The second Trump administration has been an eventful era for American Catholics, as tensions between the Vatican and the White House continued to make headlines over disagreements about the war in Ira...
04.23.2026 Yahoo.com and 10 sitesTop Republicans have invoked a centuries-old moral doctrine to defend the ongoing war against Iran . Last week, Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson — first and second in the preside...
04.26.2026 independent.co.uk , yahoo.com and 3 sites
In the same way that America’s shambolic war on Iran has turned Donald Trump into the most effective EV salesman the world has ever seen, so his attempts to defend said war have produced another unlik...
04.26.2026 theguardian.com , yahoo.com
Pope Leo XIV holds a baby at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Muxima in Muxima, Angola, April 19, 2026. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media) (OSV News) — As Pope Leo XIV pushed back against wha...
04.22.2026 Cathstan.org and 4 sites
Translation of headline: the pope’s interpretation constitutes a bad legal ruling. Moral Vacuity I am writing here about old news at this point, namely, remarks that Pope Leo XIV made last month on Palm Sunday. But I thought of those remarks anew as we now head into Yom Hatzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, and what it means for Jews to have an independent state today, particularly in light of centuries of persecution under the Catholic Church in Europe. The Catholic Church of today, in the wake o...
04.21.2026 Timesofisrael.com
Passiontide: Humanity’s Dignity is Restored Passiontide—covering the last two weeks of Lent from Passion Sunday (the Fifth Sunday) through Holy Week—is a season modern society would rather avoid. We p...
04.25.2026 Catholicstand.com
By D P Curtin, Public Discourse. The rule of law endures only where law acknowledges that the state is not the highest authority . The modern legal system often speaks as if the rule of law were purel...
04.27.2026 Anglicanmainstream.org
In a homily on Palm Sunday, Pope Leo XIV condemned violence and war and those who perpetuate it: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. ” He goes...
04.21.2026 Patheos.com
Easter Octave: Wounded Glory That Heals the World This article continues the meditation begun in “ Passiontide: Humanity’s Dignity is Restored. ” While Passiontide showed dignity purchased through hum...
04.26.2026 Catholicstand.com
Welcome to a new, quarterly column at Mere Orthodoxy: the Heron. The title of this column takes inspiration from Kirsten Sanders’s explanation of the title of her own “ Magpie ” column: Magpies are the rascals of the avian world. They gather shiny th...
04.24.2026 Mereorthodoxy.com