Statement of the Diocese of Fall River Regarding Monsignor Roger J. Landry...
The Way We Were, the Waiting Game, and Out of Time...
What Newman Thought a University Was For: Science, Theology and the Unity of Truth...
Pope Leo XIV formally declared St. John Henry Newman the 38th Doctor of the Church on November 1, 2025, during the Jubilee of the World of Education in St. Peter’s Square. The occasion for the declaration was most fitting. Leo’s great predecessors St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI had both commended Newman’s teaching on education in the highest terms...
NJ teen set on priesthood had vision of Virgin Mary before his tumor miraculously shrank...
What the Earliest Church Fathers Taught About Apostolic Succession...
Apostolic succession is the idea that Christ’s apostles appointed successor bishops who in turn appointed successor bishops of their own—all the way down to the present day. These successors to the apostles are responsible for both the governance of the Church and the preservation of the sacraments. A significant majority of the world’s Christians...
Why September 9 Is the Most Common Birthday...
The German Bishops’ Outcry; the US Bishops’ Silence...
The German Catholic bishops have voiced their distaste for the AfD Party, and Christian leaders joined in a statement promising to “closely observe and critically monitor” the policies of a potential AfD government in the Saxony-Anhalt state. “We will not look away,” vowed the leaders of several German Christian groups, including Bishop Heinrich Wilmer, the president of the German episcopal conference.
Pope Leo XIV Calls for Peace in Ukraine After Russian Attacks...
I’m a Student at Yale. On Campus Interest in Catholicism Is Higher Than Ever...
What You Say, One China, and Federal Fantasies...
The Real Legacy Of Gloria Steinem...
Glowing obituaries are pouring in after the death of feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who was born in 1934. The Associated Press called her “a potent voice of US feminism,” and the Washington Post heralded her as the “lodestar of the modern women’s movement.” It is hard to overstate her influence upon Western women.
A Great Teacher and a Welcome Manifesto...
Reluctant as I am to fiddle with the U.S. Constitution, I’m willing to consider an amendment banning any elementary school from opening before Labor Day. That’s the way things were when I was a boy in Baltimore and could no more imagine being in school before Labor Day than I could imagine rooting for the New York Yankees...
Wendell Berry helped me (and countless others) discover deep desires we didn’t know we had...
When someone I meet mentions with affection the name Wendell Berry, my heart immediately thrills that we will have much in common, much to talk about. I realize now that no other contemporary name has such an effect on me. This might seem odd, especially given that Berry, who died on Monday, was in no normal sense a ‘religious’ writer...
Sixth Chinese Bishop Ordained Under Pope Leo XIV...
On 9/11, Priests, Firefighters and Other Heroes Ran — Toward the Burning Towers...
The story of 9/11, to me, is more about the ordinary virtues of everyday Catholic heroes than it is about terrorism or anything else. Actually a coincidence put the National Catholic Register in an extremely strong position to cover September 11, 2001. And it changed my approach to the way I did my job. I first wrote for the National Catholic Register...
25 Years After 9/11: How Heroic Faith Inspired Conversion and Hope in Christ...
Her dad performed abortions. Now she’s a Sister of Life...
I interviewed Sr. Mariae Agnus Dei, SV, about prayer and the beauty of Religious Life for our CORE Confirmation program. I was blown away when I learned her back story. Her dad had been an OB-GYN. He had performed abortions. In an interview with her own community’s magazine, she recounted a drive home from a hike with her dad, her senior year of high school.
Catholics, Can We Discuss the ‘Nod of Peace’?
On Aug. 11, 2026, tens of thousands of people attended a sold-out “Pope Hat Night” game hosted by the Chicago White Sox, capitalizing on the connection to the team’s most famous fan who happens to be the successor of Peter now presiding over the universal Church. During the fifth inning, led by Chicago priest Father Tom Hurley, everyone took part in a stadium-wide “sign of peace.”
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The Numbers Game, Buy Now, and the Boys Online...
Playing the game is fun when you play well. It’s more fun when you win. But being part of a genuine team is the real juice. The name on the front of the jersey matters more than the one on the back ever will. But the number on the back is where the two meet. That number assigns you a context, a belonging, an identity as part of a whole. It puts you within an order, literally and metaphorically.
When Are You Obliged to Correct Someone?
Many years ago, I was involved in an organization promoting the reverent celebration of the Sacred Liturgy and the accurate translation of the Mass from Latin into English. My Catholic organization sent copies of our monthly bulletin to several American seminaries. In one of the seminaries, a young seminarian happily distributed the material. However, a bishop from a distant diocese disagreed with the publication and intervened with the rector...
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This Sunday, Stop Silently Watching Sinners Wound Themselves...
The Vatican and Beijing’s Long-Term Bets Against Each Other...
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Leo XIV: A New Diplomacy?
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher’s trip to Moscow marked a definitive paradigm shift in the Holy See’s diplomacy regarding the situation in Ukraine. We cannot know what was said behind closed doors during the bilateral meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. However, a good deal can be gleaned from the opening remarks from both the Holy See and the Russian delegation...
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Sensational Report from China: A New Split in the Church?
China Pressured a US Catholic Group to Censor Its Keynote Speaker. They Complied...
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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—)