I have been forgiven more than I can calculate.
And yet my memory for grievances is sharper than my memory for grace.
Pope Francis once compared resentment to a fly in summer. You swat it away. It returns. You swat again.
The work of mercy never finishes.
Pope Leo XIV told priests to stop using AI to write their homilies and to stop trying to become TikTok famous.
In 2001, the man who said it helped build one of the first websites for a major religious order.
Under Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic Church has been unified in its total opposition to the Trump-Vance Iran War.
Cardinal McElroy has declared the U.S. war in Iran "not morally legitimate" under Catholic doctrine — joining Cardinal Cupich and bishops across the country in a moral challenge to th White House.
Pope Leo XIV has called for peace four times in seven days.
His bishops are listening.
Fifteen years of political work, and the skill you develop fastest is knowing exactly how much truth a room can handle before it turns on you.
Jesus never learned that skill.
In today's Gospel, he riles up a deadly mob by telling the truth.
Where are we called to do the same?
The Trump-Netanyahu war has killed a Catholic priest.
Fr. Pierre el-Rahi told his parish three days before his death: "We carry only the weapons of peace."
An Israeli Merkava tank fired twice at the same home in Qlayaa. He ran toward the wounded after the first shell.
The second one killed him.
One hundred and fifty children are dead.
Their names will be read in Iranian mosques and schools for generations.
Pope Leo asked: “Would you imagine what a world without wars would be like?”
One hundred and fifty girls in Minab will never get to imagine anything again.
A Daily Wire host called Pope Leo XIV’s prayer for peace in Iran “girly nonsense” — and said the pope was wrong for “using Jesus” to make the case.
The pope’s actual words: “Would you imagine what a world without wars would be like?”
No Catholic can support Trump’s war in Iran. It’s illegal, immoral, and a total affront to our faith.
Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.
NEW: An NBC poll finds Pope Leo XIV and Stephen Colbert are the most popular figures in American public life.
Donald Trump, JD Vance, both parties, ICE, and AI are underwater.
A Catholic pope from Chicago is the most trusted man in the country.
Govern accordingly.
The only thing more original than original sin is God's grace.
The Samaritan woman came to the well looking for water. She walked away without the jar.
NEW: A close ally of Pope Leo XIV is accusing the Trump-Vance White House of turning war into entertainment.
Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich blasted a White House video celebrating U.S. strikes on Iran as “sickening,” warning that real deaths are being reduced to spectacle in the age of social media.
NEW: Pope Leo XIV spent the morning urging President Trump to end his war in Iran — for the fourth time this week — then celebrated Mass with altar girls at his side in a struggling Roman parish no pope has visited in forty years.
NEW: Pope Leo XIV spent the morning urging President Trump to end his war in Iran — for the fourth time this week — then celebrated Mass with altar girls at his side in a struggling Roman parish no pope has visited in forty years.
On International Women’s Day, Pope Leo XIV is flanked by two altar girls as he celebrates Mass.
When Rodrigo Duterte was waging war against his own population in the Philippines, Pope Francis sent one of its most experienced diplomats to Manila.
That diplomat was Archbishop Gabriele Caccia.
Now Pope Leo XIV has chosen him to be the papal envoy to the United States.
My biggest self-delusion is that I can earn love.
I rehearse my apologies. I draft my plans for self-improvement. I calculate what it will take to deserve love again — what penance, what performance, what proof of change.
I turn it into a project because that is the only language I've ever known.
I carry a card-size print of Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son — not for the son kneeling in the father’s arms, but for that older brother who will not go in.
That is the question Jesus leaves unanswered at the end of this parable: not just will you come home, but will you enter the feast?
No Catholic can support Trump’s war in Iran. It’s illegal, immoral, and a total affront to our faith.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
We build our national story around the builders. God builds his story around the ones the builders threw away.
The immigrant detained at the border. The mother working three jobs. The incarcerated man the system forgot.
These are the rejected stones. And the Gospel says they are the foundation
The question for Americans is whether we will have the courage to look at what our government has done and call it what it is.
Pope Leo asked today: “Would you imagine what a world without wars would be like?”
One hundred and fifty girls in Minab will never get to imagine anything again.
“I would like to address the powerful of the world with an ever-timely appeal: never again war!” — Pope Leo XIV
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Here’s the full story on the pope’s escalating criticism of President Trump’s Iran War — and the Vatican’s behind-the-scenes response.
“People are becoming more aware of the amount of money that ends up in the pockets of merchants of death. With that money, hospitals and schools could be built. Instead, those already built are being destroyed.” — Pope Leo XIV
In a new interview, Pope Leo XIV's top deputy is warning that President Trump’s strikes on Iran risk “setting the world ablaze.”
Three times in three days, Pope Leo XIV has rebuked Donald Trump's war in the Middle East. No pope has spoken this forcefully in a generation.
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“Would you imagine what a world without wars would be like?
“A world without the terror of approaching explosions, without rocket alarms shattering the silence of the night?
“Please join me this month in prayer for disarmament and peace. Let's pray and share with others.” — Pope Leo XIV
