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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-5100885127325891674</guid><category>Head</category><title>Eucharist Returns to Canterbury: Papal Nuncio Celebrates Historic Mass in England’s Ancient Catholic Heart...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265281/historic-mass-celebrated-by-papal-nuncio-at-anglican-cathedral-in-rare-event</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>For the first time in modern history, the apostolic nuncio to the United Kingdom has celebrated Mass in England’s most celebrated Anglican cathedral. On Monday, July 7, which marked the feast of the Translation of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía celebrated the holy sacrifice of the Mass at Canterbury Cathedral with hundreds in attendance, including the Vatican’s cricket team.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2088497459804099325</guid><category>Left</category><title>Priests of West Bank’s only remaining all-Christian town issue urgent appeal against Israeli settler violence...</title><link>https://catholicvote.org/priests-of-west-banks-only-remaining-all-christian-town-issue-urgent-appeal-against-israeli-settler-violence/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The three priests of Taybeh in the West Bank issued an urgent appeal for justice this week after Israeli settlers reportedly escalated their acts of violence and intimidation against Christians in the region’s only remaining all-Christian town. “We, the priests of the three churches of Taybeh — the Greek Orthodox Church, the Latin Church, and the Melkite Greek Catholic Church — raise our voices on behalf of the people of our town and our parishioners to strongly condemn the ongoing and grave series of attacks targeting Taybeh,” the three pastors wrote in a letter.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2474016373238306405</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Leo XIV Shares Message to Pilgrims at Historic Mass in Canterbury Cathedral...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/canterbury-catholic-mass-st-thomas-beckett-church-of-england</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Edward Pentin)</author><description>Catholic faithful packed Canterbury Cathedral on Monday evening for a historic Mass, complete with a papal blessing and the Eucharistic liturgy celebrated by the apostolic nuncio to honor St. Thomas Becket and the translation of his relics in 1220. Since at least the late 20th century, the Cathedral’s Anglican leaders have allowed the local Catholic parish of St. Thomas of Canterbury to celebrate the translation (transferal) of the relics every July 7 with a Mass at the high altar.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3933162483160201813</guid><category>Left</category><title>That’s Some Bad Fish Story – Spielberg’s “Jaws” Turns 50...</title><link>https://www.dominicanajournal.org/thats-one-bad-fish-story-spielbergs-jaws-turns-50/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>There’s nothing like a good fish tale. Man grappling with nature. The allure of the vast ocean. The earnest exaggerations of a man with skin sunburnt and leathered by time. And this summer one of our era’s biggest and boldest fish tales turns 50. Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, an adaptation of Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel of the same name, has now terrified beachgoers for five decades. And while the title typically conjures up images of bloodied shorelines, gripping dolly-zooms, and small-town woes...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3320824851873304941</guid><category>Center</category><title>We Don’t Just Choose Right or Wrong — Our Moral Choices Make Us Who We Are...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/07/10/truly-becoming-ourselves/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Human beings, having a rational nature, are free to choose between good and evil. This freedom constitutes, in the words of Pope Leo XIII, “the highest of natural endowments.” We are not only free to choose between good and evil, but we are also responsible for those choices. We are responsible for the intentions by which we act, for the actions themselves, and, to some degree, for the consequences of those actions...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8350114289978964247</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo XIV pens gracious letter — in Latin — to congratulate Cardinal Burke on 50 years of priestly ministry...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265263/pope-thanks-cardinal-burke-who-clashed-with-francis-for-50-years-of-priestly-ministry</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV has written a warm and detailed letter to Cardinal Raymond Burke, thanking the American cardinal for 50 years of priestly ministry, in a gesture that marks a shift in tone following years of tension between Burke and Pope Francis.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8926444407576579920</guid><category>Center</category><title>Camp Mystic, Texas Floods and Grieving for Lost Children...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/mcdonald-camp-mystic</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Thomas McDonald)</author><description>There is no emotional pain on earth greater than that of a parent who has lost a child. As we read the news of so many deaths from the Texas floods, those of the children hit particularly hard. That so many of them were attending a Christian camp is particularly troubling to many: If this is how God rewards innocent children gathered to praise his name, what does Christian faith even mean? There’s a great deal of theology about evil and suffering, but it is of little comfort in a moment like this...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6262177747001507581</guid><category>Left</category><title>When Protestants say Peter can't be ‘the rock,’ they have it exactly backwards...</title><link>https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/matthew-16-and-a-parallel-for-peter</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Jimmy Akin)</author><description>I grew up in the American South, and I was raised in a Protestant family. But when I was six or seven years old, my parents had some kind of disagreement with the elders of our church, and they stopped going. So after that, I was raised nominally Protestant, and we’d go to church only once or twice a year when we visited my grandparents. When I was a teenager, I was involved in the New Age Movement, but I broke with that when I turned 18.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3642853714904131268</guid><category>Center</category><title>A Divine Plan for Changing Diapers...</title><link>https://life-craft.org/a-divine-plan-for-changing-diapers/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (John Cuddeback)</author><description>There is always a reason for the way things are, even when this is not apparent. An easily missed aspect of the natural order of household life offers a standout example of this truth. In short, the things we must do to address our bodily needs offer a perfect context to address our higher needs too. What might seem ho-hum at first shows itself on closer examination to be breathtaking...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4594391481566088322</guid><category>Left</category><title>The Ascension vs. Human Composting...</title><link>https://www.denvercatholic.org/the-ascension-vs-human-composting</link><author>null@newadvent.org (George Weigel)</author><description>There are many reasons to regret the transfer of the Solemnity of the Ascension to the seventh Sunday of the Easter season. Among other things, the transfer shortens the Church’s time to reflect on this great feast, whose meaning has become ever more important in this cultural moment. What does the Ascension of the Lord mean? The Ascension means that humanity — the human nature assumed by the second Person of the Trinity at the Incarnation — has been incorporated into the life of God himself.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2635537567092551538</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Leo XIV Shares Message to Pilgrims at Historic Mass in Canterbury Cathedral...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/canterbury-catholic-mass-st-thomas-beckett-church-of-england</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Catholic faithful packed Canterbury Cathedral on Monday evening for a historic Mass, complete with a papal blessing and the Eucharistic liturgy celebrated by the apostolic nuncio to honor St. Thomas Becket and the translation of his relics in 1220. Since at least the late 20th century, the Cathedral’s Anglican leaders have allowed the local Catholic parish of St. Thomas of Canterbury to celebrate the translation (transferal) of the relics every July 7 with a Mass at the high altar. </description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8569222843057200398</guid><category>Left</category><title>Shocking Appointment: Priest Convicted of Raping 16-Year-Old Boy Under Spiritual Direction Named Chancellor by French Archbishop...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265253/toulouse-france-archbishop-names-rape-convicted-priest-to-chancellor</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The archbishop of Toulouse, France, has drawn fierce criticism for appointing a priest previously convicted of raping a 16-year-old boy to serve as diocesan chancellor, sparking outrage from victims’ advocates and the local Catholic community. Archbishop Guy de Kerimel named Father Dominique Spina as chancellor and episcopal delegate for marriages, effective Sept. 1, according to a decree published June 2 on the archdiocese’s website...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-9065849779178136546</guid><category>Center</category><title>32 Martyrs of Orange Guillotined in Roman Theater During French Revolution...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/grondelski-martyrs-of-orange</link><author>null@newadvent.org (John Grondelski)</author><description>America celebrates the Semiquincentennial of the United States in less than a year. The struggle of the United States for liberty was a defining feature of its national psychology, especially in its early years, which led to conflicted attitudes about the French Revolution that began in 1789. On the one hand, France had been an ally without whose help the young American Republic probably would not have wrested independence from the British...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1032416210104419146</guid><category>Left</category><title>What Pope Leo XIV’s Little-Seen Thesis Reveals About His Theology of Leadership...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/towell-leo-xiv-from-prior-to-pontiff</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Brendan Towell)</author><description>On May 17, just over a week after white smoke rose above St. Peter’s Square, I offered the first public analysis of Pope Leo XIV’s doctoral dissertation — five days before The New York Times published its own. Since then, interest in the text has only grown. Catholic educators, theologians and many friends — both lay and clerical — have all asked me the same question: What else is in the dissertation?</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8008981669171057680</guid><category>Center</category><title>ISS Astronaut Captures a Rare Phenomenon From Orbit — a Giant ‘Sprite’ Rising High Above a Thunderstorm...</title><link>https://www.space.com/stargazing/iss-astronaut-captures-a-rare-phenomenon-from-orbit-a-giant-sprite-above-a-thunderstorm</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>U.S. astronaut Nichole "Vapor" Ayers captured a spectacular view of a phenomenon known as a "sprite" blazing to life above an intense thunderstorm — and she did this while orbiting 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth aboard the International Space Station (ISS).</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6470647911115926758</guid><category>Left</category><title>The Powerful Puzzle at the Heart of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson’s ‘Teenage Symphony to God’...</title><link>https://tmattingly.substack.com/p/listening-for-the-divine-inside-brian</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Terry Mattingly)</author><description>I grew up near an ugly coast on the Texas-Louisiana border, where the beaches were defined by muddy, often dirty, water and swarms of mosquitoes. If the humid wind blew the wrong way, the pollution from nearby refineries was a nice touch.Thus, I have no memories of my friends listening to the Beach Boys. The local vibe was our own Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter and ZZ Top.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3553992675463025608</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Risk of Searching for Christ...</title><link>https://knowingisdoing.org/blog/risk-searching-christ</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Marlon De La Torre)</author><description>In St. Matthew’s Gospel, we encounter an immediate sense of the risk involved in following God. As a protagonist event, the temptation of Jesus in the desert reveals what will occur if you choose to follow the will of God. In the case of Jesus, the entire temptation sequence reveals the sins he will encounter throughout his journey to save the souls of humanity through his death on the Cross...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4653044920832753520</guid><category>Left</category><title>Catholic Evangelization 101: What is Conversion?</title><link>https://catholicmissionarydisciples.com/news/conversion</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Marcel LeJeune)</author><description>Have you ever actually read the entire terms of use for a new app on your phone? If so, did you understand everything in it? Even if you didn't, you probably still checked that you would “read and agree” to everything in the document. This kind of half-hearted consent is similar to what happens for a lot of Catholics every Sunday. When we get to the creed, many Catholics aren’t really paying attention to what their words mean...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1495332379496707730</guid><category>Center</category><title>What We Must Do: A Reflection on the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time...</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/what-we-must-do-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-fifteenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Scott Hahn)</author><description>We are to love God and our neighbor with all the strength of our being, as the scholar of the Law answers Jesus in this week’s Gospel. This command is nothing remote or mysterious—it’s already written in our hearts, in the book of Sacred Scripture. “You have only to carry it out,” Moses says in this week’s First Reading. Jesus tells His interrogator the same thing: “Do this and you will live.” The scholar, however, wants to know where he can draw the line. That’s the motive behind his question...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8973530591297111834</guid><category>Left</category><title>Sunday Is Not the Sabbath...</title><link>https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/should-christians-keep-the-sabbath-or-celebrate-the-lords-day</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Tim Staples)</author><description>One of the most appealing teachings of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination is their insistence that Christians must obey the Ten Commandments . . . all ten of them. They rightly expose the errant thinking among many Protestant Christian sects that claims, “We don’t have to keep the Ten Commandments for salvation anymore.” Of course, Jesus has a reminder for us...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-169061760844416943</guid><category>Center</category><title>The 11 Best Affordable Family Vacations in the US...</title><link>https://www.cntraveler.com/story/affordable-family-friendly-vacation-spots-in-the-us</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Planning a family vacation that checks all the boxes—fun, memorable, and affordable—can feel like a tall order. Between different interests, varying age ranges, and budgeting for meals, lodging, and entertainment, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed before you’ve even packed a bag. But good news: creating lasting family memories doesn’t have to come with a hefty price tag. Across the US, there are plenty of wallet-friendly destinations that offer big fun without draining your savings.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6087145262644677347</guid><category>Left</category><title>During WWII, Peter To Rot Chose Martyrdom Over Polygamy and Silence...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/saints-and-art-peter-to-rot</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>One of the problems in talking about art in relation to modern saints like Peter To Rot (1912-1945) is that there often isn’t any. Yes, being painted could be a vanity project for some, but once upon a time, people had their portraits made because there were no photographs. One can hardly imagine what they might have thought of the modern phenomenon called the “selfie.” Peter To Rot has, however, been memorialized in a somewhat neglected modern art form: the postage stamp. He’s appeared on two series of stamps from his native Papua New Guinea, the large island north of Australia.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8056277719733173687</guid><category>Center</category><title>‘They Had Their Rosaries’: Two Sisters, Catholic School Students, Lost in Texas Flood Remembered for Their Faith and Kindness...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265221/2-sisters-catholic-school-students-lost-in-texas-flood-remembered-for-faith-and-kindness</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Two sisters who attended St. Rita Catholic School in Dallas were among the victims of the Texas Hill Country flash floods that have devastated parts of the state, the school confirmed in a statement on Saturday. Blair Harber, 13, and Brooke Harber, 11, were vacationing with their parents and grandparents on the Guadalupe River near Hunt, Texas. The flash flood raised the river more than 22 feet in half an hour in the early morning hours of July 4, dislodging and carrying away their cabin, in which they were staying with their grandparents.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-397424613832135568</guid><category>Left</category><title>Russia’s ‘Sacrilegious War’ Shatters Orthodox Unity, Prompts Response From Pope Leo...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/russia-s-sacrilegious-war</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Fr. Raymond de Souza)</author><description>In the history of ecumenism, this June 28 was most unusual. The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople — primus sine paribus (first without equals) among Orthodox Christians — customarily sends a delegation to Rome for the patronal feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The Holy See reciprocates in November for the feast of St. Andrew, patron of Constantinople. Pope Leo XIV welcomed the Orthodox delegation in the Apostolic Palace, assuring them...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6488216373248361137</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Leo XIV Arrives in Castel Gandolfo for Summer Vacation...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265209/pope-leo-xiv-arrives-in-castel-gandolfo-for-summer-vacation</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Pope Leo XIV was welcomed by well-wishers upon his arrival to his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Sunday. Crowds of people standing behind barriers greeted the Holy Father, taking photos and shouting “Viva Papa!” as he walked toward the papal palace located southeast of Rome.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3610455782242291163</guid><category>Left</category><title>Catholics Mobilize Aid After Historic Flash Floods Devastate Texas Hill Country...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265203/catholics-mobilize-aid-response-after-historic-flash-floods-devastate-texas-hill-country</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Catholics are responding with prayers and aid after record-breaking flash floods in central Texas devastated communities along the area’s rivers and killed at least 27 people. The flash flooding began in the early hours of July 4. Heavy rainfall filled the creeks that emptied into the several rivers that wind through the normally arid hills known as the Texas Hill Country, located north and west of San Antonio and Austin.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-9080877779810515681</guid><category>Center</category><title>Defunding Planned Parenthood Is Only a Baby Step...</title><link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/defunding-planned-parenthood-is-only-a-baby-step/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Kathryn Jean Lopez)</author><description>It’s a historic moment — defunding Planned Parenthood, now that Congress has sent the “Big, Beautiful” mess to the White House. But also make no mistake that this defunding of Planned Parenthood is a baby step. There is so much more to do to build an authentic culture of life in the United States. I’m grateful that Congress kept any defunding in it in the end...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5379068551903810918</guid><category>Left</category><title>Why Was Moses Not Allowed to Enter the Promised Land?</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/why-was-moses-not-allowed-to-enter-the-promised-land?mc_cid=a1b5da8d15&amp;mc_eid=76031b1787</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Clement Harrold)</author><description>Since ancient times, Jewish and Christian interpreters alike have puzzled over God’s decision to prevent Moses from entering the Promised Land. The immediate context for the decision is found in Numbers 20. It’s the fortieth and final year of the Exodus, and the Israelites have once again run out of water in the wilderness. Faced with this calamity, the people begin complaining against Moses and Aaron, saying they wish they had stayed in Egypt.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6661754861396886733</guid><category>Center</category><title>How many new priests are there in Europe?</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/how-many-new-priests-are-there-in</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Luke Coppen)</author><description>How many new Catholic priests will be ordained in Europe in 2025? It’s a simple question, but difficult to answer, given the continent consists of more than 40 nations, with varying attitudes to record-keeping. Does the answer matter? Yes, because it would be one way of taking the spiritual temperature of Europe, which remains the geographical center of the Catholic Church, despite long ceasing to be its demographic center.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-325088598434946834</guid><category>Left</category><title>Racing With the Devil...</title><link>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/07/racing-devil-joseph-pearce.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Joseph Pearce)</author><description>I have sought since my conversion to use the gifts that God has given me to glorify Him and to bring souls to Him, in contrast to the way that I had previously used those same gifts to glorify hatred and to lead souls astray. This remains the rationale behind my vocation as a Catholic writer. I echo the words of G. K. Chesterton who said that he had been received into the Catholic Church in order to have his sins forgiven...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2048974626249988774</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope Leo XIV Returns to 400-Year-Old Papal Tradition of Summer Retreat at Castel Gandolfo...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265193/pope-leo-xiv-moves-to-the-second-vatican-city-castel-gandolfo</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Hannah Brockhaus)</author><description>Two months into his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV will leave Rome to spend two weeks on a pontifical estate in the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo, 18 miles south of the city, and sometimes known as the “second Vatican City.” The pontiff will stay on the hilltop Vatican property “for a period of rest” from the afternoon of July 6 to the afternoon of July 20, the Vatican announced last month...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2268031384841727547</guid><category>Left</category><title>6 Things You Should Know About This Sunday’s Readings...</title><link>https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-jesus-delivers-personal-instructions-for-the-mission-of-life</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Tom Hoopes)</author><description>The story of Jesus sending his disciples is related to the story of Jerusalem nursing her children. Jesus sends out the 72 disciples with very specific instructions. “Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals; and greet no one along the way,” he says. “Whatever town you enter and they welcome you, eat what is set before you, cure the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God is at hand for you.’” These Christians are being asked to depend entirely on God...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7100531172816635874</guid><category>Center</category><title>Tragedy at Rattlesnake Falls: Opus Dei Mourns the June 18 Drowning Deaths of Three of Its Members...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/news/in-memoriam-opus-dei-hikers</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Matthew McDonald)</author><description>The hikers could just barely hear Val Creus’ cries of distress over the roar of Rattlesnake Falls. Moments before, the 59-year-old had jumped off a ledge near the scenic cascade in the northern California wilderness for a refreshing plunge. Now, somewhere in the frigid water 20 feet below them, he was in trouble. Matt Schoenecker didn’t hesitate. An avid biker and climber who also was a skilled high-platform diver...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4907843449314612027</guid><category>Left</category><title>God’s Answer to the Pain of Adolescence...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/mills-gods-answer-to-pain-of-adolescence</link><author>null@newadvent.org (David Mills)</author><description>“I wouldn’t go through that again for anything,” said a friend a few stools down at our local place. She and the bartender had been discussing their teenage years. They’d grown up in the same town about 10 years apart, one in a difficult situation, the other a star athlete, but they both had stories. “Yes,” I answered my friend. I hadn’t thought about my teenage years in a long time, but once I did...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-9072456561065924657</guid><category>Center</category><title>Vatican Spokesman Downplays Leaked Documents on Traditional Latin Mass...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265151/vatican-downplays-leaked-documents-on-latin-mass</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>A Vatican spokesman has played down the significance of recently leaked Vatican documents that appear to cast doubt on Pope Francis’ rationale for restricting the Latin Mass, calling the documents “partial and incomplete.” The documents appear to show that bishops had a more favorable outlook on the Traditional Latin Mass than Pope Francis suggested when he issued controversial restrictions on its celebration in 2021.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5750423319457914271</guid><category>Left</category><title>What I Discovered When 10 Nuns Came Over for Dinner...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/lukas-nuns-day</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>My mother and father regarded priests and nuns as individuals who sacrificed much in their lives, and secular Catholics like us should show our gratitude to them in a tangible way. Since we had invited our beloved pastor, Father John Dronzek, for several dinners, my parents announced that they would invite the 10 Polish American Franciscan nuns who taught at St. Michael’s Elementary and Junior High School in West Lynn, Massachusetts.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4748979694539081080</guid><category>Center</category><title>Canonical Trial Advances for Rupnik as Vatican Appoints External Judges...</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/cardinal-fernandez-rupnik-judges</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Vatican doctrinal chief Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández announced Thursday that a panel of judges for the canonical trial of mosaic artist Fr. Marko Rupnik has been chosen. Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, said July 3 that the panel was “made up of judges who are all independent and external to our dicastery.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2048395033974803564</guid><category>Left</category><title>How many new priests are there in Europe?</title><link>https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/how-many-new-priests-are-there-in</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>How many new Catholic priests will be ordained in Europe in 2025? It’s a simple question, but difficult to answer, given the continent consists of more than 40 nations, with varying attitudes to record-keeping. Does the answer matter? Yes, because it would be one way of taking the spiritual temperature of Europe, which remains the geographical center of the Catholic Church, despite long ceasing to be its demographic center.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2978864572533427044</guid><category>Center</category><title>Message for the 10th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (July 2, 2025)...</title><link>https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2025/07/02/250702e.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Pope Leo XIV)</author><description>Dear Brothers and Sisters! The theme of this World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, chosen by our beloved Pope Francis, is “Seeds of Peace and Hope”. On the tenth anniversary of the establishment of this Day of Prayer, which coincided with the publication of the EncyclicalLaudato Si’, we find ourselves celebrating the present Jubilee as“Pilgrims of Hope.”This year’s theme thus appears most timely...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7080658093480434887</guid><category>Left</category><title>We Are Improbable, But Here We Are...</title><link>https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/we-are-improbable-but-here-we-are/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>If someone places their trust in science, then they must also accept at least one miracle. That miracle is the moment when everything began. According to current cosmological understanding, the entire universe—space, time, matter, and energy—originated from a singularity approximately 13.8 billion years ago. There was no physical cause, no preceding event, and no natural mechanism. Everything emerged from what appears to be nothing.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8923479523243902342</guid><category>Center</category><title>Killed for Being Christian: The Personal Stories of All 22 Catholic Ugandan Martyrs...</title><link>https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-ugandan-martyrs/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Imagine longing so deeply for the Eucharist that you would hike nearly fifty miles each way to go to Mass every Sunday, traveling through dense forests, fighting off wild animals, and crossing multiple rivers to do it. Imagine being so eager to die for Jesus that you would actually joke with the one who was sentencing you to death. Imagine having friends so kind and so loving that when they called you out on your sin you would leave both the women you were sleeping with and live in poverty while providing for their needs.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7409882466434836441</guid><category>Left</category><title>Quiet high schooler paints portraits of entire class to reconnect before graduating...</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/07/quiet-high-schooler-paints-portraits-of.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>According to many of her senior classmates here at Waunakee High School in Wisconsin, 18-year-old Molly Schafer was a loner. But before graduation, she leaned on her artistic skills to reconnect and learned an important lesson in the process. Steve Hartman has the story ‘On the Road’...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3253539760292986999</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Tomb of St. Peter Explained...</title><link>http://blog.newadvent.org/2025/07/the-tomb-of-st-peter-explained.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Beneath layers of history in the Vatican City lies the tomb of St. Peter...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5566443626155500579</guid><category>Left</category><title>Next year is the 250th birthday of the US — and “We, the People” need to get our act together...</title><link>https://www.denvercatholic.org/independence-day-249</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In the twelve months leading up to next year’s American semiquincentennial, the tale will frequently be told of Benjamin Franklin’s encounter with Philadelphia matron Elizabeth Willing Powel, who asked, as Franklin left the Constitutional Convention: “Well, Doctor, what have we got — a republic or a monarchy?” To which the 81-year-old sage replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” That caveat remains as true today as when Franklin engraved it in the national memory on September 17, 1787. </description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6756101204132873653</guid><category>Center</category><title>‘Never Despair of God’s Mercy’: A Rule for Families, Not Just Monks...</title><link>https://life-craft.org/to-become-a-witness-to-mercy-today/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Home is our workshop of life, and we are artisans. We discover, pattern and forge–for spouses, friends, children and others–the key features of a human life. In an unforgettable line, St. Benedict enunciates a key to the whole project: “Never despair of God’s mercy.” In his Rule, one of the most influential documents ever written, St. Benedict offers in the fourth chapter a lengthy list...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1392653810033188149</guid><category>Left</category><title>St. Otto, Whose Feast Day Is July 2, United the Fractured Faith of a Fractured Europe...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/saints-and-art-st-otto</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>St. Otto of Bamberg, whose feast is observed July 2 in the United States, is also honored in a special way on two local calendars in Europe: June 30 in Germany and July 1 in some dioceses of northwestern Poland. Historically, Germany and Poland have not been the best of friends, so how is it that St. Otto features on both their calendars? Two big reasons: the investiture controversy in what is now Germany and conversions in today’s Poland.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5256505458437941861</guid><category>Center</category><title>Saints and popes have lauded the benefits of trade. So where do tariffs fit in?</title><link>https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-churchs-dim-view-of-tariffs</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In recent months, the word “tariff” seems to be on everyone’s lips. Those in favor of tariffs insist that the survival of America necessitates huge trade restrictions. Those in favor of free trade, on the other hand, often hold that widespread tariffs will inevitably lead to recession or even the next depression, as global supply chains delink across the globe.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7529110339511851289</guid><category>Left</category><title>Leaked Vatican Report Challenges Rationale for Traditionis Custodes, Shows Most Bishops Opposed New Restrictions...</title><link>https://dianemontagna.substack.com/p/exclusive-official-vatican-report</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>New evidence has come to light that exposes major cracks in the foundation of Traditionis Custodes, Pope Francis’ 2021 decree that restricted the traditional Roman liturgy. This journalist has obtained the Vatican’s overall assessment of the consultation of bishops that was said to have “prompted” Pope Francis to revoke Summorum Pontificum, Benedict XVI’s 2007 apostolic letter liberalizing the vetus ordo, more commonly known as the “Traditional Latin Mass” and sacraments.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8456583271796859483</guid><category>Center</category><title>Obergefell Must Go...</title><link>https://firstthings.com/obergefell-must-go/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Robert P. George)</author><description>Last week marked ten years since the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges—the case that invalidated state laws defining marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife and required states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex partners. The decision had a stunning impact on American public opinion. Same-sex marriage, once rejected by a solid majority of Americans, became acceptable, for a while at least...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3591041243466537406</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Accepts Resignation of Archbishop Rodi, Names St. Louis Auxiliary as Successor...</title><link>https://www.osvnews.com/pope-accepts-resignation-of-archbishop-rodi-names-st-louis-auxiliary-as-successor/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama, will welcome a new shepherd, as Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi and appointed Auxiliary Bishop Mark S. Rivituso of St. Louis as his successor. The resignation and appointment were announced in Washington July 1 by Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the U.S. Archbishop Rodi, 76, had submitted his resignation to the pope in March 2024 upon reaching his 75th birthday, as required by canon law.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1545313182732302338</guid><category>Center</category><title>England is at war with itself — it’s essentially a Catholic kingdom, but increasingly ruled by a Death Cult...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/07/01/englands-national-religion-is-a-death-cult/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>For those not living in these Isles, it’s very difficult to imagine what it’s like here. Depression, bordering on despair, is almost palpable and crops up everywhere. Recently, I got chatting to a stranger in a pub, and mentioned that I was soon to attend the citizenship ceremony of a friend who had immigrated from Eastern Europe. “Why would anyone in their right mind want to join this country?” the chap remarked. “That’s like climbing aboard a sinking ship.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-455389096540934418</guid><category>Left</category><title>Jeopardy! contestant wins thanks to wildest Final Jeopardy coincidence...</title><link>https://ftw.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/pop-culture/2025/06/25/jeopardy-controversy-final-family-folger/84351776007/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>I wouldn't label this a Jeopardy! controversy at all. It's just a crazy coincidence, one that producers and others could never have foreseen.In a recent episode, contestants were given the Final Jeopardy clue of "Collections." Here's the clue: In 1896 the Vassar-educated wife of this man wrote, "Thousands of dollars may be paid for a copy of Shakespeare."</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-366514701189621225</guid><category>Center</category><title>The Blood-Curdling Permian Monsters That Ruled the Earth Before Dinosaurs...</title><link>https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250624-the-bloodcurdling-permian-monsters-that-ruled-the-earth-before-dinosaurs</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by Hollywood. The two animals circled each other, both assessing their rival's robust, hairless body. With sabre-teeth like steak knives, piercing claws and skin as thick as a rhino's, they snapped their jaws open nearly 90 degrees – and launched into battle. From the right-hand side of one animal, the other's teeth crunched down from above...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1241713113883275974</guid><category>Left</category><title>Solidarity: The Path Between Nationalism and Globalism...</title><link>https://www.denvercatholic.org/solidarity-the-path-between-nationalism-and-globalism</link><author>null@newadvent.org (R. Jared Staudt)</author><description>We are one human family, yet we are born as members of a particular nation. Christians are reborn as members of Christ’s Mystical Body that unites believers worldwide. Given these bonds, we might wonder if it’s always better for nations to cooperate more closely to reflect global unity. At first glance, the answer could come back, “Of course, why not?” Indeed, the Church’s mission does promote greater unity...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-6177228854050380233</guid><category>Center</category><title>Woman Attacks Toddler With Pepper Spray During Mass in Brazil...</title><link>https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-americas/2025/06/woman-attacks-toddler-with-pepper-spray-during-mass-in-brazil</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>A woman attacked a 2-year-old girl and her parents with pepper spray during Mass on Jun. 22 after allegedly being annoyed by the child’s behavior.The case happened in the church of Nossa Senhora do Desterro (Our Lady of Exile) in Jundiaí, a city on the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2734572914277803305</guid><category>Left</category><title>What we learned about Pope Leo through the Knights of Malta...</title><link>https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/what-we-learned-about-pope-leo-through-knights-malta/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Jeff Mirus)</author><description>Pope Leo offered a striking message to the Knights of Malta on the Solemnity of Saint John the Baptist, who is the Order’s patron. The Pope expressed what is already becoming a hallmark of his pontificate, that is, an emphasis on the central and foundational duty of the followers of Christ to proclaim the Gospel. Thus Pope Leo continued to stress the primary obligation of the Christian, which is the obedience of faith to Jesus Christ.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-792831089449025697</guid><category>Center</category><title>What Should a Good Homily Look Like?</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/what-should-a-good-homily-look-like</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In his 2013 apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium (EG), Pope Francis bewailed the fact that both priests and laypeople “suffer because of homilies: the laity from having to listen to them and the clergy from having to preach them!” (135). The Holy Father went on to characterize this situation as “sad,” noting that the homily “can actually be an intense and happy experience of the Spirit, a consoling encounter with God’s word, a constant source of renewal and growth” (ibid.). This raises the question of what a good homily ought to look like...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5489963033278398820</guid><category>Left</category><title>Harvest Time: A Reflection on the Upcoming 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time...</title><link>https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/harvest-time-scott-hahn-reflects-on-the-fourteenth-sunday-in-ordinary-time</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Jesus has a vision in this week’s Gospel: Satan falling like lightning from the sky, the enemy vanquished by the missionary preaching of His Church. Sent out by Jesus to begin gathering the nations into the harvest of divine judgment (see Isaiah 27:12–13; Joel 4:13), the seventy are a sign of the continuing mission of the Church. Carrying out the work of the seventy, the Church proclaims the coming of God’s kingdom. She offers His blessings of peace and mercy to every household on earth...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-8954609415316053744</guid><category>Center</category><title>Deacons play a special role in the new evangelization of marriage...</title><link>https://www.the-deacon.com/2025/06/15/witnesses-of-fidelity/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>On Oct. 2, 1974, Pope St. Paul VI said that the world “listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses” (Address to the Members of the Council for the Laity). Deacons are called to serve as evangelists and teachers of married couples and families. Most deacons share the good news about marriage and the family by their witness. Whether a deacon is married or celibate, he can offer an exemplary witness of diakonia and the significance of the call to the married vocation.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2074750912473454940</guid><category>Left</category><title>The Nazis who wouldn't tell the truth about themselves...</title><link>https://www.oursundayvisitor.com/the-nazis-who-wouldnt-tell-the-truth-about-themselves/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The prison psychologist for the German prisoners at the Nuremberg trials asked Alfred Rosenberg “whether apart from all of the legal considerations he did not have some misgivings about his antisemitism.” Rosenberg, whom the psychologist called the “chief Nazi philosopher,” had served as Reichsminister for the Eastern Occupied Territories, where he oversaw atrocities, including the Holocaust, as a matter of course.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-3335694125425053931</guid><category>Center</category><title>A Handful of Heretics: How Arius and Others Besmirched the Church’s Glory...</title><link>https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/06/handful-heretics-primacy-loving-david-torkington.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>In the fourth century the God-given plan that Jesus introduced to lead people back to share in the glory of God to all eternity came tumbling down. This was because God’s Plan completely depended on Christ, not just to introduce it but to become the go-between with a human and a divine nature, bonded inseparably together in what came to be called the “hypostatic union”. His human love was absolutely crucial as it was that love...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4027447149162187460</guid><category>Left</category><title>Bring Out the Shovels...</title><link>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/06/29/bring-out-the-shovels/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Anthony Esolen)</author><description>I am a restorationist. When Donatello committed himself to learning from ancient Greek and Roman statuary, he had to dig things up. More than a millennium of dilapidation and sediment had left much of ancient Rome buried under the dirt. Say the word “Renaissance,” and your mind may turn toward the glory of Venice upon the waters, or Michelangelo dreaming under the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, or Palestrina directing the polyphony of his papal choir...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7344791681366095288</guid><category>Center</category><title>Strengthening the Seal: Yet Another Diocese Returns Confirmation to Younger Children, Where It Belongs...</title><link>https://knowingisdoing.org/blog/understanding-reality-sacrament-confirmation</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>There is a distinctive pause the moment a parent witnesses their child's Baptism. This momentary pause of pure awe and wonder is quite natural because it reveals the intimate love a parent has for their child. It expresses a desire for their child to receive everything necessary to strengthen the awe and wonder that are witnessed by both parents, the child, and the community...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7861865410249348237</guid><category>Left</category><title>Vatican unveils last of restored Raphael Rooms after 10-year cleaning that yielded new discoveries...</title><link>https://apnews.com/article/raphael-rooms-restoration-vatican-museums-frescoes-renaissance-df8f19adfb4e33cad525887d493f4bd5</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that in some ways rival the Sistine Chapel as the peak of high Renaissance artistry. A decadelong project to clean and restore the largest of the four Raphael Rooms uncovered a novel mural painting technique that the superstar Renaissance painter and architect began but never completed...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4866683696104841922</guid><category>Center</category><title>Voyage teams up with the U.S. Army to honor 250 years of chaplains...</title><link>https://voyagecomics.com/2025/06/30/voyage-teams-up-with-the-u-s-army-to-honor-250-years-of-chaplains/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (Philip Kosloski)</author><description>When the Continental Congress appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, Washington made it a priority to ensure his troops had access to religious chaplains. The Chaplain Corps was approved by the Continental Congress on July 29, 1775, and this year marks the 250th anniversary of that founding...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4643040274596946903</guid><category>Left</category><title>‘Outrageous’: British MP Criticizes Catholic Priest for Refusing Communion Over Assisted Suicide Vote...</title><link>https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/265077/british-mp-chris-coghlan-criticizes-catholic-priest-father-ian-vane-for-refusing-holy-communion-over-bill</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>A British politician has publicly criticized his parish priest for refusing to give him holy Communion after he voted in favor of the United Kingdom’s assisted dying bill.Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament Chris Coghlan took to social media on Sunday and reportedly complained to Bishop Richard Moth of Arundel and Brighton, describing his treatment as “outrageous.”</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-2379826131212581930</guid><category>Center</category><title>God Consecrated Rome’s First Fruits in the Blood of the Martyrs...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/saints-and-art-first-roman-martyrs</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>It’s not coincidental that today’s optional memorial follows the Solemnity of Peter and Paul. Sts. Peter and Paul stand at the head of the first Christian martyrs: the Pope crucified upside down on Vatican Hill, the preacher to the nations beheaded in Rome. As we saw from Paul’s journeys, Christianity spread quickly in the Roman Empire, especially in the cities...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-4984517549530483257</guid><category>Left</category><title>Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus for Sts. Peter and Paul: ‘May Unity Be Forged in Witness and Forgiveness’...</title><link>https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-06/pope-leo-xiv-angelus-feast-sts-peter-paul-christian-unity.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>On the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Pope Leo XIV greeted pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square for the Angelus prayer and reflected on Christian unity, conversion, and the witness of martyrdom that binds the Church in a deep and often hidden communion. The Pope began by recalling the roots of the Church of Rome, founded on the testimony and blood of the Apostles Peter and Paul...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7295112830429982365</guid><category>Center</category><title>5 Ways the 2025 Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul Speaks to US Catholics...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/five-ways-peter-paul-us-catholics</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>The Solemnity of St. Peter and St. Paul — the princes of the apostles and the patrons of the city of Rome — will take on a special character this year, especially for American Catholics.The feast falls on Sunday, so while it is always observed with a papal Mass in Rome, every parish will also keep the feast, as it outranks a Sunday in Ordinary Time. In fact, it caps off four consecutive Sunday “solemnities” this June: Pentecost, Most Holy Trinity, Corpus Christi and Peter and Paul.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-9166060684888658044</guid><category>Left</category><title>Homily on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (June 29, 2025)...</title><link>https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/homilies/2025/documents/20250629-omelia-pallio.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Today we celebrate two brothers in faith, Peter and Paul, whom we honour as pillars of the Church and venerate as patrons of the diocese and city of Rome. The story of these two Apostles has much to say to us, the community of the Lord’s disciples, as we make our pilgrim way in today’s world. Upon reflection, I would like to emphasize two specific aspects of their faith: ecclesial communion and the vitality of faith.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-7690636279873936857</guid><category>Center</category><title>Pope to Ukrainian Greek Catholics: 'Your Faith Is Being Put to the Test’...</title><link>https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-06/pope-to-ukrainian-greek-catholics-your-faith-put-to-a-test.html</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Even if your faith is being put to the test, trust in God, Pope Leo XIV told Ukrainian Greek Catholics on Saturday in the Vatican. The Pope began saying he extends a heartfelt greeting to the dear faithful of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, who have come to the tomb of the Apostle Peter on the occasion of the Jubilee Year, and greeting, in particular, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyč, the bishops, priests, consecrated men and women, and lay faithful.</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-5977275730655159128</guid><category>Left</category><title>The Immaculate Heart of Mary Treasures the Mysteries of Christ...</title><link>https://www.ncregister.com/blog/saints-and-art-immaculate-heart-of-mary</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Modern Mariology tends to emphasize Our Lady as the model disciple. That’s not a wholly novel thing, inasmuch as she described herself as “handmaid of the Lord,” something Catholics have long affirmed in the Angelus prayer. But it is a change of focus from Mary’s unique status to Mary as a model for us. That’s why it’s no coincidence that the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is immediately followed by the optional memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...</description></item> <item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:newadvent.org,1999:blog-3972000218521616682.post-1385628285183214171</guid><category>Center</category><title>How Do Clouds Get Their Shapes?</title><link>https://www.popsci.com/science/how-do-clouds-get-their-shapes/</link><author>null@newadvent.org (null)</author><description>Take a look at the sky on any given day and you’ll likely see clouds of different shapes — some look like cotton balls, others are fine and feathery or tall and imposing. But what gives a cloud its distinct appearance? The answer lies in a mix of factors. </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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