, and the Inevitable Disregard for the Golden Rule...</title><link>https://knowingisdoing.org/blog/anger-death-and-inevitable-disregard-golden-rule</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Marlon De La Torre)</author><description>One of the most important tenets that Jesus immediately proposed and explained to those present around him was the importance of living a life of beatitude. He presses an important point of loving your brother by shunning one’s anger. Even more, he reminds those around him that whoever kills is bound to judgment, as the one who holds anger toward his brother is also liable to judgment. The correlation between killing someone and the anger someone holds against someone or something...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8984597362741615464</guid><category>Center</category><title>Mine on the Moon...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/mine-on-the-moon</link><author>null@newadvent.org (J.D. Flynn)</author><description>You’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post, and today’s the feast of St. Cyprian and Pope St. Cornelius, martyrs both, and saints of mercy. It was the third century. In the eyes of the emperor, Decius, Rome was floundering, the empire’s best days were behind it. Decius believed the empire was fracturing, that respect for Rome’s culture, her glory, and her emperor were fading. He aimed to restore Rome to its former greatness, and cement himself as the leader of a new golden age.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5752558753708260281</guid><category>Left</category><title>The Duchess of Kent attended my ordination at Westminster Cathedral. Today, on the day of her funeral, I pray for the repose of her soul...</title><link>https://rcdow.org.uk/news/a-funeral-and-some-fulfilment/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Hugh MacKenzie)</author><description>On Tuesday the funeral of Her Royal Highness Katharine Duchess of Kent will take place in the Cathedral. This will be the first Catholic royal funeral in modern history, made all the more historic by the presence of their Majesties King Charles and Queen Camilla. While the funeral ceremonies are a private, family affair, we chaplains here have the great privilege of concelebrating at the Requiem Mass. This has a particular significance for me because, by a strange providence, Her Royal Highness also attended my own ordination here in the Cathedral.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4417559971683486916</guid><category>Center</category><title>Prudent Stewards: A Reflection on the Upcoming 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time...</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/prudent-stewards-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-twenty-fifth-sunday-in-ordinary-time</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Scott Hahn)</author><description>The steward in today’s Gospel confronts the reality that he can’t go on living the way he has been. He is under judgment. He must give account for what he has done. The exploiters of the poor in today’s First Reading are also about to be pulled down, to be thrust from their stations (see Isaiah 22:19). Servants of mammon, or money, they’re so in love with wealth that they reduce the poor to objects; they despise the new moons and sabbaths—the observances and holy days of God (see Leviticus 23:24; Exodus 20:8).</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6958085137431426622</guid><category>Left</category><title>People Are Knocking. Here’s How Parishes Can Respond.....</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/people-are-knocking-heres-how-parishes</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Timothy Glemkowski)</author><description>Early reports from across the country suggest that Catholic churches across the country were uniquely full this past Sunday. Social media and on-the-ground reporting indicates that the upswing was attributed to the impact of violence in our country in recent weeks, particularly the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In his recent address to the recently appointed bishops gathered in Rome, casually referred to as “Baby Bishop School,” Pope Leo XIV issued a challenging word</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-122628482853603592</guid><category>Center</category><title>Activist Priest Resigns Over New Syro-Malabar Liturgy...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/activist-priest-resigns-over-new</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Luke Coppen)</author><description>A priest known for his social activism resigned as the vicar of a parish in India’s Ernakulam-Angamaly archeparchy Sunday after he was asked to celebrate the Syro-Malabar Church’s new uniform Eucharistic liturgy. Fr. Augustine Vattoly, the parish vicar of St. Augustine Church, Kadamakkudy, in Kerala state, announced his resignation Sept. 14 in an open letter to Archbishop Joseph Pamplany, the archiepiscopal vicar of Ernakulam-Angamaly.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1513631456351215139</guid><category>Left</category><title>Catholic Campus Ministries Nationwide Report ‘Charlie Kirk Effect’ on Mass Attendance, New Inquirers...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266579/mass-attendance-up-at-various-colleges-in-wake-of-charlie-kirk-assassination</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In what some are calling “the Charlie Kirk effect,” people across the nation, including many college students who are not ordinarily churchgoers, have decided to go to church since the assassination last week of the conservative Christian political activist Charlie Kirk.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4520920218889697638</guid><category>Center</category><title>How This Catholic School Event 67 Years Ago Changed Every School in America...</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/09/how-this-catholic-school-event-67-years.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In December 1958, a fire broke out at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago. Within minutes, the building was consumed, and 92 children along with three nuns tragically lost their lives. It remains one of the deadliest school fires in U.S. history. Yet, out of this disaster, came some of the most sweeping changes to building codes, fire safety standards, and school practices ever enacted...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5820414144985823704</guid><category>Left</category><title>‘Hey Culligan Man!’: How My Parents’ ‘Yes’ to Life Changed the World...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/hey-culligan-man</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>This year, I turn 90. This, of course, is no big deal, except that my age gives me an excellent vantage point from which to tell a true pro-life story. My father was Emmett J. Culligan, the renowned “Culligan Man” who founded the worldwide water-conditioning industry. He and my mother, Anna Bridget Harrington, both of strong midwestern Irish-Catholic stock, together raised seven children. I am the youngest and now the only one remaining. My father’s business success provided us with a home life that, while not extravagant, was very comfortable and incredibly enriching. But it was not always so.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7220893219550604701</guid><category>Center</category><title>‘No One Can Silence Their Voice’: Pope Leo XIV Honors Modern Martyrs at Ecumenical Service...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266569/no-one-can-silence-their-voice-pope-leo-xiv-honors-modern-martyrs-at-ecumenical-service</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV led an ecumenical commemoration of the martyrs and witnesses of faith of the 21st century at Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, stressing that “even though they have been killed in body, no one can silence their voice or erase the love they have shown.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4293967875148937491</guid><category>Left</category><title>In interview with Crux correspondent, Pope talks Ukraine, synodality, polarization, World Cup...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/in-interview-with-crux-correspondent-pope-talks-ukraine-synodality-polarization-world-cup</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In a lengthy and wide-ranging interview for a new biography of his life, Pope Leo XIV opens up his own background as history’s first U.S.-born pope and the first pope to hold Peruvian citizenship, jesting about who he would cheer for in a hypothetical World Cup, as well as his understanding of the papacy and current topics such as peace in Ukraine, his vision for synodality, and the polarization dividing so much of the world.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1577576289253148613</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Leo XIV Marks 70th Birthday at Sunday Angelus: ‘I Give Thanks to the Lord and to My Parents’...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266565/pope-leo-xiv-marks-70th-birthday-at-sunday-angelus-i-give-thanks-to-the-lord-and-to-my-parents</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>On Sunday, his 70th birthday, Pope Leo XIV presided at the recitation of the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square. From the early morning hours, the square had filled up with the faithful carrying banners, flags, and congratulatory signs to celebrate the pope’s milestone.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6667726986092073805</guid><category>Left</category><title> Brian Burch, New US Ambassador to the Holy See, Formally Presents Credentials to Pope Leo XIV...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266553/new-us-ambassador-to-the-vatican-presents-credentials-to-pope-leo-xiv</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV on Saturday morning received Brian Burch, the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace for the formal presentation of his letters of credence. According to a U.S. embassy statement, the two men discussed the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, as well as "protecting religious freedom, the Vatican’s relationship with China, and the AI revolution."</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7761601049704877962</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Leo hints at Lampedusa visit in strong echo of Francis on migrants and refugees...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/pope-hints-at-lampedusa-visit-in-strong-echo-of-francis-on-migrants-and-refugees</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In another firm echo of the legacy of his predecessor, Pope Leo XIV released a nine-minute video message to the island community of Lampedusa on Friday, praising its efforts to welcome migrants and refugees and appearing to offer the prospect of an imminent papal visit.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1221903465697547180</guid><category>Left</category><title>The Brief, Servant's Life of Newly Canonized Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati...</title><link>https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/09/brief-servants-life-newly-sainted-pier-giorgio-frassati/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>On Sept. 7, 80,000 worshippers gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for Pope Leo XIV’s first two canonizations: Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati. During his homily, the pope addressed especially the young people, presenting the lives of these new saints—however brief—as guides for holiness. Pier Giorgio Frassati was born April 6, 1901, in Turin to a rich bourgeois family. His father, Alfredo, was a lawyer and ambassador, as well as founder and director of the newspaper...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3928039919965152124</guid><category>Center</category><title>A Note on Noticing the Glory...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/09/10/a-note-on-noticing-the-glory/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Francis X. Maier)</author><description>Colorado has dozens of ski resorts. The official count is 41. Vail and Aspen, Telluride, and Steamboat Springs get the lion’s share of attention. But little ski gems like Wolf Creek and Crested Butte abound. Our family favorite, in the 18 years we lived in Denver, was Arapahoe Basin. Tucked into the Continental Divide just 65 miles from our home, “A-Basin” was an easy drive and a laid-back local magnet. It offered a few beginner runs, but the resort was, and is, short on frills and has little patience with posers.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7004828428102588590</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo XIV to New Bishops: ‘Be Builders of Bridges’...</title><link>https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-09/pope-leo-calls-on-new-bishops-to-be-builders-of-bridges.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo tackled numerous themes on Thursday, 11 September, during a question-and-answer session at the conclusion of his audience with newly appointed bishops in the Synod Hall at the Vatican. According to a statement from the Holy See Press Office, Pope Leo continued his reflection on “the challenges and issues” new bishops “face at the beginning of a new ministry, such as fears, feelings of unworthiness, and the different expectations each had for their lives before their calling.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6967388183313792364</guid><category>Center</category><title>Leadership in the Wake of Tragedy: Reflection on the Assassination of Charlie Kirk...</title><link>https://epiphanycommunications.com/leadership-in-the-wake-of-tragedy-reflection-on-the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The assassination of Charlie Kirk is a sobering moment for anyone who believes in the power of dialogue, public engagement, and leadership—regardless of political affiliation. As a leadership coach, I view this not through the lens of ideology, but through the lens of human dignity, civic responsibility, and the culture we shape through our words and actions.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4092314171873797513</guid><category>Left</category><title>Charlie Kirk: A Joyful Warrior for Life...</title><link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/charlie-kirk-was-a-joyful-warrior-for-life/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Kathryn Jean Lopez)</author><description>“Why should I not be able to eliminate my ten-month-old baby?” Charlie Kirk invited an obnoxious, narcissistic young college student to give her best effort at making her “pro-choice” arguments. He was respectful. She was not. He was convicted about protecting the weak, unborn child, and tried to draw out of the girl why he didn’t have the right to kill a born child if she could kill her unborn child. She ignored him and said she had another question to ask instead of responding to his respectful response to her.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6734120672227487748</guid><category>Center</category><title>Charlie Kirk Is Dead. Just Stop Everything and Pray.....</title><link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/charlie-kirk-is-dead-just-stop-everything-and-pray/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Charlie Kirk is dead. I know you know that. But stop scrolling and clicking and arguing for a few minutes and think about it. If you pray, pray. Really, truly pray. If you are Catholic, get yourself in front of the Blessed Sacrament. (If you are not Catholic, feel free to, too.) There is no more powerful Presence on this earth. Acknowledge that. Acknowledge Him. If you don’t pray, just think about the fact Charlie Kirk died because he was speaking.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-938857565933339113</guid><category>Left</category><title>Charlie Kirk, Iryna Zarutska and the conversations we need to have...</title><link>https://www.osvnews.com/charlie-kirk-iryna-zarutska-and-the-conversations-we-need-to-have/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Elizabeth Scalia)</author><description>On Sept. 10, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, 31, was shot and killed during a speaking event in Utah. He leaves behind a wife and two very young children. Assassination is a tragedy for our country and for humanity. In this case it raises the flame beneath a pot that had already been simmering and is now dangerously close to boiling over. We must pray for peace, and for a reckoning that rids us of senseless violence once and for all.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5836587465875124482</guid><category>Center</category><title>How the legendary Motown was inspired by a Ford assembly line and magnified by the Beatles...</title><link>https://www.wgbh.org/music/2018-11-16/motown-the-history-of-a-hits-factory</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In 1965, the folks at one federal agency had an ambitious goal. They wanted to create something that was well ahead of its time: a music video. The agency was the Office of Economic Opportunity, part of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. The OEO helped co-produce a 90-minute TV special with CBS, urging American teenagers to find summer jobs and stay educated. But the video also showcased some of the era’s biggest stars, including Ray Charles, Tom Jones and the Supremes.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5003377107154695474</guid><category>Left</category><title>How Soft Religious Relativism Is Hardening Into Open Persecution...</title><link>https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/09/10/on-the-urgent-need-to-recognize-and-reject-religious-relativism/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Larry Chapp)</author><description>Way back in olden times, when I was still a professor of theology, one of the most ubiquitous attitudes amongst the students was that it does not matter which religion one practiced since “all religions are really saying the same thing in their essence”.Indeed, in this view, it does not even matter if one practices a religion at all since it is possible to be a “good person” and to be “spiritual” without any religious affiliation. Furthermore, such views are expressed with extreme confidence, as if there is no need to offer arguments for them since their reasonableness is beyond dispute.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7638974697663206087</guid><category>Center</category><title>In the Midst of Political Violence, Lift High the Cross...</title><link>https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-in-the-midst-of-political-violence-lift-high-the-cross</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Tom Hoopes)</author><description>After sobering news about political violence in America, this Sunday, Sept. 14, is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. Just as it did after Sept. 11, 2001, the Church offers the hard hope of the cross after tragedy. It is crucial in times like this to understand the glory of the cross — a glory which never takes away sadness, but answers pain with love. Here are five takeaways drawn from Sunday Readings columns at this site and the Extraordinary Story podcast.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8218059186690194342</guid><category>Left</category><title>I Knew Charlie Kirk. He Was a Man of Intelligence, Charm and Goodness of Heart.....</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/09/i-knew-charlie-kirk-he-was-man-of.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Bishop Robert Barron)</author><description>I first met Charlie Kirk about four years ago when I was in Phoenix for a speaking engagement. He reached out and invited me to breakfast. I was deeply impressed by him that day. He was a man of great intelligence, considerable charm, and real goodness of heart. I reconnected with him just last year, after I saw him debate twenty-five young people who were, to put it mildly, hostile to his views...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7923694301075851573</guid><category>Center</category><title>Ammunition in Charlie Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender and Antifascist Ideology, Sources Tell WSJ ...</title><link>https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charlie-kirk-shot</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Conservative political activist and author Charlie Kirk has died after being shot on stage during an event at Utah Valley University. He was going back and forth with a student about mass shootings involving transgender people when he was shot, according to videos of the attack.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1287778480190476055</guid><category>Left</category><title>Seven Catholic Bishops Join Record-Breaking UK March for Life in London...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/march-for-life-uk-2025</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Edward Pentin)</author><description>This year’s March for Life UK saw its largest ever number of participants on Saturday, drawing together families and individuals from a diverse mix of backgrounds and nationalities as well as Catholic priests, religious, seven Catholic bishops and, for the first time, a message from the Holy Father. Held in a festive atmosphere and under warm, sunny September skies, organizers estimated 10,000 participants took part...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4294622682409112859</guid><category>Center</category><title>A Nightly Ritual for Married and Unmarried...</title><link>https://life-craft.org/a-nightly-ritual-for-married-and-unmarried/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>What Aquinas writes about dreams is something we have all observed, and it calls for closer consideration: “those things which have occupied a man’s thoughts and affections while awake recur to his imagination while asleep.” This implies that our nighttime dreams are not wholly beyond our sway. Indeed, it grounds a very practical approach to improving our dreams. The point here is not to attempt what is impossible...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4757321101757956675</guid><category>Left</category><title>The Lost Art of Catholic Cinema...</title><link>https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/the-lost-art-of-catholic-cinema/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Daniel McInerny)</author><description>When so many Catholic and other Christian filmmakers are working so admirably and achieving so much popular and evangelical success—success, one hastens to add, in an industry whose power players are inimical to everything these filmmakers stand for—it might well seem churlish to point out any limitation in their work. But when their work contributes, however unwittingly, to the diminution, if not outright abolition, of an entire tradition of filmmaking, then something needs to be said.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4381640124719678609</guid><category>Center</category><title>ESPN’s Favorite College Football Game-Day Traditions...</title><link>https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46015760/our-favorite-college-football-game-day-traditions</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>There's nothing quite like the energy, emotion, pageantry and good ol' fashioned fun that takes place every fall weekend at college football games. There are time-honored traditions that date back many decades. There are century-old marching bands and pulsating techno hits. There are rampaging animals, covered wagons, antique cars and even storied rocks. There are quaint customs and there are controversies -- it wouldn't be college football without controversy, right?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6930529345390030894</guid><category>Left</category><title>2025 Fall Foliage Forecast Map: ‘Autumn Is a Second Spring When Every Leaf Is a Flower’...</title><link>https://smokymountains.com/fall-foliage-map</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The 2025 Fall Foliage Map is the ultimate visual planning guide to the annual progressive changing of the leaves. While no tool can be 100% accurate, this tool is meant to help travelers better time their trips to have the best opportunity of catching peak color each year...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6336725726424358097</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Leo XIV at Wednesday General Audience: ‘Jesus Shows Us Crying Out Is Not Weakness But an Act of Hope’...</title><link>https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-09/pope-jesus-shows-us-crying-out-is-not-weakness-but-act-of-hope.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Looking at the culmination of Jesus’s earthly life, Pope Leo reflected on His death on a cross. Continuing his General Audience catechesis on the crucifixion and death of Jesus, the Pope stressed that Jesus did not die in silence. “He does not fade away gradually, like a light that burns out, but rather he leaves life with a cry.” That cry, Pope Leo explained, is more than the body surrendering, “but the final sign of a life being surrendered.” Before this, Jesus offers a question...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6036600712221976115</guid><category>Left</category><title>Why are we obsessing over Cracker Barrel logos? Let’s make America serious again.....</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/make-america-serious-again-cracker-barrell</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Having spent most of July and August off the grid while teaching in Poland and vacationing in Canada, I missed a lot of the Great Cracker Barrel Logo Fracas. But from what little I have observed of this absurd “debate” over whether removing a white man from the company logo constituted another corporate cave-in to wokery, which was followed by the equally inane “debate” over whether Cracker Barrel’s restoration of that figure to its logo was a further step toward the end of democracy...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4899455434171849572</guid><category>Center</category><title>Could Leo take a ‘Vatican II’ approach to Traditionis custodes?</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/could-leo-take-a-vatican-ii-approach</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Ed Condon)</author><description>Supporters of the extraordinary form of the liturgy have welcomed the announcement that the traditional Latin Mass will be celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica as part of an annual traditionalist pilgrimage to Rome in October. The Mass, expected to be celebrated according to the 1962 Missal, will be the first time that rubric is used in St. Peter’s and in connection with the annual event since 2021...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7870629561125152381</guid><category>Left</category><title>Vatican Announces New Feast Days for Sts. Carlo Acutis (Oct. 12) and Pier Giorgio Frassati (July 4)...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266441/vatican-establishes-feast-days-of-st-carlo-acutis-and-st-pier-giorgio-frassati</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The Catholic Church will commemorate the liturgical memorial of St. Carlo Acutis on Oct. 12 and of St. Pier Giorgio Frassati on July 4. The two young men were canonized Sept. 7 by Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. In the case of St. Carlo Acutis, the Italian teenager who died in 2006 and was beatified in Assisi in October 2020, his feast day was set for Oct. 12, coinciding with the anniversary of his death from fulminant leukemia at the age of 15.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1579444258122781886</guid><category>Center</category><title>Traditionalists Rejoice That Cardinal Burke Will Be Allowed to Celebrate TLM at St. Peter’s on Oct. 25...</title><link>https://apnews.com/article/old-latin-mass-traditionalists-pope-81721a76fbbd03cf020b2cfbb8041ae1</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Traditionalist Catholics celebrated news Monday that the Vatican under Pope Leo XIV had given them permission to celebrate the old Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica during their upcoming pilgrimage. U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke, a figurehead of the conservative and traditionalist wing of the church, will celebrate the Mass on Oct. 25, the pilgrimage organizers said...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1877222005569516681</guid><category>Left</category><title>Seeing What a Saint Is Like: Malcolm Muggeridge and Mother Teresa...</title><link>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/09/seeing-saint-malcolm-muggeridge-mother-teresa-david-deavel.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (David Deavel)</author><description>Even in their deaths, saints often manifest the humility of Christ. I remember vividly watching one of the major news networks on September 5, 1997, the day Mother Teresa died at the age of 87. Whichever one it was had invited on the enfant terrible of New Atheist punditry, Christopher Hitchens, to discuss her life. Hitch, who had penned an attack on the Albanian nun’s work, titled naughtily The Missionary Position, was given the green light to summarize his book...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7502534763322060194</guid><category>Center</category><title>Tim Kaine Comments on Rights and Religion: Senator Needs Remedial Civics...</title><link>https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/tim-kaine-is-unable-to-say-what-makes-america-beautiful/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>He’s the senator from Virginia whom the Democrats offered as their vice-presidential candidate not that long ago; he’s presumably one of the best they’ve got. In fact, he’s so good that he claims to have a better idea about the origin of our rights than does the Declaration of Independence. So I apologize for what Tim Kaine said at a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6108100517117191763</guid><category>Left</category><title>Mastering AI: Benedictine College Launches New Center as Carlo Acutis Is Canonized...</title><link>https://media.benedictine.edu/mastering-ai-benedictine-launches-new-center-as-carlo-acutis-is-canonized</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XVI asked for the Church to respond to the Artificial Intelligence revolution, so Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, has created the Center for Technology and Human Dignity, promoting Catholic digital and biomedical ethics. The director for the center is Mariele Courtois, a Benedictine College theologian, bioethicist, and a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education’s research group on artificial intelligence.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5158228741848376721</guid><category>Center</category><title>Unconditional Alliance: Do Not Be Too Proud to Call Upon Our Savior’s Constant Help...</title><link>https://parishableitems.com/2025/09/07/unconditional-alliance/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Victor Feltes)</author><description>At the Last Supper, when Jesus told his disciples “one of you will betray me,” all of them replied “Surely, it is not I, Lord,” except for Judas. Judas answered, “Surely it is not I, rabbi (or teacher).” Jesus Christ must be more than merely our teacher. He insists on being our supremely-loved Lord...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5382655320872991366</guid><category>Left</category><title>Diocese Investigates Sainthood Cause of Tom Vander Woude, Virginia Father Who Gave His Life to Save His Son...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266401/diocese-investigates-sainthood-cause-of-virginia-father-tom-vander-woude-who-saved-son</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Suffocation awaited a young man with Down syndrome when the eroded surface of a toxic sewage tank crumbled beneath his feet. Joseph Vander Woude would have died alone in the cramped tank surrounded by toxic fumes, but his father jumped in, pushing him toward the surface with his last breath. Even as his lungs filled with toxic gases, Tom called out to the farmhand who was trying to pull Joseph out. “You pull, I’ll push,” he said.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-778039675516142187</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Leo gives first exclusive interview to Crux correspondent for new bio...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/leo-gives-first-exclusive-interview-to-crux-correspondent-for-new-bio</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Penguin Random House announced Monday that notoriously media-shy Pope Leo XIV has given his first-ever papal interview to Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen as part of her new biography of the pontiff. Titled ‘Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the XXI Century,’ the book will be published by Penguin Peru in Spanish Sept. 18 and will be available in bookstores nationwide.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1411816197023214948</guid><category>Left</category><title>St. Maria Goretti, Mother Seton, and Other Jubilee Saints...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/09/07/jubilee-saints/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Raymond de Souza)</author><description>Popes give special attention to those they canonize in Jubilee years. The joint canonization of Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis today marks a highlight of Jubilee 2025, and perhaps a high point of Leo’s pontificate. For the Jubilee 1900, Pope Leo XIII canonized two saints, both with fairly wide popular devotion, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle and Rita of Cascia...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1290984484506265763</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Leo XIV proclaims Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati Saints...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266389/live-updates-canonization-of-carlo-acutis-and-pier-giorgio-frassati-the-first-saints-of-pope-leo-xiv</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV proclaimed the Italians Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis as saints of the Church on Sunday.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6277307330461745101</guid><category>Left</category><title>What Did the Pope Say to Father James Martin?</title><link>https://tmattingly.substack.com/p/crossroads-what-did-the-pope-say</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>People who watch Rome closely know that who a pope promotes and who he punishes is far more important than what he says in statements to the press or even, in some cases, what is released in public documents. Who gets a red hat in the College of Cardinals and who does not? Who is appointed to posts that shape and guide projects (the word synodality is relevant) that could, potentially, change church doctrine?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3984231105819364455</guid><category>Center</category><title>What Kind of God Demands Animal Sacrifices?</title><link>https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/what-kind-of-god-demands-animal-sacrifices</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Why in the world did God command the Jewish people to offer animal sacrifices? Not only do they appear inhumane and gross to us twenty-first-century Americans, but the Bible seems to be inconsistent. After all, Scripture pushes for the fair treatment of humans (“love your enemies”), yet not for animals. They get killed left and right.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6230993346860727812</guid><category>Left</category><title>Why is OCIA Growing in the United States?</title><link>https://catholicmissionarydisciples.com/news/why-is-ocia-is-growing-in-the-usa</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Marcel LeJeune)</author><description>Earlier this week I spoke to an OCIA (formerly RCIA) class of 170 or so college students at St. Mary’s Catholic Center at Texas A&M (the campus ministry I used to run). You might be amazed by that number, because it is a large class, but here is the real shocker - that is less than ½ of the students in the OCIA program! The class I spoke to started last spring (plus some other students joined after a summer intensive to catch them up). There is a larger class which met for the first time in a different room and they are at about 250 students, for a total of 420+ or so! The number of students could possibly go even higher. </description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8749806994466752235</guid><category>Center</category><title>Why Do Hammerhead Sharks Have A Hammerhead?</title><link>https://www.iflscience.com/why-do-hammerhead-sharks-have-a-hammerhead-80573</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Hammerhead sharks look like a fish that’s had its face flattened by a cartoon mallet and decided to just roll with it. They’re freaks of nature, haters might say, but these marine marvels are actually masters of adaptation, equipped with bizarre yet brilliant features that make them some of the ocean’s most efficient predators.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4373254214507187789</guid><category>Left</category><title>How the Sony Hawk-Eye system could revolutionize the NFL...</title><link>https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/new-nfl-sony-hawk-eye-measuring-system-124946587</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>A cutting-edge virtual measurement system will make its NFL debut when the 2025 season kicks off in less than two weeks, to help make the most precise ball placements the gridiron has ever seen.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-132035607743806947</guid><category>Center</category><title>Life After Death: Learning from Socrates...</title><link>https://life-craft.org/life-after-death-learning-from-socrates/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Socrates’s worldview never ceases to amaze me. As a Christian, I find the depth of his insight surprising, but more to the point, inspiring. If without divine revelation he discovered and lived out such convictions, how much more should I. There are several notable examples, and here I will consider one of his convictions about life after death. That some great pagans came to conclusions that are like or close to what God supernaturally revealed...</description></item> </channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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