The Risk of Responding to God...
Within the structure and content of Sacred Scripture, there is a simple yet poignant formula that exists between God and man. As God speaks, man has the opportunity to respond. It can be summed up in the following phrase: As God reveals, we respond in faith, or revelation and the response of faith. The intimacy between how God chose to communicate to man...
Canon-Law Expert Edward Peters Is Third Faculty Member Fired by Detroit Archbishop...
Canon-law professor Edward Peters is the third faculty member at Detroit’s seminary to announce that he has been fired by Archbishop Edward Weisenburger in recent days. Peters, 68, had taught at Sacred Heart Major Seminary since 2005. “My Sacred Heart Major Seminary teaching contract was terminated by Abp. Weisenburger this week. I have retained counsel,” Peters wrote in a social-media post Friday night.
10 Things You Should Know About the Psalms...
The word “Psalm” comes from the Greek word for a “song” (psalmos), which is itself a translation of the Hebrew word for a song or melody. In Jewish tradition, however, the book of Psalms is known simply as the “Praises.” Here we’ll explore ten different facets of this extraordinary collection of hymns and prayers. First, the Psalms are split into five books. In their book A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament, Scripture scholars John Bergsma and Brant Pitre offer the following breakdown...
Can One Man Save A City?
This morning, I believe I should preach to you about the City of Sodom and the City of God, about the importance of Christ and the importance of Confession. In today’s first reading, Abraham intercedes with the Lord concerning the possible destruction of Sodom. Abraham asks: ‘Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty? Suppose there were fifty innocent people in the city...
The Prayer That Will Stop Worry From Running Your Life...
Have you ever noticed how worry can take up residence in your mind, setting up camp as commander‑in‑chief? But here’s the good news: You don’t have to live in a state of constant worry. When your biggest fears seize your attention, joy and focus are the first casualties, but prayer offers a frontline strategy to reclaim your mind. In this episode, we dive into the kind of prayer that doesn’t just scratch the surface, but actually roots out anxiety at its core.
Can AI Ever Understand Purpose?
I asked AI for a writing prompt, and AI told me to answer this question. “Can AI Ever Understand Purpose?” Thinking myself clever, I put the question right back to AI. You tell me. AI’s answer was that it “processes data, recognizes patterns, and generates responses based on algorithms, but it doesn’t ‘understand’ like humans.” So there. We're done. Well not quite. Then AI switched to first person and addressed me directly...
Ozzy Osbourne, Heavy Metal, and the Sound of Searching Souls...
I don’t romanticize the Ozzfest concerts I attended long ago. Far from it. Ozzy Osbourne and his bandmates were not role models, and a lot of what I saw and heard wasn’t good for the soul. But I also saw people — young, messy, wounded people — who were searching. That is where the Church founded by Jesus Christ belongs: not standing timidly far from the cross, but carrying light into those places with the clarity and love only Christ can offer.
‘This News Came as a Shock’: Ralph Martin Speaks Out on Detroit Seminary Firings...
The Chaotic, Crash-tastic Sport of Auto Polo from the 1910s...
This Sunday, Fellow Beggars, There is One Ask Our Father Never Refuses...
On the Way, On the Road, and Nuclear Winter...
The 10-Point Plan to Overcome Hyperactivity...
French Bishop Issues ‘Fraternal Correction’ Over ‘Appalling’ Spina Appointment...
Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger Than Protestant Bibles...
Why Our Priests Need Hope, and Community, Now More Than Ever...
Fake Pope Leo XIV: Coming Soon to YouTube?
Darwin, Design and Doctrine: How Catholics Engage Science 100 Years After Scopes...
Pope Leo XIV in Albano: Summer Is a Time to Savor Prayerful Moments With God...
‘Archbishop Harold Holmes’: Pop Art from Jack White, John C. Reilly, and Flannery O’Connor...
God loves repetitive prayer. The next time someone says otherwise, just show him this Psalm...
The Many Hidden Saints of Kent: Holy Men and Women Who Remain ‘Powerful Intercessors’...
This Sunday’s Gospel: Martha, Mary, Abraham — and Mass...
Pope Leo XIV Calls Cardinal Pizzaballa About Attack on Gaza Church...
‘You Are Gods’: The Catholic Doctrine of Divinization Is Making a Comeback...
Scott Hahn and Rob Corzine: Why the Old Testament Still Matters...
This Is the Heart of the Matter...
Lincoln Bishop James Conley Has the Care of 75,000 Catholics — and 10,000 Bees...
King Charles III’s Annual Swan Census Begins on the River Thames...
Pure Courage in the Christian Tradition: Knowing St. Kateri Tekakwitha and Her Living Legacy...
The Floods Still Speak: Baptism, Chaos, and the Saving Hand of God...
Here in Chiclayo, everybody’s got a story about Pope Leo XIV...
I’m down in Chiclayo, Peru, the city where Pope Leo XIV spent eight years as diocesan bishop. Down here, they still call him Monsignor Robert. And here in Chiclayo, everybody’s got a story about the pope. In fact, I came down here to learn those stories — because I’m convinced that if we want to understand the pope, we have to understand these cities and villages, and we have to know the people of Peru’s slums and pueblos.
A Castel Gandolfo Encounter With St. John Paul II...
The return of Pope Leo XIV to Castel Gandolfo was widely welcomed, even if only for a few weeks. The previous custom was that the popes would go there soon after the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul (June 29) and remain well into September. Leo may well return to that custom in future years. It was in that context that, 30 years ago, on July 26, 1995, I had one of the more memorable papal encounters of my life.
Listen to Pope Leo: Take a Summer Vacation...
Stop. Listen. Pray. Make time for God. A Nigerian priest was giving a weekday sermon at a suburban church in New Jersey. The kind of church, architecturally, that doesn’t do much to inspire meditation. Beauty can draw us out of ourselves and the busyness of our lives. But, with screens everywhere, we can easily miss it. Sometimes a baby must cry for us to realize what a gift we are in the presence of...
Warsaw Archbishop Asks Vatican to Defrock Priest Charged With the Killing of a Homeless Man...
Imposter Syndrome, the feeling that you’re a fraud and unworthy, is nothing new. Here’s how to roll with it...
Recently, I have been blessed to have some great professional moments, including leading priest assemblies and convocations for dioceses. Generally, I am the only lay person in the room. I’ve helped form Catholic professionals from across the country and internationally, had deep conversations with folks that are struggling and be able to help them. and been “in the room” for the planning of huge initiatives that are having a global impact...
‘The Wizard of Oz’ as You’ve Never Seen It Before...
‘A Voice Told Me Not to Be Afraid’: Sudden ALS Healing Declared 72nd Miracle of Lourdes...
Banana Boat S‘mores Are the Ultimate Campfire Dessert...
James Hitchcock, Church Historian and Popular Author and Professor, Dies at 87...
Despite rainy weather, Catholics in a Paraguayan town dress as birds to honor their patron saint...
Ralph Martin on His Firing: ‘This News Came as a Shock’...
Shake-Up in Detroit: New Archbishop Fires Ralph Martin and Eduardo Echeverria...
Two prominent theologians who critiqued what they saw as doctrinal ambiguity under the late Pope Francis have been fired from their longtime posts at the Archdiocese of Detroit’s major seminary by the local archbishop, the Register has confirmed. Archbishop Edward Weisenburger removed Ralph Martin and Eduardo Echeverria from their positions at Sacred Heart Major Seminary on July 23, both theologians told the Register separately.
Caught on the Kiss Cam: 8 Catholic Lessons From a Scandal That Went Viral...
“Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy,” Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin quipped at the reaction caught on the kiss cam at a July 16 concert in Massachusetts. His guess turned out to be correct after Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his HR chief, Kristin Cabot, went from happy to horrified to hiding when they were caught cuddling on camera.
The Risk of Making an Examination of Conscience...
Swiss Politician Faces Criminal Charges After Firing 20 Shots at Image of Mary and Jesus...
Asked and Answered: A Reflection on the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time...
Though we be “but dust and ashes,” we can presume to draw near and speak boldly to our Lord, as Abraham dares to do in this week’s First Reading. But even Abraham, the friend of God, our father in the faith (see Romans 4:12), did not know the intimacy that we know as children of Abraham, heirs of the blessings promised to his descendants. The mystery of prayer, as Jesus reveals to His disciples in this week’s Gospel...
Pope Leo XIV Marks 56th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing With Call to Buzz Aldrin...
Reformed and Renewed: US Catholic Seminaries Enter a ‘Golden Age’...
St. Thomas More’s Skull May Be Exhumed From Canterbury Vault for 500th Anniversary of Martyrdom...
The Ancient Temple’s Hidden ‘Bread of the Presence’ Reveals a Stunning Eucharistic Truth...
How St. Camillus Beat Addiction to Sin and Became a Servant of the Sick...
The Red Cross, Perverse Mercy, and a Crime Against Nature...
Mexico City Government Projects Pro-Abortion Images on Cathedral’s Façade...
Lord in the Ring? Catholicism and Bullfighting in Portugal...
Losing Sleep Over 'Educating' Our Children...
Pope Leo XIV Demands Ceasefire After Deadly Israeli Strike on Gaza’s Holy Family Catholic Church...
Weird ‘Yeti Blood Oath’ Prank Divides Denver’s St. John Vianney Seminary...
Pope Leo XIV’s Hometown of Dolton, Illinois, Buys His Childhood Home, Eyes Historic Landmark...
Can Your Brain Run Out of Memory?
Waiting on the Lord: A Reflection on the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time...
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The Complete List of Popes
- St. Peter (32-67)
- St. Linus (67-76)
- St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88)
- St. Clement I (88-97)
- St. Evaristus (97-105)
- St. Alexander I (105-115)
- St. Sixtus I (115-125)
- St. Telesphorus (125-136)
- St. Hyginus (136-140)
- St. Pius I (140-155)
- St. Anicetus (155-166)
- St. Soter (166-175)
- St. Eleutherius (175-189)
- St. Victor I (189-199)
- St. Zephyrinus (199-217)
- St. Callistus I (217-22)
- St. Urban I (222-30)
- St. Pontian (230-35)
- St. Anterus (235-36)
- St. Fabian (236-50)
- St. Cornelius (251-53)
- St. Lucius I (253-54)
- St. Stephen I (254-257)
- St. Sixtus II (257-258)
- St. Dionysius (260-268)
- St. Felix I (269-274)
- St. Eutychian (275-283)
- St. Caius (283-296)
- St. Marcellinus (296-304)
- St. Marcellus I (308-309)
- St. Eusebius (309 or 310)
- St. Miltiades (311-14)
- St. Sylvester I (314-35)
- St. Marcus (336)
- St. Julius I (337-52)
- Liberius (352-66)
- St. Damasus I (366-84)
- St. Siricius (384-99)
- St. Anastasius I (399-401)
- St. Innocent I (401-17)
- St. Zosimus (417-18)
- St. Boniface I (418-22)
- St. Celestine I (422-32)
- St. Sixtus III (432-40)
- St. Leo I (the Great) (440-61)
- St. Hilarius (461-68)
- St. Simplicius (468-83)
- St. Felix III (II) (483-92)
- St. Gelasius I (492-96)
- Anastasius II (496-98)
- St. Symmachus (498-514)
- St. Hormisdas (514-23)
- St. John I (523-26)
- St. Felix IV (III) (526-30)
- Boniface II (530-32)
- John II (533-35)
- St. Agapetus I (535-36)
- St. Silverius (536-37)
- Vigilius (537-55)
- Pelagius I (556-61)
- John III (561-74)
- Benedict I (575-79)
- Pelagius II (579-90)
- St. Gregory I (the Great) (590-604)
- Sabinian (604-606)
- Boniface III (607)
- St. Boniface IV (608-15)
- St. Deusdedit (Adeodatus I) (615-18)
- Boniface V (619-25)
- Honorius I (625-38)
- Severinus (640)
- John IV (640-42)
- Theodore I (642-49)
- St. Martin I (649-55)
- St. Eugene I (655-57)
- St. Vitalian (657-72)
- Adeodatus (II) (672-76)
- Donus (676-78)
- St. Agatho (678-81)
- St. Leo II (682-83)
- St. Benedict II (684-85)
- John V (685-86)
- Conon (686-87)
- St. Sergius I (687-701)
- John VI (701-05)
- John VII (705-07)
- Sisinnius (708)
- Constantine (708-15)
- St. Gregory II (715-31)
- St. Gregory III (731-41)
- St. Zachary (741-52)
- Stephen II (III) (752-57)
- St. Paul I (757-67)
- Stephen III (IV) (767-72)
- Adrian I (772-95)
- St. Leo III (795-816)
- Stephen IV (V) (816-17)
- St. Paschal I (817-24)
- Eugene II (824-27)
- Valentine (827)
- Gregory IV (827-44)
- Sergius II (844-47)
- St. Leo IV (847-55)
- Benedict III (855-58)
- St. Nicholas I (the Great) (858-67)
- Adrian II (867-72)
- John VIII (872-82)
- Marinus I (882-84)
- St. Adrian III (884-85)
- Stephen V (VI) (885-91)
- Formosus (891-96)
- Boniface VI (896)
- Stephen VI (VII) (896-97)
- Romanus (897)
- Theodore II (897)
- John IX (898-900)
- Benedict IV (900-03)
- Leo V (903)
- Sergius III (904-11)
- Anastasius III (911-13)
- Lando (913-14)
- John X (914-28)
- Leo VI (928)
- Stephen VIII (929-31)
- John XI (931-35)
- Leo VII (936-39)
- Stephen IX (939-42)
- Marinus II (942-46)
- Agapetus II (946-55)
- John XII (955-63)
- Leo VIII (963-64)
- Benedict V (964)
- John XIII (965-72)
- Benedict VI (973-74)
- Benedict VII (974-83)
- John XIV (983-84)
- John XV (985-96)
- Gregory V (996-99)
- Sylvester II (999-1003)
- John XVII (1003)
- John XVIII (1003-09)
- Sergius IV (1009-12)
- Benedict VIII (1012-24)
- John XIX (1024-32)
- Benedict IX (1032-45)
- Sylvester III (1045)
- Benedict IX (1045)
- Gregory VI (1045-46)
- Clement II (1046-47)
- Benedict IX (1047-48)
- Damasus II (1048)
- St. Leo IX (1049-54)
- Victor II (1055-57)
- Stephen X (1057-58)
- Nicholas II (1058-61)
- Alexander II (1061-73)
- St. Gregory VII (1073-85)
- Blessed Victor III (1086-87)
- Blessed Urban II (1088-99)
- Paschal II (1099-1118)
- Gelasius II (1118-19)
- Callistus II (1119-24)
- Honorius II (1124-30)
- Innocent II (1130-43)
- Celestine II (1143-44)
- Lucius II (1144-45)
- Blessed Eugene III (1145-53)
- Anastasius IV (1153-54)
- Adrian IV (1154-59)
- Alexander III (1159-81)
- Lucius III (1181-85)
- Urban III (1185-87)
- Gregory VIII (1187)
- Clement III (1187-91)
- Celestine III (1191-98)
- Innocent III (1198-1216)
- Honorius III (1216-27)
- Gregory IX (1227-41)
- Celestine IV (1241)
- Innocent IV (1243-54)
- Alexander IV (1254-61)
- Urban IV (1261-64)
- Clement IV (1265-68)
- Blessed Gregory X (1271-76)
- Blessed Innocent V (1276)
- Adrian V (1276)
- John XXI (1276-77)
- Nicholas III (1277-80)
- Martin IV (1281-85)
- Honorius IV (1285-87)
- Nicholas IV (1288-92)
- St. Celestine V (1294)
- Boniface VIII (1294-1303)
- Blessed Benedict XI (1303-04)
- Clement V (1305-14)
- John XXII (1316-34)
- Benedict XII (1334-42)
- Clement VI (1342-52)
- Innocent VI (1352-62)
- Blessed Urban V (1362-70)
- Gregory XI (1370-78)
- Urban VI (1378-89)
- Boniface IX (1389-1404)
- Innocent VII (1404-06)
- Gregory XII (1406-15)
- Martin V (1417-31)
- Eugene IV (1431-47)
- Nicholas V (1447-55)
- Callistus III (1455-58)
- Pius II (1458-64)
- Paul II (1464-71)
- Sixtus IV (1471-84)
- Innocent VIII (1484-92)
- Alexander VI (1492-1503)
- Pius III (1503)
- Julius II (1503-13)
- Leo X (1513-21)
- Adrian VI (1522-23)
- Clement VII (1523-34)
- Paul III (1534-49)
- Julius III (1550-55)
- Marcellus II (1555)
- Paul IV (1555-59)
- Pius IV (1559-65)
- St. Pius V (1566-72)
- Gregory XIII (1572-85)
- Sixtus V (1585-90)
- Urban VII (1590)
- Gregory XIV (1590-91)
- Innocent IX (1591)
- Clement VIII (1592-1605)
- Leo XI (1605)
- Paul V (1605-21)
- Gregory XV (1621-23)
- Urban VIII (1623-44)
- Innocent X (1644-55)
- Alexander VII (1655-67)
- Clement IX (1667-69)
- Clement X (1670-76)
- Blessed Innocent XI (1676-89)
- Alexander VIII (1689-91)
- Innocent XII (1691-1700)
- Clement XI (1700-21)
- Innocent XIII (1721-24)
- Benedict XIII (1724-30)
- Clement XII (1730-40)
- Benedict XIV (1740-58)
- Clement XIII (1758-69)
- Clement XIV (1769-74)
- Pius VI (1775-99)
- Pius VII (1800-23)
- Leo XII (1823-29)
- Pius VIII (1829-30)
- Gregory XVI (1831-46)
- Blessed Pius IX (1846-78)
- Leo XIII (1878-1903)
- St. Pius X (1903-14)
- Benedict XV (1914-22)
- Pius XI (1922-39)
- Pius XII (1939-58)
- St. John XXIII (1958-63)
- St. Paul VI (1963-78)
- John Paul I (1978)
- St. John Paul II (1978-2005)
- Benedict XVI (2005-2013)
- Francis (2013-2025)
- Leo XIV (2025—)
